[games_access] first hello

[Amit Pitaru [LIST]]

Steve and Robert, thanks for pointing me towards the game-accessibility
website! 

 

> I think what would be great to learn from you is the techniques and
technologies

 

Thanks, and I'm happy share everything I've learned. I hope that this
chapter that I'm writing will include the most beneficial aspects of the
project. Very quickly - it will introduce design techniques for creating
inclusive games with care applied to retaining production costs and overall
playability. I'll talk about what needs to happen from the hardware,
software and policy standpoints. I'll also demonstrate the techniques by
retrofitting a simple tetris game for accessibility (very preliminary beta
version at http://pitaru.com/tetris), and discuss how some of these ideas
can follow through to hardcore games. I hope to get permission from the
school to interview the OT's, children and parents. It's all coming together
now so I'll have more tangible things to show soon enough.

 

Amit 

 

 

 

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From: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Robert Florio
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:50 AM
To: 'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [games_access] first hello

 

Welcome Amit it's a pleasure to have someone with your experience involved
in this group.  Whenever we share together also check out
www.game-accessibility.com <http://www.game-accessibility.com/>  a few of us
including myself, gamers with physical impairments forum, moderate the
different forums for game accessibility.  I think what would be great to
learn from you is the techniques and technologies used to help people with
the game accessibility in Long Island.  Thanks for joining.  Feel free to
check out my web site and my artwork and efforts for game accessibility.  

 

Myself 24 years old living in Maryland United States a quadriplegic from my
spinal cord injury and I draw with my mouth and study game design at the Art
Institute online.

 

Robert

AI online SGA 

arthit73 at cablespeed.com 

www.RobertFlorio.com <http://www.robertflorio.com/>  

 

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From: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Amit Pitaru [LIST]
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:00 AM
To: games_access at igda.org
Subject: [games_access] first hello

 

Hello, thank you for having me on the list. My name is Amit Pitaru, I'm a
game/toy designer and also a part-time educator at New York University. I
also teach art at Cooper Union, and occasionally exhibit my work
(http://pitaru.com <http://pitaru.com/>  and http://insertsilence.com
<http://insertsilence.com/> )

 

I learned about the SIG while working on a chapter for a book on games that
is commissioned by the MacArthur foundation. The chapter is based on a two
year project with a special-needs school in Long Island, where I devised
hardware and software for gaming accessibility. I hope to tell you more
about it as we chat along.

 

So again, thank you for having me, I think I finally found a good home-base
to learn and share my thoughts.

 

Cheerio

Amit Pitaru

 

 

 

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