Barrie Ellis, Author at IGDA Game Accessibility SIG

New Wave of Evil Controllers

Adam from Evil Controllers recently sent me photos of a couple of his latest joypad accessibility adaptations, which I’m sharing with you above. Top and middle pictures are of an Xbox 360 joypad tailor adapted for Randy Fitzgerald, a quadriplegic gamer known as…

7-128.com Accessible Gaming Web Sites Awards – 2011

It’s that time of year again, where 7-128.com have reviewed and ranked the best of accessible gaming sites. They have broken these down into three categories, being Hearing, Mobility and Sight related. Big hearty congratulations to DeafGamers, OneSwitch.org.uk and PCS Games, and everyone else…

The SpecialEffect Centre

The 10th of March 2011 saw the official launch of ‘The SpecialEffect Centre‘, including GamesLab, GamesRoom and offices. The images above however, are of my journey there the night before (sort of). I’d never seen LED cats-eyes before, they felt very Tron like and…

BlindComputerGames.com

“blindcomputergames.com is an information resource that includes: A set of guidelines for developers who want to improve blind accessibility in their games. An article for gamers who are blind to help them show developers how to make their games accessible…

Game Accessibility Campaigner: Gareth Garratt

Gareth Garratt has achieved something fantastic. He’s one of a growing number of disabled gamers who have petitioned for greater access in a game, and then been promised it by the developer. Facing the familiar problem of being unable to reconfigure the game controls on…

Angry Birds: Suggestions for Accessibility Standards

Kwasi Mensa posted an interesting breakdown of some of the accessibility features of Angry Birds and a wish for standards to read up from. He also explained how difficult it has been to track down a clean set of accessibility…

NEW IGDA GASIG Forum

Welcome one and all, to the NEW International Game Developers Association’s Game Accessibility Special Interest Group Forum… And breathe. Let’s just call it the GASIG Forum from now on, shall we? Game developers, designers, players and all with an interest in…

MLB11 The Show: Gets one-button accessible play mode

Really great news popped up in my inbox yesterday regarding Hans Smith one-man charm offensive to make one of his favourite PS3 games more accessible. I could rabbit on here, but I’ll simply pop you onto the first source of…

Reflections on Game Accessibility

The January 2011 IGDA Perspectives newsletter contains a two page segment on the ‘game accessibility year’ 2010, from my own personal perspective. If 2011 tops 2010, consider me a happy-bunny. Big chunky thanks to the IGDA, and especially to Beth Aileen Lameman for giving Game Accessibility such great coverage.

Real Time Sensory Substitution

The video above shows the hurdles event in Kinect Sports made accessible to players who are blind, using a technique called real time sensory substitution. Using video analysis, visual cues that indicate when to jump are detected and then translated into vibrotactile cues provided with…

Author: Barrie Ellis (page 2)

Author: Barrie Ellis (page 2)

New Wave of Evil Controllers

7-128.com Accessible Gaming Web Sites Awards – 2011

The SpecialEffect Centre

BlindComputerGames.com

Game Accessibility Campaigner: Gareth Garratt

Angry Birds: Suggestions for Accessibility Standards

NEW IGDA GASIG Forum

MLB11 The Show: Gets one-button accessible play mode

Reflections on Game Accessibility

Real Time Sensory Substitution