Came across some games of an Israeli flash game developer (among other things) Eyal Shahar, and one of his games really amazed me - Blind Shooter, the idea behind it is so creative and so "out of the box".

The purpose of the game is to shoot birds of some sort (why birds...) by aiming with the left and right arrows, while you can't see a thing ("see" on the screen shot on your left...).

So how do I know where to shoot? By listening of course... you heard me!

When the target (the poor bird) is to the right of me, I'll hear her voice in the right earphone, if the target on the left I'll hear the voice on the left earphone. In addition the volume of the bird voice changes to give me another indication of how far on the right (or left) the bird is (High volume - closer, Low volume - not so close). when I start hearing the bird on both left and right earphones I can assume that the bird is pretty much on my target. If I aim correctly at the bird, and "kill" it, I'll just stop hearing that bird. (I presume that no real birds died in making of this game :).

It really made me feel blind and helpless, that it made me wish that the indications that were given during the game, were much stronger, but I guess the life of a blind is not that easy, and I feel it is important for us to appreciate and understand it. So go and experience it.

More over the idea behind Blind Shooter is so creative and so "out of the box" and I just love it!

Can't wait to see what will be next, meanwhile I'm going to play again with some of the other games he developed, like this other really innovative one called PAH! - A Voice controlled game.