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This is a resource for anything to do with accessible games. Feel free to add your links and other relevant information.
According to the Game Accessibility project, the game industry is expanding at a tremendous rate. Games have been growing in depth and complexity over the past years and have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment, with yearly sales exceeding 7.4 billion dollars. Many innovative developments in new media and ICT arise from the game industry. At the same time there is a huge increase in game-oriented studies at universities and academies.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of modern computer games do not meet the needs of gamers who function under limiting conditions. Limiting conditions can be functional limitations, or disabilities - such as blindness, deafness, or mobility limitations. (Source: Game Accessibility)
Why some games are not accessible (Source: Axistive.com)
Microsoft Project Natal - for a revolutionary new way to play on your Xbox 360 without the need for a controller. It's the future
More stuff coming soon !
This is a resource for anything to do with accessible games. Feel free to add your links and other relevant information.
According to the Game Accessibility project, the game industry is expanding at a tremendous rate. Games have been growing in depth and complexity over the past years and have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment, with yearly sales exceeding 7.4 billion dollars. Many innovative developments in new media and ICT arise from the game industry. At the same time there is a huge increase in game-oriented studies at universities and academies.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of modern computer games do not meet the needs of gamers who function under limiting conditions. Limiting conditions can be functional limitations, or disabilities - such as blindness, deafness, or mobility limitations. (Source: Game Accessibility)
Why some games are not accessible (Source: Axistive.com)
Microsoft Project Natal - for a revolutionary new way to play on your Xbox 360 without the need for a controller. It's the future
| Playing a race game with one hand | Playing a game with a head tracker |
| Playing a game with one switch | Can someone who is quad play video games? |
| Playing Counterstrike using SmartNav | Using combination of head track and voice recognition |
| Mainstream Game Developers talk about Accessibility | |
| AbleGamers.com is talking to Mainstream Game Developers Paul Barnett, Creative Director of WarHammer Online | AbleGamers.com Asks Developers About Game Accessibility @ GDC '09 |
| Advocate for Accessible video games Florio was paralyzed from the neck down at age 14 after a diving accident. These days, the 20-something is pursuing an online course in art and game design. The video game fan hopes to start his own game company some day. In the meantime, he has become an advocate of "accessible" games-- games that can be easily played by people with handicaps. Robert uses a combination of SmartNav, voice recognition and sip'n'puff. View the video and read more about Robert Florio . . . Video game technology gives injured war veterans a new lease on life. More about this story . . . |  |
| Switch accessible pinball | Special Effect Accessible Game Therapy |
Games Resources
- Game Box controllers by RJ Cooper - Adaptations available for all models:XBox 360, XBox, Playstation 2 or 3, and GameCube
Cordless XBox 360 Rear-Triggers Switch Adaptation w/optional X-Box with Rear-Triggers Top-Mounted Button Augmentation X-Box 360 With Rear-Triggers Top-Mounted Button Augmentation AND Joystick Extensions - Game Accessibility.
This website is part of the Game Accessibility project, a research project that focuses on the accessibility of electronic games for gamers with disabilities.
This website aims to inform disabled gamers about the availability of accessible games, and functions at the same time as an academic resource for developers, publishers and researchers in order to stimulate accessibility in games.
More about Games Accessibility . . .
Games links by disability group . . . - AbleGamers.com
AbleGamers.com is a community for disabled gamers. One of the most active site for news on mainstream games written for the disabled community, by fellow disabled gamers.
They have an active community, active forum, and frequently updated news. AbleGamers has interviewed the makers of Star Trek Online, Diablo 3, World of Warcraft and so many more.
AbleGamers is not just talking to each other about game accessibility; they are taking to the folks making the games disabled people want to play.
- PS3 Switch Access Pod
- For use with the Sony Playstation3
- The PS3-SAP allows full access to all of the switch functions of the SONY Playstation3ä handset through seventeen 3.5mm sockets.
- Both analogue proportional joystick and switch functions are also available on the PS3-SAP through two 9 way ‘D’ type connectors allowing the use of custom made analogue controls.
Image: QED - For use with the Sony Playstation3
- Game Accessibility Special Interest Group.
- OneSwitch. A terrific resource for Accessible games and the input peripherals needed by some to play them.
- GameBase - Accessible games
- Assistive Gaming - Tools of the Trade
- Accessible Gaming Gear
- Gamevial. A game arcade built for blind and partially sighted online game players. What they say about their website:
"Play our online blind games now free directly from your browser. All webgames on Gamevial Accessible were built exclusively and are available play now.
Gamevial accessible games use rich sounds, sound imagery, live speech, and in game audio, in game instructions and some pioneering online sound techniques in game such as audio pan which allows us to place sound objects in both 2D and 3D game engines we have developed. Some of the free games on this website will have you running about in 3D mazes and shooting the bad guys.
All games on this website have been built exclusively for Accessible Web games by the creators of Gamevial.com . Gamevial is a collection of over forty webgames built for free online play and online community for web gamers. The game website recieves over one hundred thousand players a month and is for seeing players, we believe in doing the same for the blind community an enjoyable game arcade and experience will grow.
Based in Edinburgh, UK, Gamevial developers had the opportunity to work with the RNIB where they exhibited games to the blind community, game feedback/link was very encourageing and using the feedback from the blind community Gamevial decided to dedicate time to developing games for the blind and launching the Gamevial Accessible Web Games game portal. " Gamevial . . . - BBC - CBBC. Siwtch games . . .
- eBility.com. Useful list of accessible games resources and links . . .
- Inclusive Technology and BBC's CBBC have teamed up to produce siwtch accessible games . . .
- Free accessible games from Papunet . . .
Image: Papunet website screenshot
More stuff coming soon !
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| invisiblebloke | Turn your whole body into an X-Box controller | 0 | Jun 4 2009, 10:12 AM EDT by invisiblebloke | ||
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An article on the BBC's website talks about Microsoft's Project Natal which is working on technology which would allow a gamer to use their whole body as an X-Box controller. Read the full article at:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-06/02/project-natal-turns-your-whole-body-into-an-xbox-controller.aspx |
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| invisiblebloke | There Isn't Any Game that I Can't Play on A PC | 0 | May 8 2009, 4:11 AM EDT by invisiblebloke | ||
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An article written by Corey Krull, Wednesday, 06 May 2009 20:41
Since I am the new person here and this being my first article, I thought that I would tell you about how I play games. Also, to let you know what accessible devices I use and how they are used. To begin with, when I must live in the real world, I need someone to assist me with just about everything. As you know, if you have any type of MD or disability for that matter, everyday there are many obstacles and barriers that we must overcome. Whenever I live in the gaming world, it's a different story. Once I am setup on my PC and in a game, I do not need anyone to assist me with anything. I have complete freedom and control to do whatever I want. I can become whoever I want to become, live in any world and/or age that I choose and cause all the carnage that I feel. This world is mine; if you are a friend, I welcome you. If you are a foe, you are still welcome to enter but just be ready to defend yourself or it will be your death. Unless, I choose to spare your life, do not expect me to though. Wow, I think that I must have some kind of God complex or something. But in all seriousness, which world would I rather live in? If you said the gaming world, you have guessed correctly. The only way for this to happen is with the right hardware setup. Assistive devices, How I Play quadjoy.jpg. Well, you are probably wondering how I am able to play any PC game. Better yet, you may be wondering what assistive devices and software I may be using. Everyone has their own ways of playing games and some setups are better than others are. Read the rest of Corey's article at: http://ablegamers.com/general-news/542-muscular-dystrophy-doesnt-keep-me-from-gaming.html |
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