WE HAVE ALMOST SAVED GAMING.
Or have we? Can we still save it?
All it would have taken was a million signatures from EU citizens.
Don't we have a million gamers in the EU who are eligible to vote?
Here's probably the last update from #StopKillingGames :
youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtU…
Have you signed yet?
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patricus
in reply to unfa🇺🇦 • • •unfa🇺🇦
in reply to patricus • • •If I knew I had a public that'd enjoy a sightless game, I could try and make something. I feel like there ought to be a recurring game jam for audio-only games too. If you can reach a lot of blind players, maybe we could get some indie game devs interested in making for that crowd...
patricus
in reply to unfa🇺🇦 • • •patricus
in reply to patricus • • •unfa🇺🇦
in reply to patricus • • •@patricus Well, I already have one indie (FOSS) game in the pipeline... since 2020. And I don't think you'd consider it that big, anyway.
I'd love to know what do visually impaired people value in games! Do you like dialogue-heavy games? Or music games? Abstract games? Games rendering a 3D sound space?
Do you have any reference games you could point me towards for research?
patricus
in reply to unfa🇺🇦 • • •Madagascar_Sky
in reply to patricus • • •@patricus
It's a bit like the US vote in 2024. You cannot in good conscience vote for Kamala Harris because she is a two faced lying politician ex-cop with no firm commitments on Gaza.
If you have any games at all that you like, any at all, then you'll do it for games. So that they can survive for the future generation.
This will NOT get you better games for non-sighted people. This will change NOTHING in that regard. But it will save whatever games that do come out in this category.
patricus
in reply to Madagascar_Sky • • •Madagascar_Sky
in reply to patricus • • •@patricus
So that the ones that are like TLOU 1&2 that come out in the future can be saved.
Shade of the mango tree that you will never see and all.
patricus
in reply to Madagascar_Sky • • •Madagascar_Sky
in reply to patricus • • •@patricus
There is nothing 'natural' about games dying. HL1&2, TeamFortress, Ultima, are all games that are playable today.
But since the introduction of server side components and always online policies newer games are dying when their servers shut off.
This initiative is about saving new games that will come henceforth. Not many people care about blind accessibility. But those who care and will make games, do it for them. Care for things that matter to YOU. Save them.
patricus
in reply to Madagascar_Sky • • •unfa🇺🇦
in reply to patricus • • •@patricus @Madagascar_Sky I'd argue game developers don't want to see their blood, sweat and years of life be flushed down the drain after a couple years on the market.
As a professional in the field of game developement I am always sad to learn a game I was working on has been killed or never saw the light of day. Yeah it's a job, but it's also art.
In another 25 years games that come out today will be considered retro.
And possibly almost none of the big ones will be playable still...
unfa🇺🇦
in reply to patricus • • •hacknorris
in reply to unfa🇺🇦 • • •Madagascar_Sky
in reply to hacknorris • • •@hacknorris
As one of my favourite youtubers likes to say
"You may not fuck with politics, but politics will fuck with you."
This isn't to get you to sign. It's just an observation on your situation. I would like it if you did sign though.
hacknorris
in reply to Madagascar_Sky • • •Madagascar_Sky
in reply to hacknorris • • •@hacknorris
Oh yeah, this is EU gov website, not some rando petition website. If you didn't know now you know. If this matters to you.
This is a gov website (the one hosting the petition to be heard in the EU Parliament).
hacknorris
in reply to Madagascar_Sky • • •unfa🇺🇦
in reply to hacknorris • • •Otherwise, I could write a bot that submits 600 000 votes using random names and IDs - would you want EU to accept such votes for proposing law changes?
Then maybe this is a rare case of a good use for your gov't ID...
hacknorris
in reply to unfa🇺🇦 • • •Mazzo
in reply to unfa🇺🇦 • • •until 31.07.2025.. it's amazing how much signatures where gathered in a very short amount of time!
i was looking at the signatures 2 weeks ago, it was at ~400k (the bar was below 50% for sure?) .. it now is almost done!
makes me happy ! 🥳
i'll push the link, just for the sake of completeness
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/…
also Ross was positively supprised buy the traction it got again(after the flame war) he tells here:
youtube.com/watch?v=3z4w_h2-Uk…
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