[games_access] Fw: Gamasutra: bridging academics and mainstream gaming

[Barrie Ellis]

(sorry about previous e-mail, and again...)

Thanks for the link, Tim: 
(http://gamasutra.com/features/20061110/hopson_01.shtml)


I liked this quote regarding pursuading developers to take note of academic 
suggestions:

"Feasible for one person to implement. It's much easier to convince one 
person than ten. If a suggestion can be taken to heart by one designer who 
can then turn around and implement it in just his own area of 
responsibility, that's a lot more likely to happen than a change that 
requires the entire design team to agree."

We can refer people to "The Pyramid", "Archaist", "Clockwiser", "Demon 
Attack" and others from the Retro Remakes 2006 competition. 3 month time 
scale to make an entire game and add accessibility features. What's the 
main-stream developers real excuse for not bothering to add accessibility 
features? Hmm?

Barrie
www.OneSwitch.org.uk








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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Chase" <agdev at thechases.com>
> To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 5:38 PM
> Subject: [games_access] Gamasutra: bridging academics and mainstream 
> gaming
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>> Got this one today on my Gamasutra feed:
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>> http://gamasutra.com/features/20061110/hopson_01.shtml
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>> It has some good guidelines for taking the more academic research 
>> (regarding making games accessible in the context of this list), and 
>> presenting it in a palatable way to mainstream game programmers.
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>> Hope ya'll find it useful...
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>> -tim
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