Wei Lian's Blog

dear all,

A new Webisode is up on the web. Do click on the Wei Lian's Album Blog and Wei Lian's You Tube Channel to view the clip.

yo yo! my second podcast is on another simple game, bop it ultimate, by
http://www.lighttechinteractive.com

bop it was a quite popular game in the 90s or 80s, info about this game can
surely be found on google or wikipedia.

this game is also free. what's more we can play against friends online
through the internet. and unlike the 2 games i demoed in my previous
podcast, bop it ultimate do not require a good sense of direction or involve
having to centralise any sound accurately in order to play well. this game
is all about reaction, concentration, and of course determination! in my
opinion, having a good sense of hearing has no advantage over those who
don't at all.

looking forward to playing online with some of u in the near future. u guys
can always look for me and some others who play this game, ppl like me,
steady, or even edwin on twitter and if time permits, games can be arranged.
do download the game and do read the game documentation carefully before
proceeding with the game itself k?

enjoy!

Click here to download the file.

yo yo! some time back, over twitter when me and a few blind pals of mine
were discussing about games that are specially made for blind ppl to
play, quite a number of my twitter followers actually express some
interests/curiousities in the fact that how are blind ppl going to play for
example, car racing games, war games,multiplayer card games sports games etc
just only by hand ear coordination? well, over these 10 years, yours truly,
prior to recently starting to play certain games on the wii, i have actually
been quite involved with games that are specially made for blind ppl to pass
time, compete amongst themselves, or even playing over the internet with
friends and fellow gamers from around the world. a lot of these games are
programmed by some very young blind programmers themselves.

almost all of the games that are accessible for the blind that are out there
today are actually only audio based. that means, the screen is totally blank
or simply a logo of the company that made that game will be always on the
screen staring back at u if u were to have the ability to stare at the
screen which means, if u can see la haha!

responding to several requests by my followers on twitter, i actually took
some time to record a little podcast of sorts to try to introduce the world
of gaming to u guys from a blind person's prospective. enjoying a game just
by listening to and responding to sounds/audio queues alone sounds kind of
impossible to most of u i know but i will try my best to convince u all on
that haha.

anybody who wants to try out these games will have to put on
earphones/headphones and make sure that they do not have their left/right
positions reversed, as the world of stereo sound is really very important in
the world of gaming when seeing is not going to help u. whenever it comes to
aiming,walking towards a particular object bla bla, the player will have to
listen carefully to the position of the sound/object that they are targeting
or aiming towards. let me give some examples.

in a maize game, u are walking down a coridor and u suddenly hear and echo
of your own foot steps on your right, this simply means that there is an
opening to the right and u have an option to go rightwards.

in GMA Game's tank commander, which u are a tank commander commanding a tank
through various missions to achieve different objectives and goals to
complete the game, u are heading forward, u suddenly hear a sound of another
tank which is most of the time an enemy tank slightly to the left of u in
your earphones, so the naturally thing u will do if u 1 2 destroy that enemy
tank is to steer left until u get the sound of the enemy tank in the centre
of your hearing from there u can shoot at it with several weapons that u
possess. of course, the enemy tank will try to kill u also la but with
usually more feebal weapons la haha but what the computer enemy lack in
weaponery power, they do hugely outnumber me!

the 2 above mentioned games are actually 2 of my personal favourites, but
they do cost some money to purchase though haha, but to me, it's definitely
well worth the 30-40 usd.

there are really many many many more different kinds of game out there. some
i have to admit, are really very kiddish and don't need any skill to play
de, but some are really tough and complex also. and of course, there are
also some so so only games which i personally still won't write them off
la because i still play them when i am really bored, 1 2 exercise my ears a
bit, or just 1 to find something to do to past time. these games i call them
pass time games. these games are definitely quite simple in terms of
learning how to play, key strokes needed to play, and most important of all,
these games are usually free of charge!

ok la without further ado, below is a file that u can download to listen me
first play my 2 favourite games to let u all have a feel of the sound
effects and how action packed these games can be, and purposely dieing to
let u all here how is it like, and then after that, i'll be introducing and
talking more in detail about 2 of the pass time games that my twitter
followers have downloaded and tried playing before. u can get the 2 free
pass time games that will be featured in this podcast of mine from this website:
http://www.l-works.net/free.php u can actually get a quite up to date and extensive list of accessible games
for the blind on
http://www.audiogames.net
but i would not advise u to go straight there and randomly select a game at
random to try try la because some of the games there are really super
childish and needless of any skill to play and i don't 1 2 ruin the
impression of something still so new to all of u just because u guys picked
the wrong game to try out. , and some are really too complicated for newbies
of audio games.

if u like what u hear, and 1 to hear me talk/demo more games, please do let
me know k? but no promises la k. if i got time to spare i surely will do it
de.

this is my first time trying to do podcast la, so please forgive me for my
lao ya and old microphone that i'm using to record this podcast and also
some little hitches here and there throughout this podcast k? looking
forward to your comments and questions. either leave a comment here for me,
or Follow me on twitter at
http://twitter.com/KelWL/
enjoy!

Click on the following link to download the file.

yo all. due to the h1n1 cases in butter factory, the fund raising event on thursday will be postponed till further notice. sorry to have caused any inconvenience to those who have already purchased tickets to that event.

ok!now for some more concrete updates finally! as my followers on twitter already know, i just came back from a meeting from warner le. i will be heading to taiwan for my styling and mv shoot in july le. estimated album release in singapore will be mid august. finally finally! everything is more or less 99% confirmed le! sorry to have kept u guys waiting for so long. hope everything will smooth smooth from now on ok!

Follow me on twitter at
http://twitter.com/KelWL/

hey all. i have changed my twitter user name from KelWeilian to KelWL. by shortening my user name, whenever someone replies to me, they will have 5 more characters to type le because of my shortened user name. maybe some would find it unnecessary la, but personally i like the idea of short twitter user names very simply because of the additional characters i'll get to make use of when replying to user names that are shorter! hahaha. it can sometimes really be a pain when all u need is just 2 or 3 more characters to complete what u wanna tell someone, but because of twitter's restriction on the number of characters per msg, i will have to resort to trying my best to either take out some words that may not be as important to include in that particular msg, or to try shorten words like that to tt, people to ppl, and to &, to/too to 2,and so on la haha. of course for those that are already following me le, nothing has changed, u won't have to refollow me again de. just that u will not see KelWeilian's updates any longer, KelWL has been born! and i hope he'll be sticking to this name for good for as long as twitter exist.

so, for those who still haven't give twitter a good look see, pls try to when u have the time k? u'll never know what kind of shou huos u might get from this simple to use and great program to not only let others know of what u are up to at any time of the day, but also by following others also knowing what they are up to also.

to follow me on twitter please go to:
http://twitter.com/KelWL/