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Eternally hollow and board!
Hopefully your not, and even if you are perhaps this fount of newsiousness will releave the situation, --- even if our subject today is perpetual emptiness and flat wooditude....
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Simon says follow danZ!
Oncemore, sad, dysmal and generally miserable news is on the horizon, so tissues at the ready....
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Audio Ping Pong
Blogger Mike McCracken (who incidentally claims he is not a blogger) recently put together a fun little project using an arduino, headphones and an accellerometer. It is an audio-only game of Ping Pong... with a difference. The accellerometer and arduino are mounted on the headphones, enabling the player to control the game with his or her head movements! When you put on the headphones, you hear a sound that is cycling through a sequence indicating its approach....
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Dark sticky substance discovered on GMA web site
Wait, no no, not that sort of mud......
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Play tag with your balls escaping out of the windows!
yes, the mixed up, unrelated random titles of doom are back. Because of a recent bout of highly persistant and infexious laziness on the part of yours truly, we've got a metaphorical bunch of almost entirely unrelated new audio games and updates for you, hastily picked from the great metaphorical tree of accessible gameiusness, sliced, diced, and hopefully tasting nice!...
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Escape of Revolving Mobile Archers
Okay got a couple updates here regarding BrailleSoft and Sound RTS....
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Experimental Audio Games 2008
It's that time of the year again! Groups of game design students of the Utrecht School of the Arts have developed 13 small audio game prototypes! Try them out and let the developers know what you think in the forum! You can find all the experimental audio games, as well as many others from the previous years, in the Experimental Audio Games Section. Have fun!
Read more [0
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Kick -em in the golems!
Thanks to Forumite Bladestorm360, another brouser based, screen reader friendly gem of a game has been fished out of the vast, stormy and shark wridden sea we know as the internet....
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Western monopolies!
If your a comunist, run for cover right now, sinse todays newsage is all about the ruthless and money grabbing world of big economical business, and screwing every last atom of prophit from your poor denuded workers so you can put your rivals out of business and then laugh unpleasantly when they come knocking on your offices big shiny door begging you for a job, ---- ahnm, power mad millionaire fantasies aside, we have two game developements to report tthis afternoon....
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Article: The sense and nonsense of haptic technology.
Some people might remember a few weeks ago, a user calling himself Haggis asking searching questions about force feedback and rumble in audio games for a general paper on Haptic technology in gaming. well, his research is now finished, and highlights some most intreaguing facts about haptic devices, and their possibilities for use in many sorts of game, ---- accessible and otherwise, as well as some of the harsh truths about why such technology hasn't been exploited in audio games thus far. you can Read the finished article here...
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Hit or mississippi?
I've got two completely contrasting but equally newsworthy items on this mornings menue, ---- in fact all they have in common is that their both about audio games, and both being reported by yours truly....
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Inflicting Audeasy issue 53!
And Yay, the prophecy hath come to pass, and behold, as with the tri-monthly time before there doth appear a great fount of bounty, goodness and generally nice stuff from Mr. and Mrs. Schamerhorn!...
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PacDown
Another game from BrailleSoft for the Pac Mate, in the form of Showdown now version 1.1. Visit the link and go to their Pac Mate page for more info, with versions available for both the slightly older QX/BX4.1 and the new Omni models.
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Dearly departed DanZ games
It's always a very sad business when an audio games developer decides that for whatever reason they can't continue providing us with the constant stream of earhole insertable gameage which we all require on a very frequent basis to stop our heads exploding and our brains turning to mushroom clouds....
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MMMm! ---- Trivial old Irish roasted golfballs!
This morning we will be taking only the finest parts of the lepricorn, adding just a pinch of trivia, grinding in a couple of home grown country golfballs and serving with a fine, rich mint jelly, ---- or perhaps just discussing some interesting new offerings in accessible gameage, ---- let's just start and see where this goes....
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Z Works Turtles?
It would seem Liam is considering making a plugin for ZMud, probably one of the better known mud clients out there. This news brought to you by Audyssey, as ever....
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You sunk my Pac Mate!
Seems the guys over at BrailleSoft have released a selection of games for both pocket PC and smartphones, though the Pocket PC ones are designed for the Pac Mate so I can't vouch for how they work on other systems. The smartphone ones also seem likely to be for Windows mobile Smartphone edition, the page doesn't specify so I've shot off an email suggesting a clarification....
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Liam! man of mystery?
It would seem that the dark synister Liam, the shaddowy and mysterious power behind Lworks, in a fit of late night happiness has let some information slip about some sort of upcoming project or other. What it is? we don't know, when it will hit? we don't know, all we do know is that you better pin your ears to This intreaguing sound clip before Liam changes his mind again and sends the infobots out to iliminate anyone who might have any idea of what terrible torments ----- mmm I mean accessible games, he's got brewing up in his games developement lab of cunningness!...
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I'm gona fire your ace!
Well, from that extremely subtle hint, long standing forumites might guess that X-site interactive have made good on their promise to resurrect the turn based guns and whipping fest that was acefire....
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the Mota way for Monti!
Oncemore this afternoon I have more updates to serve out reguarding the unpleasantly undead aztec emperor and his tempestuous temples. the news is that while the temple hunting will continue, the services of his imperial montiness, Montizuma the first, and the Montizuma's revenge game produced by parker brothers in 1984 are no longer required!...
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In developement, living, free hyenas!
much newsily things to discuss today, particularly on the up and coming developement front, and particularly related to the freedom of certain African cainine scavengers, ---- and maybe other nasty creatures as well. Don't panic, I'm not about to announce the opening of a certain park where certain extinct animals have been genetically engeneerd for your pleasure and terror, ---- I'm talking about many and various developements in the field of ear hole insertable gameage!...
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Mmmmmm Harlies!
Just as you thought the sprinfield racetrack was safe, the large and brainless man known as Homer simpson is back, with yet more harlies to explode and busses to jump....
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Quake Jedi Update This Is
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authors and adventurer's wanted!
We have two textulous offerings for this morning,both of the input and output variety, ---- so i hope you've got all the correct jacks installed....
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shoot da 1, shoot da 2, shoot da 3, shoot da me!
Yes, Da gang of fire and their hellish hellicopters are back, in the third beta release of Rs games short action game, ---- confusingly titled shoot da me, (why it's not shoot da them I don't know)....
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Vista improved pretty good games!
Yet more Devs are forcing their games to undergo vistration, and the people at Vip gameszone are no exception. Beach volleyball, funny bowling, Galaxy ranger, Lords of the galaxy, super tenis and super football have all recieved a shiny new upgrade to version 3, meaning that they'll behave themselves when windows vista or windows Xp 64 marches onto the seen....
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Scraping bugs from the 9 toes of Monti!
We have a fine pair of game updates for you today which should hopefully shed some light into the grim and grizly month of january, and cheer up the post christmas gloom and doom....
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IEZA: a Framework for Game Audio
Today Gamasutra.com, the worlds leading game development website since 1997, has published an article that we (Sander and Richard of AudioGames.net) wrote as part of our PhD study of game audio. It is titled "IEZA: A Framework For Game Audio" and in it we present a structure for sound in games. You can find a short introduction through this link:...
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Agrip 0.3.0
The release version is here, check it out at
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A Macky new year!
for the first post of 2008, phil vlasac, he of the gorgious Harry potter gameage and long long loooong games list has set up a page especially for macksessable games....
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Vistration of Monkeys! news from Draconis.
Just a quick note from the Draconis gang, all their pinball titles, --- esp pinball classic, and extreme, and the party pack, have all received a seasonal wash down with the updating fluid, which will decrease their hostility to windows vista and all who operate there in....
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Tick to toe in the ultimate smuggle!
with the season of piece and nicety well and truly overwhelming us, what better time for a hole set of lovely free new games to torment and challenge you. though of course, if there is ever a bad time to be tormented and challenged by freshly evolving gameage I haven't heard of it....
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Agripping announcement
Agrip just announced the release of Audio Quake 0.3.0RC3, bringing them one step closer to their planned goals of handing the project over to the community....
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Montizuma 8 my neighbors!
Yes, his imperial montiness, ruler of many nasties, lord of the flaming dungeon is stil on the return, now in the eighth phase of betament. thomas Ward is stepping things up with even more bugs sent to that big windows installation in the sky, but best of all, the emperors dungeon is growing like nobody's business, with six out of a planned eleven levels ready and waiting to challenge you....
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violence!
Usually when coming up with these posty things, I try and rack my brains for a title that somes up all the multitude of gameage I'm wittering on about. But today, we've got a hole load of updates to report, and all of them involve enough guns, explosions, war, and assorted property damage to make Arnold Schwarzenegger terminate with extreme jealousy!...
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Learning words is very rice!
Salaticious verbiage from your amicable host upon this optimistic time, despite the less than temperate or balmy clime of this most benighted of seasons. Today we have a bifocation of auditory delectatious engagements which will ----- mmmm, ---- er, ---- embiggen the, --- ahm, ---- omnigeneral ---- er, gooditude of vocabularious----- A pox upon my lack of cromulant words!...
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Montizuma is back! Beta 7 alchemically appears!
I bet your now thinking "oh Yeah right, yet another Beta version of Thom ward's side scrolling treasure grabbing audio game with a couple of new features, ---- just like weve seen before"...
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Hot off the press, audeasy issue 52
As wearwolves often say, it's that time of the month again, ---- or rather the three months, as Mr. Ron Schamerhorn brings us the 52nd issue of the web's only magazine devoted entirely to earhole based gaming....
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Springfield news on speeding record!
Welcome to channel 6 news, I'm dark Brockman. Our top local story in springfield this morning is a local man's attempt to burn blubber! Long time springfield resident Homer simpson has announced his plans to attempt to jump a specially modified Harley davison motorbike over a record number of school busses, ----- in this reporter's jaded opinion, we're looking at the worst bussed up this town has ever seen in it's 18 year long history of Simpson induced insanity!...
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Phil Vlasak and the deathly patches, ---- and more!
yes, the biggest, nastiest, and most recent patchment of phil Vlasak's fantastic Sarah game fulfill's all appropriate prophecies by apparating streight onto your harddrives....
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News (2000-2006)
Audio Game Maker Delayed Untill Further Notice: Audio Game Maker Delayed Untill Further Notice (January 31, 2007)
Audio Game Maker possibly delayed?: Due to a large fire, the beta of Audio Game Maker could be delayed... (January 25, 2007)
Blind Mans Bluff, Star Trek Final Conflict, Monty trailer, Torrent: (December 9, 2006)
Holiday Game Sales: Holiday Game Sales (November 26, 2006)
Judgment Day Release Information: Judgement Day, game for blind, to be released in December 2006 (November 17, 2006)
Lack Of News: Lack of News - But Checkout http://www.audiogamemaker.com (November 15, 2006)
Forum Whooha: Today the 300th forum user joined! (October 25, 2006)
BG Boggle 1.0: Boggle For The Blind (October 4, 2006)
Tiflo 21: Tiflo 21, BlackJack For The Blind (September 16, 2006)
Audio Game Maker: game building environment for the blind: The Bartiméus Accessibility foundation has announced the development of Audio Game Maker, an application which enables visually impaired people to make their own computer games. (September 11, 2006)
Accessible Hangman Flash Games?: Accessible Hangman Flash Games? (August 30, 2006)
Moosic Update: Update on Moosic - a blind accessible computer platform game (August 30, 2006)
Review of Sound Voyager: Hands On Review of Sound Voyager (August 12, 2006)
Update on Nintendo Audio Games!: We have updated the information concerning the Sound Voyager audio games developed by Nintendo! (August 6, 2006)
Moosic - open source accessible platform game: Moosic is an open source platform game which is accessible for visually impaired gamers (August 5, 2006)
Nintendo Develops Games For The Blind!: Nintendo has developed seven mini audio games (August 5, 2006)
16 free experimental Audio Games!: 16 free experimental audio game prototypes in the playcenter... (August 4, 2006)
Audio reviews and Broken Links: More updates on accessible games for the blind website! (July 30, 2006)
Games Games Games: More News About Games For The Blind, Accessible Games and Game Accessibility! (July 29, 2006)
DonationCoder.com Accessible Games Programming Contest: DonationCoder.com Accessible Games Programming Contest (July 18, 2006)
Descent into Madness: Students of North Carolina develop a new computer game for the blind: Descent into Madness (June 21, 2006)
MonstersGame: MonstersGame - a browser based game that is accessible for visually impaired players too! (June 6, 2006)
Judgement Day: New accessible game for the blind: Judgement Day (June 4, 2006)
Lords of the Galaxy and Superdogs Bone Hunt: Two new accessible computer games for the blind - Lords of the Galaxy and Superdogs Bone Hunt (June 3, 2006)
Audio Review Section and Game Accessibility website!: New section on audio game review podcasts and a new website on game accessibility! (May 1, 2006)
In The Pit: In The Pit - Experimental game uses only sound! (April 16, 2006)
G-Spot: G-Spot (April 13, 2006)
Database Fix: We fixed the database (March 30, 2006)
BreakOut for the Blind - Wrecking Ball: Break Out for the Blind - Wrecking Ball (March 14, 2006)
Light Locator: Light Locator (March 12, 2006)
Rail Racer Trailer and GDC: Rail Racer Trailer and GDC (March 12, 2006)
Quick Game Building Article: uick Game Building Article (March 5, 2006)
USA Games acquires Alchemy Games: USA Games acquires Alchemy Games (March 2, 2006)
Montezuma Cheat, Rail Racer, Goalball One on One and article: Montezuma Cheat, Rail Racer, Goalball One on One and article (March 2, 2006)
AudioGames seeks gamers confessions...: If you want game developers to take you *SERIOUS*, write down your gaming experiences and wishes and we will present them to the game developers at the conference! (February 21, 2006)
AudioGames.net (re)launches accessible Sudoku for the blind: AudioGames.net (re)launches accessible Sudoku for the blind (February 13, 2006)
Draconis Entertainment releases Soundoku!: Draconis Entertainment releases Soundoku! (February 10, 2006)
Top Speed 2 Mods: Top Speed 2 Mods (February 9, 2006)
AudioGames.net back online after spam-attack: AudioGames.net back online after spam-attack (February 8, 2006)
AudioGames.net launches blind-accessible Sudoku!: AudioGames.net launches blind-accessible Sudoku! (February 2, 2006)
TopSpeed 2 Released!: TopSpeed 2 Released! (January 30, 2006)
Montezuma's Revenge Demo: Montezuma's Revenge Demo (January 27, 2006)
Moved forum!: We moved the forum to the audiogames.net server! (January 26, 2006)
Submit game is down: The submit a game function is temporary down. (January 25, 2006)
Happy New Year: Happy New Year (January 20, 2006)
Forum update: Today we updated the forum.... (January 13, 2006)
World Aids Day: World Aids Day (December 2, 2005)
Dynaman Grid Creator: Dynaman Grid Creator (December 1, 2005)
Drive and Samsung: Drive download online again and Samsung into Game Accessibility (November 30, 2005)
Shades of Doom 1.2: Shades of Doom 1.2 (November 27, 2005)
LWorks Arcade Volume 1: LWorks Arcade Volume 1 (November 27, 2005)
Draconis Entertainment and Space Invaders for the Blind: Draconis Entertainment and Space Invaders for the Blind (November 26, 2005)
New Section: AudioGames.net PlayCenter!: New Section: AudioGames.net PlayCenter! (November 15, 2005)
Treasure Hunt MOD: Treasure Hunt MOD (November 15, 2005)
Pong - Das Hörspiel: "Blind Pong For The Sighted" (November 14, 2005)
Enemy Attack version 2: Enemy Attack version 2 (November 5, 2005)
More Draconis Entertainment news: More Draconis Entertainment news (November 2, 2005)
Introducing Draconis Entertainment: Introducing Draconis Entertainment (November 2, 2005)
Shades of Doom 1.20 Guide: Shades of Doom 1.20 Guide (October 31, 2005)
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Shades of Doom Public Beta 1.2: Shades of Doom Public Beta 1.2 (October 17, 2005)
Goalball One on One: Goalball One on One (October 15, 2005)
Tic Tac Toe and Toodle Tiles: Tic Tac Toe and Toodle Tiles (October 6, 2005)
Star Wars Jedi Strike, Pipe Contest and Troopanum: Star Wars Jedi Strike, Pipe Contest and Troopanum (September 30, 2005)
LoneWolf Mission 14 Audio Walkthrough: LoneWolf Mission 14 Audio Walkthrough (September 25, 2005)
New Article on Accessible Gaming: New Article on Accessible Gaming (September 20, 2005)
Mudsplat and Lone Wolf Audio Walkthrough: Mudsplat and Lone Wolf Audio Walkthrough (August 31, 2005)
Harry Potter board for Winpoly: Harry Potter board for Winpoly (August 15, 2005)
Sonic Mine Detonator MOD: Phil Vlasak created the Sonic Mine Detonator MOD for Sonic Zoom (August 13, 2005)
The Last Crusade, RPG Engine and Interactive Fiction Archive: The Last Crusade, RPG Engine and Interactive Fiction Archive (August 12, 2005)
Sonic Zoom: Sonic Zoom (August 10, 2005)
Beat The Bots Cheat: Beat The Bots Cheat (August 10, 2005)
Fixing Links: Fixing Links (August 10, 2005)
Blind-Puzzlers List, Händler und Halunken and OGame: Blind-Puzzlers List, Händler und Halunken and OGame (August 10, 2005)
New Audio Game Mods: New Audio Game Mods (July 24, 2005)
Mod Problems: Problems with receiving mods! (July 17, 2005)
Barrierefreie Spiele: This German languaged article is about game accessibility and audio games. (July 16, 2005)
Submit your MODS: Submit your MODS (July 10, 2005)
Game Accessibility Article: Kevin Bierre, member of the Game Accessibility Special Interest group, has published an article about game accessibility on GamaSutra.com (July 7, 2005)
Closing of XLStudiosSI: Closing of XLStudiosSI (July 6, 2005)
EPX and Resources!: Adora Entertainment has released a follow-up to first pinball game for the blind called ESP Pinball Xtreme (EPX)! (July 5, 2005)
Live8: Live8 (July 2, 2005)
All In Play Poker Party!: This Friday (the 24th) All In Play is holding the biggest accessible online poker tournament ever. (June 22, 2005)
Research? Contact Us!: Research? Contact Us! (June 22, 2005)
Another DIGRA paper!: We have added another DIGRA paper to our Articles section! (June 21, 2005)
DIGRA papers in the Articles section!: We have added two papers concerning audio games and game accessibility to our Articles section! (June 21, 2005)
Super football!: Super football, a new audio game by VIP Gameszone! (June 21, 2005)
BBBeat, Duckblaster 1.1, Super Deekout and more!: BBBeat, Duckblaster 1.1, Super Deekout and more! (June 21, 2005)
RSS: We updated the RSS-feed! (June 17, 2005)
Dutch Article on Game Accessibility: Dutch Article on Game Accessibility (June 17, 2005)
Game List Updated: Game List Updated (June 17, 2005)
Enemy Attack: Enemy Attack (June 16, 2005)
Audiotrailer for PBX: Audiotrailer for PBX (June 13, 2005)
Shades Of Doom Guide: Shades Of Doom Guide (June 13, 2005)
Audyssey Magazine and Michael Feir: Audyssey Magazine and Michael Feir (June 13, 2005)
Shooting Hoops...: Shooting Hoops... (June 7, 2005)
New Server: New Server (April 2, 2005)
Code Factory games added: Code Factory games added (March 28, 2005)
Mueckenjagd: Mueckenjagd (March 22, 2005)
Mississippi: Mississippi (March 22, 2005)
Audyssey Magazine Issues: Audyssey Magazine Issues (March 21, 2005)
Four Articles on Game Audio Design: Four Articles on Game Audio Design (March 20, 2005)
Braille Twister: Braille Twister (March 20, 2005)
DIGRA 2005 International Conference: DIGRA 2005 International Conference (March 15, 2005)
Computer games can make you go blind!: Computer games can make you go blind! (March 14, 2005)
The Blind Fragging The Blind: The Blind Fragging The Blind (March 14, 2005)
Forum Changes: Forum Changes (March 11, 2005)
Star Trek Final Conflict Alfa 4: Star Trek Final Conflict Alfa 4 (March 10, 2005)
LoneWolf Soundpacks: LoneWolf Soundpacks (March 10, 2005)
Chillingham at Game On and ifbyphone: Chillingham at Game On and ifbyphone (March 10, 2005)
Termite Torpedo: Termite Torpedo (March 10, 2005)
Kitchen's Inc and PopCap: Kitchen's Inc and PopCap (March 10, 2005)
Boston Globe Article: Boston Globe Article (March 8, 2005)
Problem with Forum Login: Problem with Forum Login (March 7, 2005)
Submit A Game: Submit A Game (March 6, 2005)
New AudioGames.net website beta-version: New AudioGames.net website beta-version (March 3, 2005)