Audio Games

My daughter likes to play video games.  She would love it if there were lots and lots and basically countless video games she could play.  Only there aren't.  She has to play audio games instead that are specifically designed for blind people.  

She has several and she's played them multiple times.  There's a new one she was in for several hours today.   She would be able to play other games more easily and open up the collection of potential games if she would learn the full voiceover capabilities of either the Apple or Windows operating systems.   

But she is resisting that.  She knows a decent bit from school, but she isn't pushing to learn more.  She hasn't found enough motivation yet.   Hopefully, she will soon, possibly this year in school, because it will open up a lot more games she can play.  

She sees, correction hears, her brother playing all sorts of games and I know it's tough to know she can't play any of them. 

The Level Collaboration: I came upstairs to ask my daughter to come down to help with something and she asked if she could have a little longer because she and her brother were making a level.   It turned out he was in a game where you can design the level and then play through it to see how well your design worked.  He would call out the elements and she would pick what to add next and where it would go.   Then he would play the game and let her know how it went.   She had to use her imagination for the whole thing.  Because she can't see any of it.   Sometimes I get very sad when things like this happen.  But she was loving it, even if the loss of her sight made me extra sad in that moment.