The Game Developers’ Association of Australia (GDAA) have announced Puzzle Retreat by The Voxel Agents as the winner of the first accessibility award at the 2013 Australian Game Developer Awards, sponsored by Epic Games, the GDAA, and State and Federal…
Year: 2013
A World First for Game Accessibility
17 September 2013, this fantastic news cribbed direct from the GDAA site: Australia is leading the world in making games accessibility a priority. The latest demonstration of commitment to enabling a wider cross section of the community be catered for…
Crowd Funded Accessible Game Campaign Needs Support
My Carnival hopes to become a video game for children with Cystic Fibrosis. If it reaches it’s funding total, it will be released free of charge on PC. It’s a laudable project, by the proven and brilliant AccessAble Games, but it…
Game Accessibility Code
A collaborative coding site is now available for everyone who wants join, to ease implementation of accessibility solutions in games, as described by previously published guidelines. Read more at http://gameaccessibilitycode.com
Affordable Eye Tracking with Developer Tools
Fancy an eye-gaze unit that is the price of an Xbox or PC Kinect and $60? Sounds good doesn’t it? The NUIA eyeCharm from 4tiitoo.com is looking to be just that. The device will come with developer tools including a…
Accessible Design at Global Game Jam 2013
Global Game Jam is an annual game hack weekend, where teams around the world are given a common theme to work to (this year’s was ‘heart beat’), and divide into teams to produce an entire end to end functioning game…
Kenji Eno (1970-2013)
Sad news to hear that game accessibility advocate and pioneer Kenji Eno died this week at the age of 42. Kenji produced the first ever audio game to make its way onto a games console, RealSound: Kaze No Regret (aka…
New Leadership for the GA SIG!
Today it was announced the current Chairperson, Tara Voelker, will be stepping down from her position while the Steering Committee, comprised of Michelle Hinn, Barrie Ellis, and Thomas Westin, will take control of the SIG Information on the website to…
Game Accessibility Information Symbol
The symbol above is a public domain method of marking any computer product (game, controller, utility, console and so on), as having easy to reach accessibility information. This can support potential end-users of a gaming product decide if it might…