audio games for the blind

3D Snake 

the first game i played was 3d snake, this game has no images at all however this helps you play the game as you are souly focusing on what you can hear through your speakers/ head phones.

when you launch the game music is played followed by the title of the game (3D Snake) and then a voice started explaining how to use the controls on your keyboard to navage the menu that you can not see.

what the person says:

• main menu 
• use your arrow keys to move up and down the selections 
• press enter to select 
• START NEW GAME
• SPEAKER TEST 
• EXIT
• OK LETS GO 

how to play:

"You move the snake around in a 30 x 30 grid world with your arrow keys. Your objective is to collect as many fruits as possible but avoid collisions with the walls. The walls are represented by a wind sound"

"If you collide with a wall just once the game is over. Fruits will appear at random times, at random positions  The fruits are represented by a "bing bing bing"-sound that continues to loop until you catch the fruit"

how this game makes me feel: 

even though i could not see anything on the screen i never felt like the game had bad controls because it was very clear when i was in danger and when i was getting close to the fruit, one thing i would say is this game could be better if there was come kind of indication of how many points you have during the game like in the visual version, however this might interrupt the game play. 

Blindside
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/600219258/blindside-the-audio-adventure-video-game

blind side is an attempt to create a survival horror game only using sound to create atmosphere that would usually be created with graphics/ visual displays.

 star trek final conflict

the first thing you hear is the iconic star trek theme song followed by a disclaimer, after the intro has ended you are shot into the game, you use the arrow keys to select options within menus.

this is as far as i got with this game as i couldn't work out what was going on.