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Computer Games for Students with Visual Impairments

Here is a collection of resources for gaming. There are 2 sections. First, is magazines dedicated to the gamer with visual impairments. Second, is a list of sites where you can download and/or purchase games.

Information

• Audyssey - This is a website that is dedicated to the discussion of computer games which, through accident or design, are accessible to the blind.
• Challenger magazine - a cassette magazine for blind chess players
• How To Play a Text Adventure, Part 1
• QuestML - What is QML? QML, the Quest Markup Language, is a free XML-based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game system by. Adventures can have images, sound, states to check, random events and much more. You can have them be played on any browser, even make them accessible by text-to-speech clients.
• VI Guide's Entertainment page | Computer Games - a sampling of some speech-friendly games that run under DOS

Accessible Games

• 7128 Games - providing computer games that are entertaining, family friendly, affordable, and accessible to everyone
• Accessible Games - Accessible Games are not games written by sighted programmers, and made accessible. Instead, they are designed and written specifically for blind gamers by a totally blind programmer!
• Accessible games and puzzles
• All in Play! - the only place on the Internet where the visually impaired and the sighted can play games together as equals.
• Ann Morris - accessible games for sale
• Bavisoft. Software for the Blind and Visually Impaired. - Hear the future of audio gaming.
• Blind accessible game developers - Fantastic Games and Where to Find Them!
• Cathy's Newstand -- Just for fun, interactive games
• Alchemy Game Studios - new gaming company. Check them out!
• G M A Games - Games designed to be fully accessible to blind and visually impaired individuals. GMA concentrates its efforts on developing sophisticated Windows-based games, while keeping its prices affordable.
• Ifiction.org - Play hundreds of text adventure classics online
• KChess Elite (works with Window Eyes)
• Kitchen's Inc - speech friendly free dos and free windows games by a blind computer programmer.
• Personal Computer Systems Home Page - Computer games designed for blind gamers is our specialty.
• Shades of Gray on the Darkside -- Speech Friendly Games
• Speech Friendly Games
• textadventures.co.uk - Play text adventure games online
• Text Adventure game - more adventure games.
• VI Guide's Entertainment page Computer Games - On this page, I attempt to offer some advice on software for a child with visual impairments. Sometimes the advice is on what not to buy. Sometimes it will be to forewarn you on the extent to which a given program will be independently accessible to the child. And, where and as much possible, I'll try to help you learn how to get and set up these games.

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