Developers of blind accessible Mac games,
updated May 4, 2008
My list is primarily designed to search for a type of game or the name of a game and to easily go to the web site where you can download it.
Assistive Gaming, Mac OS X Games & Accessibility.
Assistive Gaming provides information on how people with all disabilities can enjoy the latest and greatest games.
The editors use assistive technology to access their computer, so they know what they are talking about...
The technology access advice
site, I Can Work This Thing.
You can use the VoiceOver link on that page's instructions to set up
VoiceOver first before playing any games,
since those instructions optimise your VoiceOver accessibility settings.
Dimitris Grammenos' Universally Accessible Games.
Home of Terrestrial Invaders.
The game includes several accessibility features that can be switched on and
off, both off-line and on-the-fly, such as:
Adjustable game speed,
Adjustable size of all game graphics,
Separately adjustable FX, music and speech volume,
2D sound for localizing objects on a 2D plane,
Presentation of spatially localised captions using text and / or graphics
for visualizing all game sounds,
Reading aloud (for the visually impaired) and automatic scanning (for the
motor-impaired) of the game menus,
Two high contrast modes (bright graphics on dark background and the
inverse),
Two types of audio descriptions that verbalise the
relative position of attacking spaceships in relation to the player and warn
for incoming fire,
The option of using simple shapes such as rectangles, or ellipses to render
all graphic elements,
and controls can be redefined.
The game can be played using diverse alternative controls and interaction techniques.
Terrestrial Invaders for Windows is 20.8 MB,
Terrestrial Invaders for Mac OS X is 29.4 MB,
and Terrestrial Invaders for Linux x86 is 25.8 MB.
Mac-cessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Provides brief tips and tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users to improve their Apple experience.
darcy and holly's Screenless Switchers Podcast.
A podcast about accessibility improvements for the mac and often discuss accessible games for the leopard, the new operating system for the mac
They are sometimes joined by Josh De Lioncourt of the Maccessibility site.
Apple Chess version 2.1.
Apple Chess is the only built in game for Mac currently accessible.
It is bundled with the Mac OS X operating system and is also distributed as free and open source software on the Apple website.
2.47 MB
From: www.opensource.apple.com
It communicates with the
Sjeng chess engine which runs in a separate process.
Chess can be also played using voice commands,
which uses Mac OS X's built-in speech recognition capabilities.
Games can be logged using the log feature,
which can include information such as names, dates, places, types of game and moves made.
Andrew Hunter's Logical Shift software and Zoom for Mac.
Zoom version 1.1.2
November 22nd, 2007, 4.56 MB.
an advanced player for interactive fiction stories written in four major formats.
Z-Code, the format used by Infocom in the 1980s for games including Zork and Trinity, as well as new games written using the Inform language.
Glulx, a modern language intended to be the successor to Z-Code.
TADS, a modern language developed by Mike Roberts.
HUGO, a modern language developed by The General Coffee Company.
It has a Text to speech interface setting.
Zoom Manual for Mac OS X.
Jean-Luc Pontico's SoundRTS.
Now in 1.0 beta 9 version, a Sound Real Time Strategy audio game with an English translation
from the French original.
Inspired by Warcraft,a fantasy battle game.
You are the general of an army, commanding peasants, foot soldiers, knights, archers, catapults, mages, and dragons against enemy forces.
you can play alone, or in
a multiplayer online game.
this game is a free beta and is not recommended to people under 13.
. For the Mac or Linux, download
soundRTS-1.0-b9h-en.zip
and follow the instructions in the readme.txt file.
Howard Sherman's Malinche Entertainment, Experience fully immersive interactive fiction where you get inside
a story..
Home of, The First Mile - Scarey from the Start
The game opens in a haunting atmosphere and becomes more and more chilling as you explore Dead Rock, Arkansas.
You'll find almost unspeakable horrors on the floors of the elementary school,
find out what happened to the old pastor who stood against the sinister forces at work
and stumble on something unbelievable in one of the dank tunnels of the abandoned coal mine.
This game harbors a dozen different endings that can be discovered depending entirely upon your
ability to tap into your imagination.
Azteca
The discovery of an Aztec temple, untouched for centuries, is made.
But scientists at the site have gone missing and many rare artifacts have been stolen. Fame and fortune is yours if you can leave
the temple alive with the riddle solved.
Endgame
where you take command of a Navy cruiser as you drive ahead
in a Naval techno thriller.
Greystone and Pentari: First Light,
Baltimore: 24 and The Bastard Operator from Hell.
All Malinche Interactive Fiction Titles Work Perfectly on any version of Mac OS X.
In addition, our interactive fiction books are compatible with Linux, Unix, the entire Palm family,
Windows Mobile devices, most smartphones, Classic iPods and even
the Nintendo DS!
Howard Sherman's Malinche Entertainment, Apple Mac Websites.
Assistive Technology Software for Mac OS X.
Mac Visionaries.
Helps blind people to use the Apple Macintosh computing platform.
the IF Archive.
a site of text-based adventure games.
The Best of Interactive Fiction.
Audyssey Quarterly Game Magazine for the blind Online
Those who want to receive issues of Audyssey as they are published
should send a blank E-mail to
Audysub-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Audyssey is a magazine that discusses blind games and usually comes out at the end of
February, May, August and November.
The Blind Gamers list discusses games
accessible to the blind between issues of Audyssey.
To subscribe to this discussion list, send a blank message to
Gamers-subscribe@audyssey.org
download Audyssey magazines from Kelly John Sapergia's site.
Issues are available either individually, or you can download all of them in a ZIP file.
Audio Games.net spotlights Windows game releases.
Click here for Kelly Sapergia's PCS Games musical theme.
Sharpen Your Body And Mind With Body Talk books by Louis Scrivani.
web page by Louis Scrivani and Phil Vlasak,
May 4, 2008.