I’ve just received a scan of “Adapting Audio/Video Games for Handicapped Learners” by Karen Hughes – dated November 1981. Fascinating reading for me – and there’s an interesting parallel with the photo above with some recent work I’ve been undertaking.…
Making Console Games More Comfortable With Cheats
Thanks to work I’m doing with Special Effect, I’ve had recent access to games console cheat disks from Datel for the first time. These are something I’ve rather foolishly overlooked for the past long-time. To use you insert a cheat…
One thumb game – Zurai and extending functionality of one button devices
Over on Kotaku there is video of a mobile XNA game called Zurai that can be played with one thumb. What makes this more accessible is that the players’ ship automatically fires its weapons. The player uses their thumb to…
Emotiv Mind Control
Fancy controlling games with your mind? Emotiv Systems are taking this principle to the main-stream with their proposed $299 (£150) head-set. Read more at AbleGamers.com who are hoping to try this out at the Game Developers Conference being held right…
Blizzard Get It Wrong
It seems Blizzard have made gaming life much more difficult for disabled gamers with their popular game “World of Warcraft”. Very likely this was through their ignorance of the negative effects, but…. oh dear. To learn more, take a gander…
“Designing Games that are Accessible for Everyone”
Eitan Glinert has a fine article just published at Gamasutra. If you care about Game Accessibility – read some of the comments, which may get you a bit fired up. Maybe the title is a little mis-leading as very few…
Game Accessibility Arcade to be Presented at Game Developers Conference 2008
Game Developers Conference 2008 event to Showcase Solutions for Creating Accessible Versions of Commercial and Independent Games and Game Controllers for Gamers with Disabilities.IGDA Game Accessibility Group to Host; Corporate Participants Include Emotiv, NaturalPoint, and more. The Game Accessibility Special…
Xbox 360 Voice Recognition Controller
Also worth pointing out that AcidMods.com have posted a great D.I.Y. guide for creating a voice activated controller for the Xbox 360 (although it could easily be adapted to work on most other consoles). There’s a very clear YouTube video…
Voice Recognition for the Xbox 360
Mark, aka Cyberpyrot of his own website, AcidMods has created a very promising proof of concept for a way to play Xbox 360 games with your own voice. Word is that the delay between spoken word and action in the…
One Thumb to Rule Them All
“Mike Phillips is a gamer and freelance technology writer born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Using his thumb and a proximity switch to access his computer he is a prolific journalist and has contributed chapters to several books. Assistive technology…