[games_access] accessible madden

[hinn at uiuc.edu]

Cool Jason -- So for our game celeb contestants, here's what would be helpful to provide for them:

Info about how a quadriplegic gamer plays a number of games would be helpful, especially information on how much you can set up yourself and when something about the game requires a friend to assist. That, and top very annoying things that remain inaccessible to you when you play console games and what kind of controller set up you have.

The contestants are all game designers who have been in the mainstream gaming biz for, at least, 10-15 years...some much, much longer! So their challenge is to create a game design assuming that a large part of their audience will be gamers with mobility disabilities BUT that they may also not have a mobility disability (ie, fun and playable for quadriplegic and non-quadriplegic gamers from the start). They are also challenged to not come up with "crazy katamari nba super mario, part ten" but something way out there and is "new" rather than a game that's made and then, oh yeah, lets now think about accessibility.

Michelle

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>Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:44:51 -0600
>From: "Jason Price" <no1cwbyfan at cox.net>  
>Subject: Re: [games_access] accessible madden  
>To: "'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'" <games_access at igda.org>
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>   I'm a long time quad madden player if I can help in
>   any way
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>   [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of
>   Barrie Ellis
>   Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 3:53 AM
>   To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
>   Subject: Re: [games_access] hotel reservations GDC
>   2007
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>   Okay to post this link around now, Michelle? Noticed
>   it was an https address, so I want to check with you
>   first.
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>   https://www.cmpevents.com/GD07/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=3887
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>   Barrie
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>     ----- Original Message -----
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>     From: d. michelle hinn
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>     To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
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>     Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 8:32 PM
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>     Subject: Re: [games_access] hotel reservations GDC
>     2007
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>       > it's gotta be mainstream but also provide
>       something that focuses on
>       disability as a strength...
>
>       Sorry - I'm haven't had a chance to learn about
>       the accessibility-idol
>       project. But just a couple of ideas that maybe
>       can help the contestants in
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>       their first steps:
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>     Thanks Amit! So the competition will be live at
>     GDC in March and we have 5 very seasoned industry
>     veterans (We have coverages from Ultima to the
>     Madden game series) who have accepted the
>     challenge to make a mainstream game accessible for
>     gamers with mobility disabilities. So it's not a
>     project in as much a "reality show" style session
>     to hopefully pack people in to see what the famous
>     people are doing messing about with accessibility!
>     So basically what they need from us is information
>     on how a gamer who is quadriplegic plays games and
>     then it's up to them to design something awesome.
>     They'll just be presenting designs rather than
>     finished projects (too little time and they are
>     very busy people) but it will be a game
>     show/reality show presentation where one of them
>     will be named....
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>      
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>     The Accessibility Idol
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>     :)
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>     The GDC site for the session is at:
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>     https://www.cmpevents.com/GD07/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=3887
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>     We're hoping this will bring a lot of attention to
>     the issue of game accessibility for mainstream
>     games.
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>      
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>     Michelle
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