Hi everyone,

My name is Cleveland, I'm a composer and sound designer at Bledsoe Audio and I joined this forum because I've been researching on how to create an audio only game. My idea was to create a game that is enjoyable by everyone, even the hardcore gamers, and I've been researching and putting together ideas to see if my grand vision can be pulled off. I'll probably be posting in the forum in the near future to have a discussion about my idea, but I wanted to introduce myself first. I'll eventually be looking for a team of people to help me once this idea takes off, so I'm hoping to meet some people here that can push me in the right direction to help develop a truly unique auditory experience!

Hi,

Not just people who play, but also people who develop.

Hi, welcome to audiogames.net~ Hope you enjoy your stay here.

There are a few devs scattered around here (me included), so even there you won't be disappointed.
I'm always glad to help, and I'm also interested in seeing what happens!

Hi.
I'm Francois Marais and I'm living in South Africa.  I'm totally blind.
I was born on 24 September 1994.
The languages that I can speak is English and Afrikaans.

I've been on the forum for quite some time, but I've only introdused myself now.
I like to play audio games and to talk with people.

Francois

Hello,
my name is Jakub. I am from the Czech republic. I have played a lot of audio games. For example Showdown, Topspeed from 1 to 3, etc.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm Holly and although I just registered here I've been aware of the site for a long time and find your database of games really useful. I prefer audio games to ones played online though I have tried a few of them and enjoyed them. I'm pretty good at getting myself killed when I'm playing so maybe talking to other gamers will help!

Hi Chris and welcome to the forum.

Your certainly in the right place, and first person games work extremely well in audio, indeed over the last year we've seen out first ever audio first person multiplayer fps zombie shooter in the game swamp.

While there are certainly fairly easy ways to represent informtion in fp games, probably the best thing to do is to simply start playing an fp audio game yourself, ---- indeed if your a fan of audio drama and atmosphere you might well appreciate this, as for me (who has limited vision and played games on consoles like the nes), it was the atmosphere in audio games that persuaded me they were worth while.

I'd therefore suggest perhaps you check out soem games in the database for ideas, particularly shades of doom, swamp, Gma tank commander, sarah, and terraformers. Shades of doom indeed is something of a land mark title in audio, and though it is a commercial game, there is a free demo available, ditto with sarah.

Terraformers was originally commercial but now is free, and is an example of a lovely sounding fp adventure puzzle game with less of an action feeling than the others.

what amazes me about audio, is that certain genres and styles of games actually work better! in audio than visually. For instance, packman in audio is a first person style game (though you can only make ninety degree turns), and thus requires far more memorization of the maze, your position, and a different approach to handling ghosts, indeed running into a ghost is much more startling.

Pinball is another thing that differs a lot in audio, particularly when it comes to extra minnigames and random sounds, and fully exploring the table.

thus, while audio games are at the moment really developed and played primarily by visually impared people, this is something of a shame, and it's great to see someone taking a more general interest in the field.

Hi guys!
I'm Songkran!
But mostly I will use my nick name as a Bee!
Because Bee it was my real nick name though and also easy to remember as well.
I'm come from the land of smile  wich is known as Thailand.
I think only me that from Thailand that quite post so many comment at the audio game forum.
I've got experienced to play with so many audio game things.
But the game that make me register myself with the audio game forum it was swamp.
Because swamp it was useing a new style of how to play that I've never experience before.
By the way I'm so happy to be part of the audio game member forum.
I learn so many thing from you guys a lot.
For myself, I'm totally blind.
I can speak english japanese and Thai.
Again it was very nice to know you all

Best!
Bee!

Welcome to the forum Evangelosz, we're glad to have you with us. 

Hello, everyone. My name isn't really Lenard, but i go by either that or LenardBR on the net.

I live in the United states. I have some vision issues, but i am near sighted so i can read and see computer screens fairly well. I haven't played many audio games but i greatly enjoy the ones I have played so far.
I would play more, but i normally play them with my blind friends, and they all own windows, and I have a Mac. If anyone knows any good games that are for both mac and windows, please send me a message.

Hi everyone,

I'm Esker, one of the administrators/builders from a MUD called Materia Magica. I noticed there's been a fair amount of discussion about the game here and also a few names I recognize, so I joined up to figure out what people did and didn't like about it so we can improve the experience for sightimpaired players. I'll probably be lurking around, learning.

hello i'm slipknotenraged. my real name though is Jamie. i like a whole host of games such as terraformers or the muds.
not big on the fantasy muds though