Developers of blind accessible games, updated May 5, 2008

Trenton Matthews' Gaming Galaxy.
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The new games start here!

Munawar Bijani's BPC Programs, inc..
Home of Three-D Velocity, evaluation version.
a real-time fighter jet simulation.
Your craft is designed to get you out of the tightest of situations, provided that you do not think too long and are willing to try daring maneuvers.
Your jet is able to go at a top airspeed of mach 2, and is equipped with afterburners to give you a temporary boost in acceleration.
This demonstration version will allow you to play ten minutes of both Death Match and Racing Mode.
All other functionality has been disabled; however, playing these modes will allow you to get a feel for the game and enjoy the fast action of aerial dog fighting, complete with cut-edge sounds.
the proper order of installation should be:
1. Install .NET Framework 3.0.
2. Install DirectX August 2007.
3. Install the Game.
Failing to install the game in this exact order will cause the game to crash and fail.
The reason is DirectX will not properly install and register it's .NET components unless a working and properly registered .NET Framework is installed first.

Treasure Hunt, 4.23, where you can blast walls, guards, and play Mister Demolition to Stop a mad cloner from completing his experiment.
Fart Man, Use your fresh load of beans to blast away other lunch guests in this free game.
Space, The great escape, Armed Survival, Tournament, a turn-based fighting game, and the Unending Adventure game,
Games that either play in Windows, DOS or on Blazie Notetakers.

David Greenwood's GMA Games.
Home of VIP Mud Client, version 1.0.
A Fully Accessible access to hundreds of on-line games .
Discover interesting and fantastic worlds.
Find places to make friends, or maybe enemies,
go on quests, fight monsters,
pilot a spaceship,
become a vampire, and more.
A Mud, standing for Multi-User Dungeon, is a game played by many gamers at the same time.

Shades of Doom, version 1.2,
In which you go through a top secret research base shooting monsters while atempting to shut down the ill-fated experiment.
It now has dynamic and realistic Multi-layered, 3D sound with up to 32 sounds playing simultaneously.
It makes use of a stereo or surround sound system,
Has synthesized 3D effects for non-surround sound systems,
The use of weapons is more realistic with impact sounds and a ricochet for bullets.
You have new weapons, Your fists. They are quicker than a knife, with a larger field of use, but not as powerful.
And Contact Bio-grenades that will kill or injure everything in a 30-foot radius.
And the ending sequence has been improved significantly.
GMA Tank Commander, version 1.2
where you can drive a Hell on Wheels tank from dark until dawn and have a roaring good time.

Lone Wolf Submarine simulation version 3.5
where the ocean becomes your battlefield.
get Lone Wolf to work with screen readers other than JFW. It now works with Microsoft SAPI.

Star Trek 2000
In which you command four Federation Star ships.
and Pacman Talks version 1.1.
A talking version of the popular arcade game.
And the following free games,GMA Solitaire version 2.0.
The standard seven-stack card game, but with a twist. It allows you to cheat and get hints from the game.
Mine Buster, an accessible version of MicroSoft MineSweeper.
J.K. Rowling says this game is an excuse for a nice little brain-resting break.
GMA Dice, an accessible dice roller for use with games like Dungeons and Dragons, Yahtzee, craps and Dice Poker.
and a Triple Yahtzee Excel Spread sheet.
And under development, Lone Wolf Submarine simulation version 4.0

Sander Huiberts, Richard van Tol, and Hugo Verweij's AudioGames PlayCenter.
Home of free Experimental Audio Games that students have developed, many of them requiring a Flash Player.
Games released in 2008:
Leap of faith, Find the way out through the maze.
Fear of the Dark, Find the way out.
Way of the Blind Goose, Fight the enemy.
Drumz 'n Beatz, Drumming game.
Rock 'n Ride, Drag racing game.
Supersonic, An arcade game where you avoid incoming enemies.
The Typing of the Deaf, kill all zombies by typing the words they say.
Audio Rumble, A boxing game.
Ghost driver, You and your drunk friend dodge oncoming cars before you crash.
Bounty Hunter, You drive your vehicle, chasing a rare creature underground.
Fireman, Save people in a burning house.
Blind Rally, A Racing game.
Re-sound, An audio memory game, find the sounds that are linked, such as chain saw, and falling tree.
Games released in 2007
Arcadium, A Retro Arcade Game,
Audio Joust, in which you take on the role of king Arthur’s champion.
Big Cahuna, Catch all kinds of fish within the time limit.
Call of Duty - The Sound Experience.
Crack the Code.
FlySwatter, Swat all flies.
Nameless, locked in a dungeon, with water rising, try to escape before you drown.
Panic at the pub, Find the jukebox and switch off the horrible music.
Rythmic Station, Press left, right and up, to match where the sound is coming from.
Scarface, When the game says the F-word, press the space bar.
Underwater, you command a submarine and explore the deep sea.
Windmill, You are chased by monsters and need to run to the Windmill.
Splatter, kill flies,
Fire Escape, get out of your burning house,
Future olympics,
Ball 4, keep a ball in balance,
Maze game,
Zato, fight the yakuza gang as a blind samurai,
Audio version of frogger
Jumpman, jump over cars,
KILL ALL ZOMBIES,
Sonar, First person shooter
Amazing voice, shout through your microphone to the other player!
SoundPong,
Sightless, RPG game,
Find the Sound
Plus Maffia Hot Pursuit and Sound Memory, that are Dutch spoken.
Sudo-San, an accessible sudoku for blind and sighted gamers!
A Sudoku-puzzle consists of a 9 by 9 grid of cells, made up of 3 by 3 sub-grids named squares. Some cells already contain numbers while others are empty. Your goal is to fill in the empty cells following simple rules.
Best of all the game is free, but it requires you to have Macromedia ShockWave plugin installed.
Drive, a Windows racing game,
and the Shock wave Internet game, Curb, in which a hedge-hog crosses a road.

Damien Sadler's X-Sight Interactive.
Home of Acefire 1.0.
A turnbased shooter game between you and either a computer or online opponent.
Includes, the ability to change game sounds
Enter your name so the computer can refer to you
Computer gets a randomised name
Random names (4650 male, 7055 female and 1276 surnames)
Different sounds according to the gender
Wishes you a happy birthday, rings out at christmas, and wishes you happy easter.
Two main weapons, a gun with 10 bullets and a bullwhip, and a super weapon.
Check opponent's or your status at any point during game play.
Tells what damage was caused during an attack.
High quality music and sounds
Cheats and easter eggs
Verbal prompts by installer
Best of all: The ability to play online against a friend.
While playing online you can also send messages to each other and play sounds.
chopper challenge, version 1.2.
A real time shoot-'em-up style game where you are faced with the infamous Copter Man,
a ruthless half-man, half-machine, hired to finish you off.
Fire at the Copter Man with your laser gun, avoid bombs, pick up items and attempt to last the entire 10 minute battle, racking up as many points as possible!
Blind Man's Bluff, version 1.3.
A free open source game developed by tony sales, Now with SAPI 5 support.
Shoot the maniacs carrying guns and chainsaws, but don't shoot the cat.

Topspeed page, where you will find X-Sight Interactive's cars and tracks,
in the development section, you will find the source code to the long-lost game, self destruct.

Yakir Arbib, Robbert Osztolykan, and Parham Doostdar's Lighttech Interactive.
Home of Bop It Ultimate version 1.1.
Play against the computer on 2 different game themes including a classic version of Bop It,
and an original insane Trick Bop theme.
Connect to another gamer from anywhere across the globe and have a raging Bop It competition while the rhythm gets faster and faster!
version (1.1) of Bop It Ultimate adds several improvements:
a test speaker feature (by hitting "x") from the menus.
an option that allows you to change between desctop and laptop keyboard configurations(by hitting "k"in menus).
you can now type "myip" in the IP prompt and sapi will speak your IP + it will be pasted to your clipboard for your convenience to paste in a chat window.
and increased the IP history to 10 IP addresses.
Features Include:
" Online one on one gameplay against a partner!
" 16 cool rhythms to unlock as you play!
" Play the game on 3 themes: Bop, Trick Bop, and 1on1.
" two different game modes: BeatBop, and VoxBop.
" unlockable Ping - pong bonus game!
" 3 voice settings to choose from.
and the ability to send your score to the Lighttech Interactive score server

Treasure Mania 1: Hunting for lost treasures, Version 1.1
Sail with your boat in the Moajuba Golf, try to hook up as many treasure chests as possible getting tons of gold and coins,
avoid fish, sharks, bees, clifs, and most of all, try not to be spotted by the Moajubian locals
as they will start shooting arrows at you!
BlankBlock, version 1.1.1
An adicting free puzzle game where both mind and skill need to be used in order to get good results.
You get a board filled with blocks, and a Blank slot.
Your task is to try and clear the whole board of blocks using logic, strategic techniques and speed.
Light Cars, version V1.2.
Whare all cars zoom at light speed. It is a remake of the tetris console's car racing game.
Try avoiding tuns of cars comeing from each direction aiming to crush you!
The game includes 2 game modes , the tetris mode is the clasic racing game and in the arcade mode you can avoid holes in the rode, skid, grab items, get engine repares, shoot cars, - and,
shoot the birds bonus level.
Now with Logitech game pad controller support.
Light Locator, Version 1.4.1.
You play a detective who trys to save a whole city by deactivating the mega radioactive bomb a group of terrorists has planted in it's main sky scraper!.
The Horse Racing Game, Version 1.6.2.
a turn-based horse racing simulation game with 5 horses to choose from and authentic crowd and background ambiance
NUM-Crunch, Version 1.0.
an enhanced version of the classic game guess the number with c-d quality sound effects!

Jim Kitchen's Inc, for free Windows games.
Home for these free Windows SAPI five text to speech games,
WinHHV4, Homer on a Harley, version 4.
You are Homer, the Harley riding motorcycle dare devil.
You have brought three of your specially modified Harley Davidson motorcycles to a small oval race track to try to set the record for the number of school buses you can jump.
Version 3 has a key to speak your speed,
a points system, bonus Harleys,
and a practice mode.
Win sim, The game of Simon with 26 sets of sound files and much more.
wingcfs2.exe, 70 new golf courses
wingolf10 is a new version of the golf game. using SAPI text to speech.
Version 10 has improved the way that the pitching wedge and irons work in the sand trap.
It announces the distance that your shot went even when it lands on the green.
there is a hyper key system for the course selection menu.
There are now 242 golf courses.
There is a new club selection menu, a return to main menu feature,
an F7 golf log file review, an automatic rating system for the courses that you create and a reconstituted k speak key toggle feature.

And you can now create your own custom golf courses.

Win Kit.zip
To play any of the SAPI games you need to install the Setup.exe from the winkit.zip file.
It is very important to run this first because it creates the kitchensinc folder and it's listing in your computer's programs list.
It also installs the game of Life into the folder.
WinLife2. which has the new version of the game menu program for the SAPI games, plus the game of life.
No, you don't need the winlife2.exe. It is just the second version of the Life game and a newer version of the game menu program. But if you do want that and you have never run the setup.exe program from the winkit.zip file, you do want to do that first.
Win Ship. Play the classic board game of Battleship against the computer,
or try the new Battle Star Ship game.

win poly8, Monopoly version 8.
Play Monopoly with 2 to 6 players or against the computer.
In version 8, you can now have custom tokens, currency, houses and hotels.
You can also edit the MonopolyCustom.txt file to change Go, Jail, Free Parking, Income Tax, Luxury Tax, Railroad, Utility, Bank, Community Chest and Chance.
You can roll the dice to see who goes first and a person can resign from the game.
The f2 key will toggle the playing of music while your piece is moving,
the f3 key will toggle the speaking of a property color during buying and selling houses, mortgaging and un mortgaging properties, checking assets etc.
The til de key will adjust the rate of the speech .

The game includes over fifty different boards to choose from,
and you can make your own board configuration files.
also includes waver and reader.

Win-NFL3, version 3.
Jim's NFL football game.
Pick your American football team and play an entire season and be in the superbowl game.
With game clock, comments toggle and you can press the f11 key to adjust the volume of the voices and sounds
Also includes Jim's Brain.
Win Skunk, a fun, and funny, dice game for all ages.
Win Spank, a Bop it-like game in which you spank as many ladies as you can. This game is rated "Adult" by the developer
Win yaht, Yahtzee, Double Yahtzee or Triple Yahtzee with up to 9 players
win truck 2, a cross country big rig truck driving simulation game.
Win Cas 2, a casino pack of games that
includes black jack, roulette wheel and craps tables, a 5 card draw poker machine, and a slot machine.
win mast, Master mind, where you try to figure out what the secret numbers are.
win con, a 2 player concentration game.
win lad2, a Snakes and Ladders game version 2. Fixed the midi file player and added a save game feature, and a selection of sounds for when you move etc.
win triv, A trivia game engine.
Four new trivia files for win triv,
Amusement Rides,
Classic Commercials
Harry Potter 2,
and Terminator Series
Win mule, a Star Mule game,
Win Base 4, An arcade style baseball game
Editable player names,
reviewable half inning stats,
more plays, more commercials which you can change or add to,
improved sound files, volume control,
batting practice mode so that you can pick the pitch or not,
and a separate batting practice program for practice in between games
and win hang, a hangman game.
Home of the following self voycing Windows games, Win Car 6 C, Mach 1, Jim's rendition of the Atari car racing game.
Win Pong version 2,
Win Casino,
Win snakes and ladders,
Win Trucker, which you need your screen reader running to play,
and Win Bopit two.

Nolan Darilek's Surreal Horizons archive link.
Nolan Darilek's Surreal Horizons, direct link is currently not available.
Home of Torrent, in development.
Hop aboard your fighter, warm up your lasers and prepare to obliterate wave upon wave of oncoming asteroids and alien ships
in this exciting, fast-paced audio arcade-style shooter.

Ian Humphreys' Spoonbill Software, Blind-gamers series.
Home of Blind-gamers Uno, BG Uno for short,
an accessible version of the popular card game, Uno.
It uses SAPI 5 for the voice and you play against 3 computer players.
The Uno deck consists of cards of 4 colors: red, green, blue, and yellow.
The values in each color are 0-9.
There are 3 honor cards in each color, labeled skip, draw two, and reverse.
There are special black cards, wild and wild draw four.
Seven cards are dealt to each player, and the top card of the stock is exposed to start the discard pile.
If the exposed card has a special ability, it is treated as if the dealer played that card, and the special effect occurs, skip, draw two, reverse, or wild).
At each turn, a player may play a card from their hand that matches the color or rank of the top exposed card, or play a wild or wild draw four.
If a player has no legal card to play, that player draws the top card of the stock, and may either play it or place it in their hand.
After playing a single card or drawing, the next player clockwise takes a turn, unless a reverse is in effect.
The hand ends when a player plays all their cards.
When you hav only one card left. you must say Uno within one second, by hitting the enter key.
BG Word Target, version 1.0, a game of anagrams.
A nine letter word is chosen at random from the dictionary and the letters are scrambled and presented in a 3 by 3 grid.
The central letter is the Target letter and must appear in every word you find.
The object is to make as many word of four letters or more from the nine letters in the grid.
BG Yahtzee 1.0. -
The popular dice game where you roll 5 dice and score in 13 scoring categories, attempting to get the highest score possible and write score as much as possible in one scoring sentence.
BG Boggle 1.0.
The popular word game where you make as many words as you can from the sixteen letter cubes arranged in a four by four grid.
BG Sudoku, the popular number placing puzzle game.
You can generate random puzzles with any of 5 levels of difficulty, or import puzzles from external sources.
You can save your game to resume later.
And you get several tools to assist you in solving the puzzle.
BG 15 puzzle, the famous sliding block puzzle game.
You have 15 tiles, each labelled with a number from 1 through 15, arranged in a 4 by 4 square. The sixteenth position is empty but can be used to slide an adjacent tile into.
At the start of the game, the tiles are shuffled in random order and it is your job to rearrange them into ascending or from 1 to 15, finishing with the empty position in the bottom right hand corner.
BG LAP.
You move on an 8 by 8 array of tiles which are colored using a hidden color scheme.
Your job is to guess the colors, accumulating as few penalty points as possible.
BG Hearts.
You try not to win tricks containing hearts or the Queen of spades.
BG Penguin Solitaire.
Similar in nature to Free Cell but with a twist.
BG Scorpion Solitaire
The easiest to play Solitaire game with new hot keys.
BG Klondike Solitaire - also known in England as Canfield Solitaire.
This is an accessible version of the Solitaire which comes with Windows.
BG Free Cell Solitaire.
accessible cribbage games,
BG Cribbage, 1.0, wave,
BG Cribbage, 1.1, SAPI.

Eleanor and Earle Robinson, John Bannick, David Brown, Cynthia Geller, and Marcia Morrison's 7-128 Software.
Home of the Game Book - Perceptions Edition for Players who are Blind
Demo Game Book.
search for the link,
Image of a hand offering the world Download a FREE demo of the Game Book,
The Demo Game Book is On this page.
Their games are casual non-violent and family friendly,entertaining you
in the time it takes to read a magazine or enjoy a movie.
Many are playable by people who are blind, deaf, or can not use a keyboard.
They have just released a new Woople word game, and,
with the help of their local blind community, vastly simplified their installation, setup, and online help.
Their games also have FREE downloadable demos now.
Their current inventory of games playable by people who are blind includes:
Six Inspector Cyndi, police detective games, including:
Death Nell - Who killed the Downstairs maid,? Many clues, intriguing suspects.
The Forgetful Sailor - His speech and manners are not those of a common deck hand. Who is he?
When Irish Spies are Smiling - Mr. Holland's submersible is missing. Was it those Fenians again?
Unfinished Symphony - Why did the trumpet player keel over into the potted palm at Lady Worthington's toy symphony?
Lights Out - Who took Muffy Huffington's heirloom engagement ring, right off her finger?
Fall from Grace - A young lady vanishes from the steamer Plymouth. Was it that attentive First Mate?
Two Tyler puzzle games, including:
Kim's Game - Rudyard Kipling's Kim could remember the objects. Can you?
Orchestra - The instruments play when you touch them. Can you put them in the correct order?
One Woople word game:
Definitions - Improve your vocabulary and have fun at the same time.
All of their accessible games are self-voicing, and have been tested with JAWS 6 and later, as has their installer.
All accessible games now include F2-HELP, organized specifically for players who are blind.
All of the games run in their Game Book , which enables them to use the same controls so they are easier to learn and to play.

the Game Book - Perceptions Edition for Players who are Blind, is the ENGINE that runs the games and is sold with these 5 games:
1. Inspector Cyndi in Newport - Death Nell.
How did the Worthington's Upstairs Maid die? Death Nell is intended for ages 10 through adult.
2. Kim's Game - From Rudyard Kipling's book, Kim.
Can you remember the original set of objects? Kim's Game is intended for ages 7 through adult.
3. Definitions - Expand your vocabulary and have fun too.
Rated Ages 10 and up.
Crambles - Can you unscramble the letters? Use the Easy button if your vocabulary can't handle it.
Rated Ages 10 and up.
Completion - Inspired by a sign with missing letters at a well-known coffee shop chain.
Can you complete the word, given a set of letter. Use the Easy button if the words are too long.
Rated Ages 10 and up.

Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab.
Home of Audi Odyssey.
An interactive music video game developed for visually impaired
You are Vinyl Scorcher, an up-and-coming DJ, on his quest to get club patrons dancing.

Ken Downey's DreamtechInteractive FTP site.
Ken Downey's DreamtechInteractive, and the treehouse, direct site.
Home of Air Hockey Game, alpha version.
A free, open-source project.
You'll have to have fast reflexes to guard those goals and make some yourself.
The rows of keys above the row with the space bar act as a paddle, which is placed at the position of the corresponding key, similar to the Wrecking ball game.
Derby or The demo from hell.
This is the first of Ken's Audio Game Maker games.
It's a Demolition Derby with a few opponents on the field with cars that aren't as good as yours in many ways, but they're singling you out.
As long as you're trying to ram them, though, they get out of your way. See how many cars you ram before getting cornered.
World of Darkness, Version 2.1. Copyright 2001
a text game about being blind, using HTML TADS - A multimedia TADS 2.5.1 Interpreter.
Enemy attack.
Shoot down the jets, planes, choppers and bombs before they get you. The first unbeatable game--you'll never get bored!

which was featured on Amy Standen's Weekend Edition Sunday, December 24, 2006 program. Video Games for the Vision Impaired.
Wrecking ball, beta version 1.
--a cross between pinball and breakout, now with mouse support.
It has lots of new sound effects and bonuses.
It has ten levels and two modes of game play
classic mode, called Super Breakout, in which you start by hitting the ball with your paddle--not launching it as in previous versions,
and Wrecking Ball mode where you launch the ball.
Nearly everything you do in the game other than checking stats and adjusting volume can be done with the mouse,
but if you prefer the keyboard you can play too.
When the ball hits the ceiling, the blocks aren't the only things to shrink--your mouse-controlled paddle does too.
There are more plans in the works, such as additional bonuses, but most of what Ken will be doing is getting the TTS stuff out and replacing it with human speech
The rows of keys above the row with the space bar act as a paddle, which is placed at the position of the corresponding key.
For example, pressing the l key moves the paddle to the extreme right.
If the ball is there, the paddle will hit it.
There are nine columns of keys arranged in four rows.
It is donationware.
Sound RTS sound pack version 5.
Bryan Smart did most of these sounds, Ken did the voices, blacksmith, and one of the dragon sounds.

Ryan Smith's RS Games.
Home of Shoot Da Me, beta 3.
In which you shoot with your arrow keys.
Guess the Voice Game, beta version.
When you hear the voice type in its name. If you hear the voice of Dec talk Wendy, you type wendy in lowercase letters.

Tristan Bussiere's ACE Games.
Home of the Dragon Slayer Game,
Super Mario Brothers, Audio Edition,
Itsa me, Mario,
Tommy Carol has brought the most famous hero of all computer games into an audio-only rendition of this classic of 1985.
Now in public beta.
Legend of the Green Dragon,
a browser based role playing game, based on Seth Able's Legend of the Red Dragon.

Bartiméus Accessibility Foundation's Audio Game Maker.
Audio Game Maker Beta Release.
The Accessibility Foundation proudly presents the beta release of the Audio Game Maker, a free application which enables visually impaired people to make their own sound-based computer games. Ta dah!

Liam Erven's L Works.
Home of, Duck Hunt version 1.1.
The classic arcade game in which you shoot down as many ducks as you can.
Version 1.1 is free, has a pause feature, two ducks, and clay pigeons.
Most of the sapi speech is now interuptable by pressing the space bar.
Judgment Day.
Save the world by firing your gun at, rockets, copters, planes, disablers, and finally, Supreme Commander Ather.
the game includes 10 levels of play plus a boss level where you get to take on the Supreme commander himself.
a trophy system to earn awards for performing certain tasks,
and 4 unlockable bonus levels.
Parachute Jump.
You've jumped out of an airplane and you're trying to land behind enemy lines.
As you fall you can collect bags of supplies.
Weapon Search.
You've snuck into one of the Supreme Evil's storage rooms.
Your job is to sneak around and collect as many weapons as possible.
Number Guess
Guess as many numbers as possible with in 60 seconds.
You'll be told if your guess is too high or too low.
LWorks Theatre
Listen to pieces of audio, and Some are tutorials to help you play the game.
Judgment Day allows you to use your mouse.
The j key, or left arrow, or moving your mouse left, moves your gun left.
The l key, or right arrow, or moving your mouse right, moves your gun to the right.
The control key or left mouse button fires your gun.

L-Works Arcade, Volume 1.
Five games which include:
Sticks:
You and the computer take turns by removing one, two, or three sticks. Whoever takes the last stick loses.
Number Guess:
A guess the number game. You can choose the range of numbers and difficulty level.
Tones:
A version of Simon. You can select different difficulty levels.
Word Buster:
Type in the word before the computer uncovers all of the letters. A new letter is uncovered every few seconds.
Hangman:
It's a regular hangman game, in which you get to choose the length of the word and the number of your guesses.
The demo allows you to play Sticks and Number Guess.
Super Liam,
Non-stop action in this side scrolling game,
And the free games,
Super egg hunt, version 1.1,
A fun game where you try to collect eggs before your time runs out.
The Great Toy Robbery, version 1.1,
You Grab the toys, and avoid the bad guys cleaning out santa's workshop.
And, Lockpick.
Grab the loot, race the clock, and the cops!

Tom Ward's USA Games Interactive.
Home of Tomb Hunter I: Mysteries of the Aztecs, beta 1.

In this fast action, classic side-scroller, you Are Angela Summers, a daring treasure hunter,
willing to risk everything to find and recover the secret treasures of the Aztecs.
In this demo you will be able to explore dark and eerie under ground temples searching for treasures,
trying to overcome such creatures as sword wielding skeleton warriors, giant spiders, and deadly snakes.
You’ll also navigate around treacherous lava pits, fire pits, and various other traps.
You’ll need to find various tools such as picks and torches to uncover buried treasures or to light your way.

Star Trek: Final Conflict, version 1.2.
You take command of 5 Federation starships, two starbases, and face the Breen, Cardassians, Romulans, and the Borg.
USA Raceway, under development.
Start your engines and burn rubber in this high-speed racing game, that will have realistic audio effects, and support for force feedback racing wheels.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Force, under development.
Grab your light saber and join the Jedi Knights to defend the Republic from armed battle droids, dark Jedi Knights, and the lord of the Sith.
USA Games has officially become a download mirror for PB-Games and XL Studios game titles. You can get such games as Dark Destroyer, Tarzan Junior, Self-Destruct, and more.

Jean-Luc Pontico's Sound RTS.
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.
Some pygame examples for audiogame programming.

Che Martin's Blind Adrenaline Simulations.
Home of Rail Racer, version 1.4.
A futuristic racing simulation for the visually impaired.
You race against an artificially intelligent racer named Art and have jump jets to get you over hurdles.
The 1.4 update includes a new item you can purchase for your racer called the nitro burner, which gives you ten seconds of nitro boost to use as you like.
Also, you can now use the shift a command to find out what your jump altitude was on your last jump, helping greatly to make your jumps more accurate.
The release 1.3, allows players to race in MP mode without using up nitros from their inventory,
and adjusts the keyboard sensitivity to make leaning more responsive.
You must have version 1.3 to race online.
There are two new sounds in version 1.1, one is to indicate when you pass 150 MPH, to help with force fields and nitro timing.
The other sound will be heard when you reach maximum RPM, indicating when you should shift up.
Your Rail Racer can be controlled with a combination of the mouse, keyboard and joystick.
The demo includes two tracks for you to race on, but does not allow the multiplayer racing of the full version,
nor can you post your times and money to the web.

Daniel Miller and Aaron Pareki's Finger Dance.
a rhythm-action audio game inspired by video games like Dance Dance Revolution, Donky Konga, and Elite Beat Agents.
Needs Java 1.5 installed and running on your computer.

Philip Bennefall's pb soundscape games.
Note website in very early development stage.
Future Home to the games Tarzan Junior, jungle adventure games.
Dark destroyer, space shooter game.
ticktac toe, better known as butter, cheese and eggs.
Under development, Ant Attack .
Make your way through the lethal forest to the ant hill and try to avoid getting killed in the process.
This will be an action packed 3d arcade game with several different levels, as well as a built in level editor to allow you to really stretch the limits.
And in development, a 3d shooter game called gangster attack.

Robin Burgener's 20Q.
Home of the 20 Questions Game now with a new Harry Potter version.
This is a game where you think of something and the game's artificial intelligence tries to guess what it is in twenty questions or less.
With a new Java based home page, it's a little tricky gettin' to the games.
I do the following:
go to the site,
then go to the bottom of the page to the,
site map,
and hit enter.
Then search for the word play, then hit enter for the regular game.
You will then need to search for the siteMap link again to get the text links.
or for the special games, search for music then,
arrow down and hit enter on which game you wish to play.
You can now play these 20Q Speciality Games
US Music
UK Music
Television
Movies
Sports
People
Places
Names
Harry Potter 20Q
Play 20Q Demo Games
20Q Junior
Pocket Game Flash Demo
Mobile Game Flash Demo
Play Other Games
Hangman
- guess the word

Brian Bors' Three mouse driven games.
Home of Fireman.
You need to catch jumping people in your net at the bottom of a burning building.
Sword.
In this game the player is fighting an enemy with his sword.
If he breaths in he is ready to swing with his sword.
But he can wait for the enemy to swing,
if the enemy swings and the player swings right after that, he blocks the attack by hitting the enemy sword.
The longer he survives, the faster the enemy will get.
Gestures.
the player is attacked by ogres and imps and must combat them with two spells.
These spells are cast by performing various gestures, and variations of these gestures using the mouse.
Now including an in-game tutorial that will let you practice the spells.

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:
1. Adjustable game speed.
2. Adjustable size of all game graphics.
3. Separately adjustable FX, music and speech volume.
4. 2D sound for localizing objects on a 2D plane.
5. Presentation of spatially localised captions using text and / or graphics for visualizing all game sounds.
6. Reading aloud (for the visually impaired) and automatic scanning (for the motor-impaired) of the game menus.
7. Two high contrast modes (bright graphics on dark background and the inverse).
8. Two novel alternative types of audio descriptions that verbalise the relative position of attacking spaceships in relation to the player and warn for incoming fire.
9. The option of using simple shapes (e.g., rectangles, ellipses) to render all graphic elements.
10. Controls can also be redefined, by editing the respective XML level description files.
The game can be played using diverse alternative controls and interaction techniques.
Access Invaders.
A universally accessible version of the popular classic, Space Invaders action game.
Many game parameters can be customized,
Your spaceship Movement speed, Your BulletsSpeed, Auto-fire feature, and if they can pass through shields,
Your movement direction, Number of hits and Number of lives.
What kind of alien ships you can destroy:
The number of lines of alien ships and the Number of alien ships per line,
Their horizontal and vertical speed Frequency of their bombs dropping, and the Bomb's speed.
The Mothership's Frequency of appearance and speed.
And you can customize the Sounds and music.
The game is in two variations:
Access Invaders for MS-Windows XP, version 1.3, size, 8.0 MB.
Access Invaders for GNU Linux, version 1.0, size, 6.9 MB.
There is also a Soundtrack Add-on, size, 42.2 MB.
Universally Accessible Chess.
UA-Chess allows for two-player games over the Internet,
as well as games with two opponents sharing the same computer.
UA-Chess uses Macromedia Flash MX Professional 7.
Speech synthesis is through the use of Speech Application Language Tags technology.

Alex Warren's Axe Software.
Home of Quest version 4.01, a system for creating and playing text adventure games.
It automatically speaks its text via the screen-reader, instead of SAPI.
The play online feature doesn't work well with screen-readers. -
You can download more games from the text adventures.co.uk site.

Matthew Yarrows, Game Master for Sryth.
Home of Sryth, an online role playing adventure game.
It is a text based game and therefore it's playability by someone who is blind or visually impaired with screenreading programs is extremely straightforward.
You randomly roll your character's set of atributes such as might, mind, spirit, and so on.
You progress by finding magical items, better armour, and such.
And you encounter goblins, skeletal warriors, rats, water elementals and many other creatures.

Kjell 't Hoen, Marthe Jonkers and Ward Lindhout's Drawing Nightmare.
Home of Underwater, a mouse-controlled audio game.
You command a submarine and are exploring the deep sea. With your sonar you navigate, and locate treasures.

The direct download link to Underwater.exe.
an, if you have problems downloading the 12 MB file, A mirror site with the game zipped up.
The instructions file for the game.
The Underwater game loads into memory and does not have an install,
so I needed to wait about two minutes for the game to start playing.

Phil Vlasak's PCS Games, with joint ventures from GMA Games and Draconis Entertainment.
Home of Sarah and the Castle of Witchcraft and Wizardry, version 1.0 and Patch 4 is finally released!
You play Sarah as she explores a magical castle.
There is now a bug fix patch4 to Sarah that is only 19.6 MB.
Also home of the free game, SuperDog's Bone Hunt, version 1.1.
In which you play a dog, hunting for milk bone treats scattered around the backyard.

Pacman Talks version 1.1.
You are Pacman traveling through level after level of mazes gobbling up fruit and trying to avoid ghosts.
Phil also worked on the sounds of GMA Tank Commander.
And collaborated on Ten Pin Alley.
a bowling game that gives you a chance to play one of the world's oldest and most beloved participatory sports!

Andrew Deren's AderSoftware.
Home of 1000 A.D. the most recent web game.
It is a turn-based strategy game that requires only a web browser (IE recommended) to play the game.
There are usually 3 games being run: Standard, Deathmatch and Test.
The Standard is the most popular and around 500 to 800 players play each reset which lasts around 4 weeks.

You can get an older version of the source code for the game from source forge. Older version of the 1000 A.D. source code.
He is currently designing a new web game, a little similar to 1000AD, that will take place in the years around 1750 to 1900.
The game will focus more on research and development instead of fighting, but battles will be bigger and better organized.

Farmsteader'sCyberland sound escape.
You use a sonar-like device to locate the "Gate" portal to descend to the next level where things get increasingly busier while maintaining a healthy distance from the U.E. to prevent Crashing! 
Within this electron-magnetic environment you can't expect everything to function perfectly... and it doesn't! 
The CYBERLAND experience is a whimsical suggestion of why computer glitches, crashes" and for Windows users, Blue Screens Of Death occur in the real world. 

Anatol Kamynin's Technoshock 3D Audiogame.
Technoshock version 1.40b is a first-person 3D shooter in the style and spirit of the classic game Doom.
The update fixes some bugs and adds game sounds.
You control a hero in a 3D environment, with robots and cyborgs attacking you.
It is a free game designed for visually impaired persons.
Game Features: 6 thrilling levels to explore; 9 unique weapons to use; 8 types of robots to defeat; 5 difficulty levels.

Thomas Gaudy's Accessible Game Contest Entry.
Home of The Audio Multi-Players One-Key Mosquito Eater, or by the acronym name, TAMPOKME.
You are a carnivorous plant, and When you hear a mosquito buzzing, You press a user defined key to gulp it down.

Tommy, Robin, and Lee's Dragon Slayer Games.
Home of Super Mario Brothers: The Audio Rendition,
Itsa me, Mario,
Tommy Carol has brought the most famous hero of all computer games into an audio-only rendition of this classic of 1985.
Now in public beta 2.

Dragon Warrior.
You must fight your way up the ranks in the arena of legends until you become the top ranked Dragon Warrior. have You can buy a dragon and train, feed, heal, work with, and bet on it! You can also buy potions and better your weaponry to help your chances at completing your quest.
Elemental Battle.
You must kill other elemental warriors and elements of your own clan to achieve higher clan rank. You can bolster your attacks with items purchased from the weapon, armor, and magic shops, and a bakery.
Destroy the castle.
a realtime online game.
dueling swords.
fight against your friend or the computer in strategic turnbased swordfights,
and war.
the classic card game designed for rainy days!
An audio game called Dangerous Waters in development.

Igor and Alina Khmelevtsov's VIP Games Zone.
Home of, Super sport
There are 2 new games in this package.
1. “Beach Volleyball”
A sports game which will simulate Beach Volleyball with some restrictions.
2. “Funny bowling”
Has special rules to make it more accessible and more fun. It is not a simulator of a real bowling game. Each game has natural human voices and multiplayer features.
Lords of the galaxy 1.0.
An economic strategy game like monopoly, with shooter and action features.
You have a space ship and move from planet to planet where you can buy and sell planets, and buy resources so your planets can earn money.
You move through meteorites and other obstacles and struggle against galaxy monsters.

In the offline game, the computer will imitate five other gamers.
In the online game you can play with a minimum of one, and a maximum of five partners.
Super football, version 1.1.
In the U.S. this game is named soccer.
Please note, the rules of Super football are not the same as the rules of the real football (soccer) game.
You can play against the computer or Play against an opponent over the internet.
And, Galaxy Ranger, version 1.1,
A space strategy maze game, with shooter and RPG features.
You can play not only against your computer, but with a partner over the Internet.
Super tennis, version 1.1, which you can play on your computer, and with your friend over the Internet.
Also home to the games, X Hour, and
five Free games, Dog and Cat, Keyboard crazy, Mortal maze,
Sound Puzzle and Crazy Tennis.

Cara Quinn's Audio Quake Star Wars Mod .
Home of Jedi Quake, Episode 4, update 1. (The definitive edition).
a series of mods or modifications to the agrip AudioQuake game.
You can download it along with it's source code, impulse and key list, and full documentation.

Nolan Darilek's Marauder Games.
Future home to The Marauder Audio Game Engine that will utilize open source technology and a scripting language to create highly-emersive games.
Under development, an epic 3-D space trading and combat game in the spirit of Elite, which is still untitled.

Leonard and Pieter de Ruijter, Bram Duvigneau and Davy Loots's Playing in the dark.
Home of Top Speed 2.
A racing game with these new features:
Racing against up to 7 computer opponents.
Support for Force Feedback steering wheels and joysticks!
Hear the cars pass you by in surround sound!
Race against up to 7 of your friends on a local network or via the internet!
Customize the game with the extensive options menu.
Built in support for add-on cars and tracks.
And best of all : it's free!
Damien Sadler's X-Sight Interactive's Topspeed cars and tracks page.
Top Speed version 1.1a a racing game, that's just fun.
in English, German, Swedish and Dutch.

Mike Oren and Kyle Shipley's DePauw University Computer Science Project.
  Home of Super Moosic release candidate 3.
A Mario type 2D field arcade game that is written in open source Python 2.4.
You still need to install Python using a Windows Installer file from www.python.org to play the game.
python-2.4.3.msi, 9.2 MB
Then you need to copy the 'fmod.dll' file to your system32 folder from the Documentation folder in the zip file.
There is one network version where you can play a 'death match' against another player.
There's a second version where the levels slowly increase in complexity for training purposes and introduce one new element at a time.
The third version is the normal game, currently featuring at least 5 levels.
The game is designed to be playable with the Logitech dual action game pad, otherwise, you can use the keyboard.
Any and all feedback and criticism are greatly appreciated as this is still in the pre-user study stage.

Marco Steinebach and Andrea Mackowiak's Mardy-Productions.
Home of Mississippi.
It is a trading simulation which starts in 1770 in the wild west of America.
Your American uncle has died and bequeaths you all his properties, so you decide to leave your home and emigrate to the new world.
You buy and sell goods, build kontors, your branch offices in several towns, build wagons, and earn money.
If you are good enough, you will become president of America.
But, as in real life, you get good and bad news, some for yourself, some for all players. E.g. you can win a lot of money, or all your wagons can not leave the Headquarters for a round.
You can play the game with 5 blind or sighted people together.
There is music, and most of the news is spoken. The game itself is not self-voicing, so you need a screen reader to play.
The game is shareware, so you can test it for yourself.
In the Demo version you can play all functions except some games in the casino for four years until 1775 when the demo ends.
In the full version you can play until 1820.
In the setup, you can select between english and german languages.

Phia Damsma and John Norgaard's Sonokids.
Home of Memory and Banjobuster, Flash Internet games for children.
Also Home of Accessible Sudoku.
Instead of a 9 by 9 grid this free on-line game has a 4 by 4 grid and uses 4 sounds instead of numbers.
You need a flash plug in and also need to unload JFW to play it.
You should start the game and then unload JFW then hit f5 to restart the game.
This may be necessary since unloading JFW sometimes moves your focus from the game.
It is fun and a great way to get into Sudoku.

Steve Crawford's Azabat Software.
Home of Backgammon (SAPI downloadable version), which costs $18.
four game collections. .
1. easy-to-play games:
Yahtzee, Blackjack, Klondike (Solitaire) and Connect 4.
2. word games:
Hangman, Anagrams, Target, Kount-down, Number Crunch and Link-words.
3. grid games:
Battleships, Memory, Sudoku and UXB, an accessible clone of Windows Minesweeper.
4. strategy games:
Backgammon, Dominoes, Draughts (Checkers) and Scrazabat, an accessible clone of Scrabble.
Plus you can download demos of Backgammon and Hangman that use SAPI.

Marcin and Sebastian Smyczyñski, Tomasz Kurjata, Daniel Mira, Lukasz Sikorski and Maciej Muszytowski's Klango Applications.
Home of Haunted Factory.
Become a vivid worker of this amazing factory.
Have guts, stand by an assembly line and show your best. Your sharp mind, logic thinking and instant reaction will be your strengths here.
the Pirate Memory Game.
A classic memory game conducted by a pirate and his jovial parrot.
Alphabet, Shapes And Colors
Free and simple application for 2- and 3-year-old children
Klango is an environment for developing and running of audio games and applications.

Eden Kung, Matt Clark, Daniel Evans, and Patrick Dwyer's Sounds Like Fun.
Home of , Descent into Madness.
a horror-themed adventure game.
You are the test subject of a scientist who has given you a maddening disease, and it’s up to you to find a cure.
You solve puzzles and learn the story through voice recordings left behind by the scientist.
Sonic Zoom
You are in control of the Sonic Zoom car. Your mission: collect coins, avoid obstacles, and get to the finish line intact.
Your road has three lanes. Speed up if you’re feeling confident; slow down if you hit a rough patch. Play as long as you can for a high score.

Paul Silva, Jeremie Spitzer, and Tim Keenan's All inPlay.
Home of All inPlay Texas Hold'em.
It is an online version of the popular Texas Holdem poker game and is now in Open Beta.
Online Draw Poker,
The first popular game where the blind and sighted can play together.
and online Crazy Eights.

Draconis Entertainment.
Home of Sarah and the Castle of Witchcraft and Wizardry, version 1.0 which can only be purchased through their shopping cart.
A first-person action arcade game in which you play as Sarah, a young witch who has become trapped in the Castle.
You encounter ghosts and monsters, strange creatures, a cranky caretaker, and perform all sorts of magic to escape the castle.
Beware! Things are not always what they seem!
the free game, Christmas Whoop Ass
Pinball Party Pack, volume 1.1.0.
Purchase three new tables for owners of Pinball Xtreme.
1. The Revenge of ShockRa
DynaMan faces off against the sizzling hot and wickedly evil ShockRa, who is one angry villainness bent on destroying him forever!
2. Old Man Stanley's House
Stanley's come home from a long night of drinkin' at the Silver Dollar saloon.
He thinks he's gonna kick back and relax, until you show up and create mayhem.
3. XTreme Wild West
You're in the town of Silver Dollar with all your old favorite trouble to be gettin' into, but also with a lot of new things to do.
the Ultimate SounDoku, version 1.0.3.
An accessible Sudoku game which you can play as a demo for fifteen days.
You fill in every square on the 9by 9 or 16by 16 cell puzzle-grid without repeating any value in any row, column, or region.
You can use letters, numbers, or sound effects in Eight entirely different audio themes and play against the clock if you wish.
You can create your oan puzzles, or copy puzzles from Sudoku puzzle books.
You can save a game in progress and resume it later.
And it doesn't need the Macromedia ShockWave plugin.
Monkey Business, version 1.9.1,
Support for Windows Vista
Demo mode, play three of this game's levels for an unlimited period of time.
Where you try to help the professor catch the monkeys in different environments.
Alien Outback, version 2.1.4, where you, as Busha Bob, fight Evil alien lifeforms.
ESP Pinball Xtreme, version 1.3.0.
Which includes these six tables,
1. Alien Invasion, shoot aliens table,
2. Home Run, baseball table,
3. Merlin's Laboratory, mix potions table,
4. Pinball Extreme, circus table,
5. Sudwerks, delivering drinks table,
And, 6. Topgun, an airplane pilot table,
In demo mode you can play the Baseball and circus tables for fifteen days.
Ten Pin Alley, version 1.2.0.
Immerse yourself in a simulated bowling alley to play one of the world's oldest and most beloved participatory sports!
At Ten Pin Alley, you compete against your friends and family or play solo as the not-so-world-renound, Bo Linball, gives you the play-by-play.
DynaMan Version 2.2.6.
where you encounter the menacing Sparks Brothers in the Power Grids.
Pinball Classic, Version 1.8.0.
Which includes these six tables,
1. Heist, take on jobs from a crime lord table,
2. Haunted House, spend the night in a scary house table,
3. Safari, In a jungle hunting wild animals table,
4. Soccer Star, football game table.
5. Wild West, A horse thief in the Old West table,
And, 6. Pac Man,Gobble up points, a classic arcade game table.
Change Reaction, Version 1.6.2.
Where you collect coins before they blow up.
And the free game, ESP Whoop Ass, version 1.0.1.

R. Hunter Gough's Studio Hunty.
Home of, In The Pit.
A submission to The Experimental Game play Project's Consume competition.
It is a stealth action game, in which you play a nasty creature living at the bottom of a pit, hunting down people who fall in.
But, an XBox 360 wired controller for Windows is required to play this game.

Tom Throop's Great Game Products.
Home of Bridge Baron 16, an Accessible Computer Bridge Game.
It deals the cards, keeps the score, and plays three of the four hands.
It will verbally announce bids, card plays, and hints.
On the home page, you should clik on the link, See how Bridge Baron helps the visually impaired play bridge.

Demor: a location based 3d audio game.
a proof of concept demonstration game developed by seven students at the Utrecht School of the Arts Hilversum, Netherlands for the Bartimeus Institute for the Blind.
You use a bagpack containing a laptop, headphones, a GPS module, a head tracker and a modified joystick.
The game play arena can be any large, empty outdoor space, such as a soccer field.
You are situated in the center of a 3D audio shooting game. You can move through the auditory surroundings and hear sounds of bad guys, and ammunition coming from your left, right and in front of you. They can come from close-by, a distance and any space in between.
The soundscape will adjust itself in real time to your position and the direction in which you move your head. You shoot enemies by turning your head towards them and hitting the joystick fire button.

BAB Books On-Line, a portal to online stories and games for kids. Home of, Adlib
Lets you write your own silly story on the web, now with 14 different stories!
For example, Strange but True
On average, people fear dogs more than they do cups!

Nomensa's Revenge of the Elves.
A free Macromedia Flash game.
Elves will appear from their hiding places and shout their numbers.
When you hear the word Go, press the same numbers on your number pad in the same order they appeared.
The elves are positioned as the numbers on your keyboard number pad. bottom left is 1, top right is 9, etc.
You may need to hit the Num Lock key to play the game with JFW. This is the top left key on the number pad.

Niko Ghrinstruhm's downloads page.
Bomb Stopper
Stop the bombs from falling and destroying the world!

Matthew H. Yarrows' Sryth the age of Igtheon.
An accessible text based single player role playing game
Sryth involves a little player competition entirely based on ranks and levels each player attains, with no interaction between players whatsoever.
This is a truly huge text based rpg with over five thousand features of content and new stuff being added frequently.
though the system of clicking links is much like a gamebook, the amount of stats, powers and combat system much more resemble a more modern Rpg.
You can play through about 2000 pages of the game for free, but to get new features requires a small subscription fee.

Jo Diva and Jonathan Blake's Project aon.
On-line versions of the Grey Star, world of Lone Wolf Series of fantasy Gamebooks by Jo Diva.
Grey Star the Wizard,
The Forbidden City,
Beyond the Nightmare Gate
and, War of the Wizards,
You play as Lone Wolf, a warrior-monk whose potential as a hero emerges from the tragic defeat of his teachers and kinsmen, known as the Kai Lords.
These are solo adventures that can be read and interpreted at your leisure, bringing a unique experience to the reader.
you do not only make key decisions in the text, but also choose your equipment and abilities, which may help you to survive through encounters that have both strategic and random elements.
The graphical tables included aren't necessary to play the game, as the GMA games dice programme can be used to roll a D10 which serves the same purpose.

Eric Stevens, JT Traub and Danilo Stern-Sapad's Hogwarts Live.
An interactive Harry Potter browser based role-playing game
It takes place in a futuristic Hogwarts setting where Harry has already graduated.
You work your way up by gaining levels and experience through defeating fantastic beasts, malicious Slytherin, evil Death Eaters, unruly professors, and at last the infamous Dark Lord.
Earn your title as Hogwarts Champion through your own magical adventure where you can buy brooms, pets, weapons, and armor and use them in your battles with mythical beasts and the legends of bygone days as well as the present time.
You should Set up short cuts with your screen reader so you can jump from the section of the page that allows you to make decisions to the section that tells you what is going on.
This is so you don't have to wade through all the ads when you are playing.
The game is free, but unfortunately contains ads.

Dominique Archambault's TiM games.
Home of Mud splat.
A completely audio-based game where the player defends the Earth from mud-throwing monsters.
In this free arcade-style game, there are 25 different levels as well as bosses, power-ups and lots of action!
Available in English, French, and Swedish.

David Burden's Daden Limited.
Home of Gata Verse - the XML based Games System.
You can choose from the following free on-line turn based games:
. Gladiator Arena
. Close Quarter Battle Range - Contemporary
. Fantasy Dungeon
. Boarding Party in Space

Houghton Mifflin Company Games.
flash based crossword puzzles for kids.
You can work on these puzzles using a screenreading program like JAWS or WindowEyes, or by using the Narrator program that comes with Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Sean Hanlon's Accessible Chess Tutor.
Allows visually disabled people to learn and play chess.
This zip package doesn't come with glut32.dll and you will need that.
You can get glut32.dll here.
Just copy that into the ACT folder.

Patrick Dwyer & Peter S. VanLund's RPG Game Engine and Map Maker.
Home of The Last Crusade
Travel through The Village of Cascata, and the graveyard to reach Castle Lasarus where you must kill evil King Lasarus.

Igor and Alina Khmelevtsov's VIP Games Zone Kids.
Free games for children from 6 to 10 years old using Microsoft Text to Speech.
Typer.
In which you can learn the keyboard.
ABC
In which you can learn the English alphabet.
Numbers stuff -
In which you can learn math.

Michael Aschauer, Sepp Deinhofer, Thomas Felder, and Rainer Mandl's a.Game production.
Home of A.Shooter Sonic Invaders.
A freeware audio game version of Space Invaders, playable with a joystick. The setup is about 53 MB in size.

Gary Whittington's Play Ball web site.
dedicated for Blind Sports Simulations and other fun stuff.
Strat-O-Matic baseball simulator
He has a Starters Kit with the demo, Jaws configuration files and help files to get you started.
APBA baseball simulator
And he just discovered another baseball simulator and is in the process of reviewing it.

Tim Chase's SoundMind.
Home of SoundMind,
a game like MasterMind, only it uses sounds rather than colored pegs.
A theme package of sounds is available as well.

Malthe Jepsen's MJ-soft.
Home of, Guess It, version 1.1.
It's a clasic guess the number game...

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.

Kent Tessman's General Coffee Company Film Productions.
Home of Future Boy.
A text-based adventure game that is more than interactive fiction, it's an interactive comic book.
Future Boy is a superhero, and you are his roommate.
When Future Boy is captured by a criminal supergenius, you have to save Rocket City
without the benefit of superpowers, using only quick-thinking and a knack for overcoming obstacles in unexpected ways.
It uses a classic adventure game interface like the original Zork's, refitted with graphics, sound, animation, music, spoken dialogue, and mouse control.

Aristides Mytaras home page. Home of Sonic Invaders.
A Freeware Space Invaders type arcade audio game, ideal for blind and visually impaired persons.

Scott Dillman's BinaryRevelations.
Home of WinFrotz TTS 2002
With the help of Beto Escobar WinFrotzTTS is getting a major update with Text-To-Speech.

Scott Dillman's WinFrotz-TTS download site.
This is a new WinFrotzTTS release. It has many more enhancements for people with visual impairments.
WinFrotzTTS 2002 1.5.1
This is an updated release that contains bug fixes.
This version's interface is incompatible with the previous version's saved games.
Version: 1.5.1
File size: 1.42 MB
Added on: April 6, 2005
WinFrotzTTS 2002 Source Code
Source code for version 1.5.1 if anyone wants to make changes or compile it. It needs better docs and more cleanup.
Version: 1.5.1
File size: 8.77 MB
Added on: April 6, 2005
Interactive Fiction Archive for WinFrotzTTS.
   The file name is, ifarchive_setup.exe
It installs hundreds of games in Infocom Z-Machine format, 20.8 MB.

Tom Lorimer's whitestick site where you can also get the WinFrotzTTS interpreter.

There are over 300 text-based games for the WinFrotzTTS interpreter at this if archive.org site.

Arthur Jacobs' Drs Executable jar.
a free Java based electronic educational game.
An answer the question quiz about individuals with disabilities.

You will be rewarded when correct.

Chris Boraski's Zork: The Cavern of Doom.
a free HTML format game. written by S. Eric Meretzky for Infocom.

Garfield's Star Sleeper Home page.
Home of Mission Z,
An alien spacecraft is bombarding the Earth with sound waves. Break the codes to stop them.
Sheep Shot,
Garfield is asleep, and you can toss sheep at him, and every time you hit him he will get an additional 30 minutes of sleep.
and Comic Creator.
Finish a little bedtime story about Garfield.
When the game says, "select a noun," pressing the arrow keys will give you a whole bunch of nouns to pick from.

Screen reader versions of games using the Flash Player.

Dan Zingaro's DanZ Games.
Due to other time commitments, DanZ Games will be closing in June 2008.
In the meantime, they have released their game products as freeware.
word game, Search Party, version 1.2.
Find all of the hidden words in the puzzles.
You're given a list of words, and a grid of letters in which these words are hidden.
Has several word lists to get you started, and a simple interface to create your own puzzles.
A great way to improve your vocabulary skills, or just to have some fun!
ChainLink, version 1.2.
In which you get a seven-word chain, that you must fill in based on the two words that are given to you.
And Super Deekout, version 1.1,
where You make a robot who knows you are the enemy, and you'll have to fend off threats that he launches at you.
And the free games, Maze Craze, version 1.4.
Where you play various mazes, trying to find your way out. It includes a maze editor.
And, DanZ Memory, a simon type game.
And under development, Cannon Crossfire.
a stunning multiplayer turn-based strategy game, which will be an all-out battle between two sides.

Nick Gawronski's Games.
Home of four games in development,
1. Boating Week,
in which you try avoiding dangerous waves and bombs fired from enemy boats,
while You fish, eat, drive and lots more
2. Shoot Out where you can move on land, water or sky and shoot the enemy and rade their homes for lots of supplies.
3. Doctor Newnew.
You and your friends must make your way threw Newnew the mad man's lab and stop his madness from taking control.
4. The mudbot program is just getting started.
4.

Tyler Littlefield's Dataplus World Wide.
a new street fighter game, now under development.
the first one will be simple, but plan to have guns, ammo, cars, and other stuff.

Simon Cowan's Simon's Games.
Home of, Fast and Loose.
A simple game of archery for you to play with.
Internet Noughts and crosses
Play Noughts and crosses, or tic-tac-toe, across the internet. Strictly a two-player game.
Blackjack: a popular casino card game.
Baccarat: another popular casino card game similar to Blackjack.
Noughts and crosses: you may know this one as Tic-tac-toe.
Guess it: guess the number in as few turns as you can.
Simple chat. Host, or connect to someone, for live, one-to-one text chat.

Bill Teale and Jack Haymer's UK Audio Network.
Home of Goalball One on One.
You play against the computer and choose either numbers 1 2 or 3.
Then the computer does a random choice of 1, 2 or 3.
If it picks the same number there is a good chance it will block your ball but it is not guaranteed.
And if it chooses different than you the ball may still not go in the goal.
Jungle Fever.
An accessible free on-line game.
Note you may have to either turn off your screen reader or use your number pad for this game.
and The Daily Puzzle.

Larry Skutchan's American Printing House for the Blind, with work by Elaine Kitchel, Rob Meredith, Rodger Smith, and John Hedges. Home of the new game, Armadillo Army
Help Tex evade armadillos while gathering prizes in this game made for blind or low vision players. uses images and special sounds to guide you around the maze.
Talking Word Puzzles
Play hidden word and crossword puzzles with speech feedback while navigating through the puzzle grids.
You can also create your own puzzles.
Termite torpedo.
A space invaders type game designed especially for blind or low vision players.
Talking Typer.
with the Hurry Scurry game,
A fun game that pits you against Merlin the Magician in a race to type characters.
Merlin tells you which letters or phrases to type, and you type them before they fall off the screen.
The letters move from left to right and down the screen, but if you have trouble tracking the movement, Talking Typer also displays the phrase at a stationary point at the bottom of the screen.
And Toodle Tiles, now under development.
uses the basic tiles and strategies of the ancient mahjong game.

James Dietz's Conspirasoft Entertainment.
Home of Duck Hunter.
A free game where you run around and shoot ducks. Original eh?
And, Guess the Number.

Flint Million's Freedom Games.
Home of Freedom Millionaire, version 1.5, an accessible version of the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire game.
And Freedom Wheel of Fortune, an accessible version of the Wheel Of Fortune game.
And Freedom Chat, an Accessible Internet Chat with a link to Accessible StarFight.

Ky Kimport's Tursiops Truncatus Studios.
Home of Aura, version 0.9.4 -- Public Beta #5,
an experimental puzzle game where you must navigate through trap riddled mazes.
The catch is that you are blind, and must rely exclusively on your sense of hearing to survive.

Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Project. Play original titles on line using the FBOOK system.
Bodies In The Docks
Hellfire
House Of Horror
Lair Of The Troglodytes
Midnight Deep
Outsider
Rebels Of The Dark Chasms
Riders Of The Storm
The Trial Of Allibor's Tomb

Justin Daubenmire's BSC Games, with work by Igor Khmelevtsov and Dan Zingaro.
home of five Arcade Games
Pipe two, Blast Chamber,
where you repare the underground pipe system, and disable a bomb under the red dragon carryout.
Troopanum version 2.0,
A fast action packed arcade game similar to space invaders and missile command.
Hunter version 1.2,
an action adventure game with ten tasks to accomplish:
Jungle hunt, Swamp walk Fishing round, Gnapper bugs,
Canoe ride, Valley of the tigers, Mountain climb, Quest for treasure,
Bone pipes, and Waterfall vine swing.
The classic versions of
pipe version 1.0
and troopanum 1.6.
three Educational Games
15 numbers
A fun puzzle game that will keep your brain twisting for hours.
Word Strain Volume 1 and 2
Highly addictive and educational word games.
And five free games:
Deekout
Finger Panic
Sonic Match
Bobby's Revenge
Crazy Darts

Jeff Gibbons's Bavisoft.
home of Chillingham, where your quest is to find a friend,
while fighting vampires, witches, werewolves and more.
A blend of adventure, action, mystery and humor.
and Grizzly Gulch Western Extravaganza, released April 18, 2000.
And, under development, Chillingham Two.

Justin Daubenmire's BSC Games Programming Resource Center.
Home of the game, Chopper Patrol,
with code to help computer programming students learn how to program games for the blind.

Matthew T. Atkinson and Sabahattin Gucukoglu's AGRIP.
Home of AudioQuake 0.3.0 Release Candidate 1 which is in beta.
It supports single and multiplayer game modes, online stats tracking and new high-resolution sounds courtesy of the mind grid audio Quake project.
and Accessible Quake, version 0.2.1 an accessible extension to Quake.
Accessible Games Rendering Independence Possible is making a spoken interface to Quake, one of the most popular 3D first person games.

Keith Westley's Ultimate Cribbage Page.
Home of the Ultimate cribbage project.

Peter Laursen's TDL Games.
Home of Space Colony Cleaner Version 1.00 now released.
Your job is to kill evil robots that have taken over human colonies in outer space.

Peter Laursen's TDL Software.
Home of TDLSoftLib Pro, a library that will make it easier to create games.

Nick Adamson's Software, not available.
Nick Adamson's Software, archived link.
Home of Flight Commander, a fast action space fighter game, currently under development.

Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille.
Home of four Flash audio games, The Towers of Hanoi, Memory, Tag, and Skybells.

Jason SW's XL Studios Software Industry, which is not a working link.
Jason has stopped developing games and his free christmas game, Giftanum, version 1.23.
is now on,
Shane Davidson's shaneD.net site.
You use a whip to get the falling gifts before they break on the ground, and use a stun gun on Santa before he can escape.
Danger City, no longer under development.
It was going to be like the game called Streets Of Rage, a well-known series for the Sega Genesis console.
You can download Danger City, zipped up here.
Self Destruct 1.1.6 is now clasified as Abandonware.

Richard W. Fairbairn's RWF Talking Software, with work by Bernadette.
Home of the Talking Maze Game.

Chris Lewis's Reading University course project.
Home of the Audio Formula One racing game.

George Primentas, Vivik Ying Luo, and James Hsieh's Beautiful Ears Project.
Home of a shockwave prototype of their sound-based computer game.

Jason Santa Ana-White's BASCentral.
Home of quality BASIC games for the FS Notetakers, and some in GWBasic, and a new VB division.

: Thomas Westin, Stig Nordeson, Paulina Gustavsson, Tobias Sundberg and Marcus Pettersson's Pin Interactive.
Home of Terraformers using the Shock wave web platform.

Dominique Archambault and Sébastien Sablé's TIM Project.
Home of Tactile Interactive Multimedia computer games for blind and visually impaired children.

The Blind Eye.com.
Home of Blind Eye, a game in which you locate musical instruments.

Eduard, Sonia, Susana, and Javier's Code Factory, no longer sells these games.

Code Factory archive site.
Was home of Private Detective School.
Pedals from the organ have gone missing, which are used to open the safe.
Alien Invasion,
The planets have come out of their orbits and you must recover them.
Los Secretos de Villa del Agua,
Townsfolk are kidnapped by a dragon.
Time Adventures,
something sinister is lurking behind the megacorporations.
and KM 2000 driving simulator
and these twelve educational games.
The Hare and the Tortoise
Little Red Riding Hood
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin
Cinderella
Puss in Boots
Sleeping Beauty
The Three Little Pigs
Hansel And Gretel
Pinochio
The Ugly Duckling
The Tin Soldier

Allen Maynard's Fantasy Storm.net, not available for security reasons.
Home of The free Savage Gamut game, a Windows boxing game and the Savage Gamut Trainer.
And a basketball game under development.

Robert Betz's Initram Technologies Inc.
Home of several Windows games that use an included Eloquence synthesizer, like,
Suit Yourself, BlackJack, Battleship,
Free Cell, Memory, Simon,
Word Play, Word Scramble and Yahtzee.
And has StarFight, the world's first accessible Internet game.

Robison Bryan's Inspired code.
Home of Metris, a Musical Tetris game.
Robison Bryan's For the Visually Impaired page.
Where you can download his SayPad freeware talking text editor that
also installs the SAPI 5.1 Text To Speech engine.
He also has 4 Blind Mice, a mouse-driven real-time screen-reader
designed to work with your existing screen reader program. 

Robison Bryan's Audio Adventure Engine Project.
home of a Windows game creating engine, now under construction.

Craig Faris's Marvel Soft Enterprises.
Home of Talking Typing Teacher, Talking Toolbox, and Marvel Math.

Michael Whapples' Moral Mike.
Home of a free Windows Othello game, version 3.1.2.

Other places with one accessible game.

Rob McDonell's Ark Angles' Kchess, a speech-friendly computer chess game.

Crista Earl's CrissCross Technologies.
home of CCT Solitaire, a Windows card game.

United States Braille Chess Association.

Tim Mann's Winboard.
a speech-friendly computer chess game adapted to work with JAWS for Windows.

Other places to find games, and information about accessible games.

the IF Archive.
a site of text-based adventure games.

The Best of Interactive Fiction.

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