Below are the notes from the 2017 GASIG GDC round table. In line with the general feel of GDC this year there was an uptick both in attendance and in the level of AAA representation. Record attendance, lots of both…
Author: Ian Hamilton
Slalom, the Videogame
Wheelchair Slalom is a sport for people with cerebral palsy, in which the players go through a course made up of various obstacles and tests in the shortest time possible. ‘Slalom, the Videogame’ provides an insight into the sport without…
Attractor accessibility usage statistics
Attractor is a free video game with special accessibility options. In its development development, AccessAble Games decided to use one of the advantages of online games to collect usage statistics to collect accessibility options usage. These data were collected 3…
Attractor
Attractors is a simple puzzle game developed by The Game Kitchen with AccessAble Games as accessibility advisor. The game have special accessibility options like: no time limit, no death, possibility to restart a level at any time, change game speed,…
Conference on Video Game Translation and Accessibility in Barcelona
I International Conference on Translation and Accessibility in Video Games and Virtual Worlds: 2nd and 3rd December 2010 in Barcelona, Spain The I International Conference on Translation and Accessibility in Video Games and Virtual Worlds aims to be an interdisciplinary…
Accessibility Fusion: Combining different perspectives from across the gaming community to improve accessibility for players with disabilities.
The goal of Accessibility Fusion (http://www.accessibilityfusion.com/) is to generate interest in building an online community where game developers, players with disabilities, and accessibility experts can come together and share ideas about creating accessibility guidelines for computer and video games.Most mainstream…
Interview with Randy “N0M4D” Fitzgerald – Pro Gamer
Sometimes in life, you meet someone that became inspirational by doing something simple, something people may be doing every day. Randy “N0M4D” Fitzgerald is one such person. He plays video games. To be precise, he plays video games extremely well,…
GameGuard Shuts Down Disabled Gamers
Steve Spohn, game journalist @ AbleGamers.com, has done a great job on a story about how GameGuard, an anti-hacking software used by many Asian based MMO’s use disabled technology used by the disabled gamers. The story has already been noticed…
AbleGamers sits down with Chris Sigaty Lead Producer of Starcraft II
Blizzcon was a flurry of information on all of the newest upcoming titles from Blizzard. AbleGamers was there covering all the action for all of our disabled gamers across the world asking the questions you want to hear. AbleGamers own…
Visually impaired players: The unseen inhabitants of Azeroth
Great post over at WOW.com Linsy Smith writes about the visual disabled and World of Warcraft. She says But there’s a catch. Like me, Elfly is disabled. I’m a VIP (disabled shorthand for visually impaired person) and she’s (in her…