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Looking for help from Blind Fellows to continue improving the AudioWizards world (self.Blind)
submitted by ice_fi
Hi Fellows!
Are you interesting in getting a work carrier in the gaming industry? Here a small opportunity to make a step forward towards that dream, and helping us at the same time to create fantastic audiogames. If you like writing fantastic stories, programming, designing, playing, composing and playing music, etc, and if you have some minutes, ja ja ja, keep reading.
Enter the AudioWizards Design Competition! Inspired by the music competition we held last Summer, which was only open to blind musicians, and from all the great feedback we've received, this time we got not only one but six categories to choose from and submit your ideas and plans for!
The categories are the following:
\-Hat Design. Design a new hat for Endless Mode!
\-Enemy Design. Design a new enemy that the player can face!
\-Music Composing. Compose a new track for AudioWizards!
\-Story Writing. Write a new story setting in AudioWizards universe!
\-Character Design. Write and act out a new character!
\-Gameplay Element Design. Design a new gameplay element or a feature to AudioWizards!
Unlike in the music competition, this time we will also allow team participating. For each category you can submit an idea in teams of 1 to 3 participants. Each categories’ winning teams will receive a copy of AudioWizards (which you can also hand out to your friend) and a copy of our next upcoming game, MusicMaze, for each team member. Most importantly, each winning idea will have a high chance to be implemented in AudioWizards and the winning teams names will be listed in the game’s credits.
The competition will be run from 1st of October to 3rd of November. Feel free to share the competition to your hearts content!
You can take a look a closer look at the rules and each category in our website at
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You can also find a submission form under each category. Proper ideas on this thread and those submitted to our email will also be considered. Please read the rules for each category before submitting your ideas.
Feel free to ask any questions or list any suggestions in this thread or straight to our email at $1.
Best regards and happy competing,
myTrueSound and AudioWizards Dev Team
Are you interesting in getting a work carrier in the gaming industry? Here a small opportunity to make a step forward towards that dream, and helping us at the same time to create fantastic audiogames. If you like writing fantastic stories, programming, designing, playing, composing and playing music, etc, and if you have some minutes, ja ja ja, keep reading.
Enter the AudioWizards Design Competition! Inspired by the music competition we held last Summer, which was only open to blind musicians, and from all the great feedback we've received, this time we got not only one but six categories to choose from and submit your ideas and plans for!
The categories are the following:
\-Hat Design. Design a new hat for Endless Mode!
\-Enemy Design. Design a new enemy that the player can face!
\-Music Composing. Compose a new track for AudioWizards!
\-Story Writing. Write a new story setting in AudioWizards universe!
\-Character Design. Write and act out a new character!
\-Gameplay Element Design. Design a new gameplay element or a feature to AudioWizards!
Unlike in the music competition, this time we will also allow team participating. For each category you can submit an idea in teams of 1 to 3 participants. Each categories’ winning teams will receive a copy of AudioWizards (which you can also hand out to your friend) and a copy of our next upcoming game, MusicMaze, for each team member. Most importantly, each winning idea will have a high chance to be implemented in AudioWizards and the winning teams names will be listed in the game’s credits.
The competition will be run from 1st of October to 3rd of November. Feel free to share the competition to your hearts content!
You can take a look a closer look at the rules and each category in our website at
$1
You can also find a submission form under each category. Proper ideas on this thread and those submitted to our email will also be considered. Please read the rules for each category before submitting your ideas.
Feel free to ask any questions or list any suggestions in this thread or straight to our email at $1.
Best regards and happy competing,
myTrueSound and AudioWizards Dev Team
rkingett 3 points 3y ago
No. Are you kidding me? Don't do this as a contest where people will be doing free labor for you? Why don't you hold an application process and actually hire people. No. Don't do it this way.
ice_fi [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Hi. And thanks for your concerns. I will explain the reasons.
1- We are not asking to work for free. We are asking about ideas. An idea needs to be implemented and that takes a lot of effort.
2- You are not forced to participate. But many people sent us emails offering their help and this competition is a way to reach for fellows. Some people just like to co-operate. We ask for help and they respond positively. That is one of the good things of this community. With the help of those friends we can continue doing audiogames. With the negativity of others, we might turn other direction and never be back.
3- Do you think we will get millionaire doing AudioGames? I'm struggling to pay the salaries of the people we have now, and two weeks ago I could not pay the small room I rent for them. I will never get the investment back, even though we are trying so hard. I'm not going to tell here how much it has cost to do the game and how much we got from sells. But relationship is now 1/10. So we still have a way to go.
4- In AudioWizards all the music was composed by blind musicians from all around the world. They got paid with 150 €. They got their money before the game was launch. I haven't seen no money yet and I have work selflessly for weeks.
5- I can't afford to contract you if you are not a programmer living in Finland. Experience on C# required. We have open two times a working application for a blind programmer in Finland. Nobody applied.
6- I'm working full time in University as teacher and researcher, and I don't do this for the money. This company, myTrueSound, is let's say my hobby, where I spend my money and my time in doing something I think it needs to be done. I believe in accessibility and the universal right for everybody to play nice games and have fun time. Is anyone against that?
7- The game is being translated to Spanish now by blind fellows. They get paid for their work. We are looking for a voice actor, also from the blind community, who will get paid with 300 €. More than that we can't offer at this moment, because my bank account is empty. Should I stop because people think is unfair I look for help. No, absolutely not, at least not yet.
I wish we could drink a cup of tea together and chat friendly about this things. Criticism is okei, but do it carefully and once you know all the facts. That is the fair thing.
Best regards and have a nice week
1- We are not asking to work for free. We are asking about ideas. An idea needs to be implemented and that takes a lot of effort.
2- You are not forced to participate. But many people sent us emails offering their help and this competition is a way to reach for fellows. Some people just like to co-operate. We ask for help and they respond positively. That is one of the good things of this community. With the help of those friends we can continue doing audiogames. With the negativity of others, we might turn other direction and never be back.
3- Do you think we will get millionaire doing AudioGames? I'm struggling to pay the salaries of the people we have now, and two weeks ago I could not pay the small room I rent for them. I will never get the investment back, even though we are trying so hard. I'm not going to tell here how much it has cost to do the game and how much we got from sells. But relationship is now 1/10. So we still have a way to go.
4- In AudioWizards all the music was composed by blind musicians from all around the world. They got paid with 150 €. They got their money before the game was launch. I haven't seen no money yet and I have work selflessly for weeks.
5- I can't afford to contract you if you are not a programmer living in Finland. Experience on C# required. We have open two times a working application for a blind programmer in Finland. Nobody applied.
6- I'm working full time in University as teacher and researcher, and I don't do this for the money. This company, myTrueSound, is let's say my hobby, where I spend my money and my time in doing something I think it needs to be done. I believe in accessibility and the universal right for everybody to play nice games and have fun time. Is anyone against that?
7- The game is being translated to Spanish now by blind fellows. They get paid for their work. We are looking for a voice actor, also from the blind community, who will get paid with 300 €. More than that we can't offer at this moment, because my bank account is empty. Should I stop because people think is unfair I look for help. No, absolutely not, at least not yet.
I wish we could drink a cup of tea together and chat friendly about this things. Criticism is okei, but do it carefully and once you know all the facts. That is the fair thing.
Best regards and have a nice week
rkingett 0 points 3y ago
First of all, you desperately need a PR manager because that response was terrible from a PR point of view.
What you are doing is, in fact, asking for free labor. Set up a patreon if you want donations and to offer rewards. Take on volunteers, straight up. don't raffle off hard work like this, this is extremely bad from a company image point of view. A contest is a raffle. No matter how much work comes out of it, people will be doing free labor. If you say, up front, that you want volunteers, fine, but don't auction off hard work like this.
What you are doing is, in fact, asking for free labor. Set up a patreon if you want donations and to offer rewards. Take on volunteers, straight up. don't raffle off hard work like this, this is extremely bad from a company image point of view. A contest is a raffle. No matter how much work comes out of it, people will be doing free labor. If you say, up front, that you want volunteers, fine, but don't auction off hard work like this.
TrippingWithoutSight 0 points 3y ago
^ this.
If you were making a free game, sure. But you're asking us to do free labor for a for-profit game. No.
If you were making a free game, sure. But you're asking us to do free labor for a for-profit game. No.
rkingett 0 points 3y ago
I hope many don't sign up for this, because this is extremely bad. Why would I do all that work and get nothing out of it? I was made aware this company also did a huge PR no no when they released their first audio game, but can't find that audio game forum now.
bradley22 2 points 3y ago
Have you posted on audiogames.net
ice_fi [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Hi Bradley22
Thanks. Yes, we are pretty active there. Lots of support. Regards!
Thanks. Yes, we are pretty active there. Lots of support. Regards!
bradley22 1 points 3y ago
That’s great :)
BlindOwl12 1 points 3y ago
Can you like… Completely rewrite the story first please?
Had to stop playing because it hurts me so much, The gameplay was fun but with a story like that it was honestly not possible for me to overcome the cringe.
If you want specifics on what I hated I can write something another time, I’m sorry to be like this but I don’t understand how so many people can enjoy it
Had to stop playing because it hurts me so much, The gameplay was fun but with a story like that it was honestly not possible for me to overcome the cringe.
If you want specifics on what I hated I can write something another time, I’m sorry to be like this but I don’t understand how so many people can enjoy it
ice_fi [OP] 2 points 3y ago
Thanks for your opinion. It is okay not to like something, even hate it, and I'm glad you shared that with us. However, we think it is good that people have different opinions and tastes, and that if so many people liked the game but you didn't, it doesn't mean they are crazy because they think differently than you. This being said, we would really appreciate, if you find energy for that, that you send us a DM about what you didn't like. We know it is impossible to satisfy everybody, but listening to your opinion it can help us to improve our games in the future. Believe us that we are quite okay with criticism, specially if it is polite and constructive, even though sometimes hurts. Respectfully
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