AbleGamers have been posting about this year’s Game Developer Conference from an accessible gaming perspective. The most essential viewing has to be The One Question interview posed to attendees. “Have you ever thought about how disabled people play video games?”.…
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GDC 09 and Game Accessibility
Game Accessibility talks at the Game Developers Conference 2009 next week: Talk 1: The Story of AudiOdyssey & My Journey through UsabilitySpeaker: Eitan Glinert (President, Fire Hose Games)Date/Time: Monday (March 23, 2009) 1:30pm – 2:00pmLocation (room): Room 3007, West HallTrack:…
“Warhammer, the On Screen Keyboard, and The Reality of the Disabled”
AbleGamers.com have posted Steve Spohn’s personalised account of the struggles he has had communicating on-line within the confines of MMORPG’s (massively multiplayer on-line role playing games).
An Open Letter To Game Developers
Michelle Hinn, chair of the IGDA’s GASIG (Game Accessibility Special Interest Group) has posted an open letter to game developers over at AbleGamers. It’s a heart felt plea for developers to make more efforts to avoid disabling gamers. If you’d…
BBC Radio 4 – Game Accessibility – In Touch
Graham Race of MERU kindly pointed me in the direction of an interesting Radio 4 “In Touch” item on Accessible Gaming. It reflects the experiences of many blind and partially-sighted gamers. Seems Mortal Kombat can work out as a playable…
Subtitles: Increasing Game Accessibility
Gamasutra have published an excellent article that presses home the benefits of including full subtitles (aka Closed Captions in the USA) in video games. Read on here.Link via: Reid Kimball. More on the meaning of 888 here.
Stevie Wonder calls for accessible technology
Stevie Wonder is calling for greater access in technology: “ being more accessible is always a plus and I think really, for various companies … making it exciting and accessible for people who can see, it would take very little…
Default Controls Suck
Alt-Gamers.com is a great campaigning accessible gaming site best described by themselves: “The lack of support for alternative controls in the modern gaming world is becoming a major concern for many console gamers. With first and third person shooting games…
Alt-Controls.com and AbleGamers petition Sony
Established Accessible Gaming site AbleGamers.com and new-ish kids on the block Alt-Controls.com have teamed up to launch a laudable petition aimed squarely at Sony’s PS3 division. They want support built in at a firm-ware level for reconfigurable controls. The petition…
GDC ambassador award: Michelle Hinn…
…that would be pretty sweet. But not yet, Michelle Hinn, chair of the IGDA’s GASIG has this to say and needs all the support we can muster: “I am writing you today because one of the (if not the biggest)…