[games_access] Develop wrap up?

[Barrie Ellis]

Hi Reid, Hi everyone else on the list,

Attendance was low for the show, but explained in part due to confusion over 
the dates, and most of the delegates clearing off on Friday morning after 
the show party. So, we didn't have the greatest slot - but we did have a 
slot.

Amongst the audience was Ernest Adams (www.designersnotebook.com) who showed 
much interest in our work, and expressed a desire to include accessible game 
design in his future work. He's been in touch already asking for some 
pointers.

Others attending inclded a lady working in Virtual Reality linked to anger 
management and a few others.

The Accessible Arcade was fun. We had Giannis and Dimitris of UA-Games 
(www.ics.forth.gr/hci/ua-games/ ) demonstrating UA-Chess and Access 
Invaders. Access Invaders could be played by whistling!

Richard of AudioGames (www.audiogames.net ) and Game-Accessibility.com 
(www.game-accessibility.com ) was demonstrating a number of audiogames, such 
as Drive.

I (www.oneswitch.org.uk ) had Xbox "Burnout 3" playable with a one handed 
controller on a monster screen and sound rig. This game really demonstrated 
the need to have reconfigurable controls, due to the cramp it would give 
with the fixed layout. I also ran some head tracker compatible games and one 
switch games, including Namco's fantastic "Star Trigon" arcade machine from 
2002.


The talks were from Michelle Hinn, Jonathan Chetwynd, Barrie Ellis, Eelke 
Folmer, Giannis Georgalis, Dimitris Grammenos, Goran Lange, Richard Van Tol 
and Thomas Westin. These were all of great interest and turned up some 
interesting ideas... of which more later....

Barrie
www.OneSwitch.org.uk














----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reid Kimball" <rkimball at gmail.com>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 8:39 PM
Subject: [games_access] Develop wrap up?


> Hi all,
>
> Could anyone that went to Develop give us all a wrap up of what
> happened? Or did I miss that email?
>
> -Reid
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