The BSC Games Programming Resource Center is an outreach of BSC Games to the blind and visually impaired community. It's outreach is to help college/university students majoring in any type of computer programming degree learn how to program games using Microsoft DirectX technologies.
We at BSC Games realize that there is an unlikely chance that sighted game companies will ever build strong accessibility into their games. Based on this belief, we want to tap into our community and help nurture and breed new students/programmers on how to create games for the blind or visually impaired. Our mission statement can be conceptualized in the following points:
We at BSC Games realize that the majority of colleges and universities will not teach students how to program games and more importantly, games for the blind or visually impaired. In addition to this, we also realize that there are very few accessible books or articles on how to program games or how to program using DirectX. Based on this understanding, we want to offer as much accessible material as we can to help students.
The resource center is primarily aimed at college/university students who are blind or visually impaired and are majoring in a computer programming degree of any type and wanting to learn how to create games for the VI community. However, we welcome any person interested in programming games to participate and become involved. If you are not going to college/university for a computer programming degree, but have a deep interest in game programming, please feel free to participate.
This section contains various programming tutorials on DirectX. If you have written an article on how to program a game with any language, please feel free to write us about it since we would love to publish it. Please send us a copy of the article to resourceCenter@BscGames.com.
This section contains downloadable sample projects that you can learn from, view source code, run, add your own creativity to, and learn how to use DirectX technologies hands on in your favorite programming language. We are starting by offering a sample audio game written in Visual Basic 6 using DirectX 8 but would love for other persons to contact us with more sample projects to add here in this section but More importantly, in different programming languages such as c++ or Delphi or whatever language you program in. If you have a sample project that you would like to donate for us to publish, please send us an email to ResourceCenter@BscGames.com.
This section provides downloadable software development kits. A software development kit (SDK) contains sample source code, projects you can run, documentation, and tools to help you get up and programming with DirectX.
Coming soon... this section is in place to eventually showcase students games that they have written so VI community members can freely download them and enjoy them. The games in this section do not contain any source code, only the actual game to install and enjoy. If you are not a programmer, this is the section you want to read *smile*.
The BSC Games programming resource center is provided as is to students to download and study material on their own time. We do not offer any programming help nor training via email. Although we are not able to offer any programming help via email, if you have any general questions about the BSC Games Programming Resource Center, please email us at ResourceCenter@BscGames.com.
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