[games_access] another quick introduction

[Kestrell]

Hi, listers

My name is Alicia Verlager, although I mostly go by my username/nickname of 
Kestrell.

I am a blind blogger and independent media scholar, and a 2006 graduate of 
MIT's Comparative Media Studies masters program.

I was a tester for Eitan's AudiOdyssey game, and I am hoping to find more 
opportunities to participate in increasing game accessibility, particularly 
in virtual worlds such as Second Life.

Kestrell
http://kestrell.livejournal.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eelke Folmer" <eelke.folmer at gmail.com>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [games_access] A quick introduction


> Hi Bryan,
>
> I read your post on the games access mailinglist.
>
> Would you be willing to participate in evaluation our blind accessible
> client for secondlife?
>
> Cheers Eelke
>
> On 01/03/2008, Bryan <b-peterson at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>   Well some of you probably know me if you're subscribed to the Audyssey
>> list. But for those who aren't, my name's Brya Peterson. I'm not 
>> currently
>> an accessible game dev, but since it's an interest that's slowly grabbed 
>> my
>> attention over the years and still refuses to let go of it again, I 
>> thought
>> this would be a good place to come. As I've said before, though I'm not a
>> developer I would like to try at some point to learn to develop games 
>> that
>> are accessible at least to the blind, being a member of that community
>> myself. Unfortunately, the kinds of games I'd like to see developed seem 
>> to
>> be quite beyond the scope of our urrent list of devs. Not necessarily in
>> terms of their skills but certainly beyond what any of them seems to be
>> willing to attempt. My problem though is finding materials that can even
>> begin to make the concepts of programing begin to make sense to me. Sure 
>> I
>> wouldn't be developing a truly accessible audio RPG anytime soon, but 
>> that's
>> one of my goals. But anyway, I thought I'd write and introduce myself 
>> since
>> I just joined the list not long ago.
>> Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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>
>
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