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…
Category: One Switch Games
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
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,…
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…
To Hell with Johnny
Michi.nu have a reputation for producing games with some of the best thought out and diverse accessibility features seen anywhere. Their latest, To Hell with Johnny, goes even further, as demonstrated in the amazing top video. Great accessible fun for Halloween. Expect to see…
TIG Duels
“Your Mother, taught you well!” vs. “You were never much of any thing!”, the goading is a huge part of the fun in Tig Duels: For Extraordinary Gentlemen and Such Etc. It’s a really well balanced, thought-out, barmy fencing game…
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…
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…
SY!NSO! (Xbox 360) – With One Switch Mode
About time! The Xbox 360 gets it’s first game with a one-switch mode. Forza 3 promised it, Bayonetta may deliver it, but indie title SY!NSO! has it right here, right now in the Xbox Live Indie Arcade. SY!NSO! is a…