[games_access] first hello

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Steve? Who's Steve... ?

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Amit Pitaru [LIST] 
  To: 'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List' 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:03 PM
  Subject: RE: [games_access] first hello


  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 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 

   


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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 and 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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