Chuck Bittner, a quadriplegic gamer, has started an on-line petition calling for reconfigurable controls for all games. In an ideal world, such a thing would be built into the fundamental design of all game consoles. Until then, game designers are…
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Electronic Soup Podcast: Audio Games
The “Access Collective” is a new podcast which brings together a slew of accessibility-bods including myself representing the Accessible GameBase and OneSwitch. No surprises, we’re doing the accessible gaming bit. This month’s item is part one of two on Audio…
Gamma IV at GameBase
For those of you interested in one-switch / one-button games, please take a ride over to the SpecialEffect GameBase Gamma IV forum post (you may now breathe). Out of the 154 games entered I’ve managed to track down less than…
VisionPlay Trailer
“Stemming from years of military-based research by Accelerond, VisionPlay is a revolutionary new video game technology that allows any low-resolution, off-the-shelf webcam and low-end PC to do full-body positioning and motion analysis.” Link via: Videojuegos Accesibles
Handheld Audiogame: Bandai Mousou Controller
GameSetWatch recently posted about the Mousou or Moucon range of mini handheld video games, with the twist being that you have no screen. You have to play by sound and feel alone. in short, they’re hand-held audio-games. There are three…
Accessible Gamebase
SpecialEffect launch their Accessible Gamebase today and it’s a big deal. They are hoping to build an active community and are actively encouraging people to contribute. After a little familiarisation you’ll hopefully find it really easy to learn all about…
Top 10 One-Switch Games: 2000-09
I like one-switch games, you may have noticed. Satisfying the list-making-retentive in me, here’s my personal top 10 one switch games of the last decade, 2000-09 (I’m trying not to say ‘noughties’). Things have come such a long-way since 2000,…
Gamma 4: One-Button Game Competition
Potentially very exciting news for game programmers and one-switch gamers alike. “Gamma 4” has just begun, a one-button game programming competition with games being unveiled at the prestigious Game Developer Conference in March 2010. My hope is that programmers will…
PS3 joypad game played with a Head Tracker
Fantastic to see a PS3 being uniquely controlled by a head-tracker and symbols based control grid courtesy of the SpecialEffect GamesLab. Read my previous post The Holy Grail of Accessible Controllers? to find out why this kind of work is…
XCM “Magic Link”
XCM were the first to crack Microsoft’s anti-choice circuitry enabling gamers to connect just about any Playstation compatible controller, PC mouse and/or keyboard to an Xbox 360 and PS3 with their XFPS adapters. The latest XFPS 4.0 takes with one…