Shades of Doom is a revolutionary Window's-based game for visually impaired people. The game is self-voicing, so no screen-reader is required to play this game.



Due to the graphic nature of the sounds, GMA recommends that this game should not be played by people under the age of 13.



Some of its features are:

• Dynamic and realistic multi-layered, 3D sound with up , to 32 sounds playing simultaneously which can make use of a stereo or surround , sound system

• Use of Doppler for realistic movement sound

• Synthesised 3D effects for non-surround sound systems

• Real-time game play, that is, the game is not move based, , and the game continues as in real life

• A true 32-bit Window's application

• Use of Microsoft's DirectX 8

• Full accessible help

• Optional joystick support

• Original music

• Many easy to remember one key commands,

• Ability to save, and later reload, up to 9 game snap shots,

• Ability to create Braille-ready maps, etc.

In order to play this game, you will need:

• a Pentium system 233 Megahertz or higher

• 64 megabytes of memory

• Windows 98 or higher

• Microsoft's DirectX version 8 software (available free , from the microsoft site).