[games_access] IMPORTANT: Vote For Game With Accessibility!

Fri Nov 3 13:13:07 EST 2006

Re: [games_access] GDC 2007: Accessibility Idol and otherAnother big OOPS - I made one mistake:

The winner is NOT chosen by vote only, like I wrote before, but there a jury of 3 people who you can influence with your vote, and 10 children will also form a children's jury. That all combined will determine the winner.

And a small oops: the prize is not 10.000 euro's, it's 20.000 ;)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: AudioGames.net 
  To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List 
  Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 6:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [games_access] IMPORTANT: Vote For Game With Accessibility!

  Oops... forgot some extra info. Since the game is in Dutch and you might not notice the control-explanation pics, here's how to control the game with just the spacebar:

  - press space 1x to start/stop rotating the submarine
  - hold space to move in the direction of your rotation

  That's it. Have fun!
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: AudioGames.net 
    To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List 
    Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 6:42 PM
    Subject: [games_access] IMPORTANT: Vote For Game With Accessibility!

    And although I'm almost halfway of the planet ;), I wanted to share the following news:

    As you may know, the Accessibility foundation is currently developing Audio Game Maker, an application which allows blind users to develop audio games themselves. One of the people working on Audio Game Maker is intern game design student Michiel Krol. Michiel has just finished a small Flash game for an important game design competion called the NLGD Game Development Rally. This contest is part of the Dutch Game Days (or NederLandse Game Dagen - NLGD in Dutch), the biggest event concerning games in the Netherlands, which was set up together with none other than SPILL GROUP (the worlds largest game traffic generator). The goal of the competition was to create a Feel-Good Game for the Cliniclown website. Cliniclowns is an organisation that focuses on activities that bring a much welcome distraction from the everyday lives of (terminally) ill children, such as entertainment, games, etc.
    Michiel's game is called Submarine and you can find it here:

    http://www.gameawards.com/award/deelnemers/024/00036124.html (the game is in Dutch)

    What make's Michiel's game different from the rest of the entries (other than the excellent graphics and gameplay and ...)  is that he spent NOT EVEN 15 minutes making it One-Button Accessible - in total (including graphics, code, etc.). To start the accessible version you need to press Backspace and from that point on, all you need to control the game is the spacebar.

    This is a voting competition, meaning that everyone can vote for the winner. Since this competition reaches a huge crowd, you can not only help Michiel win 10.000 euro's by voting but also help make people more aware of game accessibility. I would therefore like everyone to try out this game (especially those with physical disabilities) and vote for this unique chance to put game accessibility on the map even more.

    An interview with Michiel will soon be published on http://www.Game-Accessibility.com, in which he tells a bit about his motiviations and techniques.

    Thanks for voting!

    Greets,

    Richard 

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: AudioGames.net 
      To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List 
      Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:10 AM
      Subject: Re: [games_access] GDC 2007: Accessibility Idol and other sessions

      Hi,

      My mind is currently somewhere else unfortunately. Please feel free to use GA.com for the news. It's maybe easiest if one person writes a "press release" we can all copy-paste? And Barrie, I'll update your logo when I find time, promise.

      Ries

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Barrie Ellis 
        To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List 
        Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:20 AM
        Subject: Re: [games_access] GDC 2007: Accessibility Idol and other sessions

        Brilliant! Again - if I can help with sending bits out for the Accessibility Arcade just shout. This is looking really fun - perhaps we should announce this asap on our various web-sites and feed out to news sites, so we can improve upon past attendances.

        Nice.

        Barrie
          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: d. michelle hinn 
          To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List 
          Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:31 PM
          Subject: Re: [games_access] GDC 2007: Accessibility Idol and other sessions

          Just a quick follow up to my own email... ;)

          In case people were wondering how the email campaign to find contestants for Accessibility Idol went...it went really well. I'm still talking with a few more celebs and I heard back from a whole bunch of them -- even Will Wright! They were all super positive about the event but had conflicting conferences and/or they were caught in the PS3 and/or Wii crunch and/or just plain VERY busy. But a few asked me to ask them again for GDC 2008 and I think that, if anything, just getting the word out that the SIG's here and raising awareness about accessibility has been a success. So everyone -- we should be feeling GREAT about all the positive responses and just responses in general. We're getting there!

          The coolest thing? Is that our confirmed contestants are REALLY genuinely pumped for this and I don't think we can ask for better luck than that! Last year we had the tutorial...this year? Center stage! GDC 2007 is gonna rock!

          Michelle

            Hi everyone,

            Well, the GDC schedule is getting finalized and although we did not get the one day tutorial this year, we've got some really cool sessions onto the schedule! We've gotten old enough that we had to put most of the proposals through the official submission system rather than get our sessions through the IGDA so I think we did pretty well!

            (1) As you know, our "big session" this year is Accessibility Idol:
            https://www.cmpevents.com/GD07/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=3887

            Confirmed contestants include some very interesting characters who know each other well so it should help a lot with how smoothly things go (ie, lessen awkward pauses):

            * Ernest Adams (http://www.designersnotebook.com/)
            * Sheri Graner Ray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_graner_ray)
            * Sam Lewis (https://www.cmpevents.com/GD06/a.asp?option=G&V=3&id=240132)

            and I'm waiting for final confirmation of two other contestants, who I don't want to announce publicly until it's official

            (2) Then we also have the Game Accessibility Arcade:
            https://www.cmpevents.com/GD07/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=3759

            CMP thought that this was a great idea to feature this.

            (3) Then...there's the Game Accessibility Group Gathering that IGDA is sponsoring:
            https://www.cmpevents.com/GD07/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=3892

            (4) I just learned that our annual roundtable has been accepted with a twist by GDC Mobile (which is held at the beginning of GDC like the tutorials are) who would like to hear what we have to say about the latest rage in mobile gaming: one button gaming...or as we say "switch" gaming. :)

            (5) I'm waiting on our final proposal for a panel to talk about accessibility and serious games.

            Also...I know that the "who" part of each session isn't complete yet and I'm working with them to update that and get everyone I know that's participating in one or more sessions onto the website. So fear not. :) Get me your bio's and contact info ASAP if you know that you are supposed to be on a session and are not yet. Thanks!!!

            BTW, hotels are SELLING OUT FAST!!! I got one of the last rooms at the hotel I'll be at and, while they only list that one is sold out, the Argent Hotel is sold out as well and the Westin is getting close! So check out the hotel list at:
            http://www.gdconf.com/travel/hotels.htm

            PS -- I'm trying to figure out a time next week for an online meeting so rest assured...we will meet soon!

            Michelle

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