[games_access] Top 3 Top 3 and IGDA GASIG Awards Ceremony 2008

[Barrie Ellis]

Thanks, Mark - much appreciated. Robert helped too, and as I said before - 
it's just another angle to approach game developers from. Listening to some 
of Richard's concerns, I've added a "this won't remove all barriers for all 
gamers" disclaimer which I think is right. I'll sit on it for a short while, 
but then if most people are content/silent, I'll draft up an e-mail, and see 
if we can't get people in the group to start contacting game developers. 
Some help to track down the best contacts (Super-Michelle?, others?) - would 
be much appreciated! I'm not the most up to date... but here's some basic 
thoughts:

Pinball games: System 3 (developers of recent Gottlieb and Williams pinball 
games) - Cunning Developments / Empire (Pro Pinball - which had some great 
features on Dreamcast - including highly reconfigurable controls that you 
could map for limited one-button play - and speed adjustment) - Not sure 
about others - maybe contact the PinMAME emulation people.

Golf games: Clap Hanz (the lovely Everybody's Golf - which could still do 
with some improvments), EA for Tiger Woods, Nintendo (Wii Sports), Super 
Swing Golf (?).

Driving games: loads...

Barrie
www.OneSwitch.org.uk




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ioo" <ioo at ablegamers.com>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [games_access] Top 3 Top 3 and IGDA GASIG Awards Ceremony 2008


> Barrie,
>
> Despite what I have read to the contrary, way to go! I think the posts 
> look great and I thank you and Reid for coming up with them.
>
> Your classifications and wording may not be perfect but it is far more 
> information on the web today than there was yesterday about the subject. 
> If others would like to add to list, or branch out and make some new area, 
> I am sure there is room for that as well.
>
> Barrie, Reid, in short, thank you for writing something that ablegamers 
> (oh nice plug for my site) can read vs all those keystrokes on something 
> that only eight of us read (I know there are more, but at this point I am 
> sure that most people are deleting most of it).
>
> The blog looks great! Keep up the good work...
>
> Mark Barlet
> Ioo - AbleGamers.com
>
>
> Barrie Ellis wrote:
>> Feeling guilty - I've tweaked the IGDA GASIG blog to feature a "Blog 
>> Topics" area - which will be expanded later. I liked the look of the 
>> awards area... and thought - this is obvious, but... Why don't we start 
>> our own awards ceremony? It would be a bit of fun - and not too much work 
>> to start with I recon.
>>
>> Why don't we start recognising the games that have got some good 
>> accessibility features built in? We could keep nominations simple - and 
>> awards being a nice e-mail from us to the winners - any other interested 
>> press - and of course mention on our blog + site.
>>
>> Maybe:
>>
>> Best pointer based game (for head-tracker / eye-tracker / touch-screen 
>> gamers).
>> Best audio game.
>> Best one switch game.
>> Best use of closed captions / subtitling.
>> IGDA GASIG historical award (great games from the past).
>> IGDA GASIG special award.
>> IGDA GASIG best of 2008.
>>
>> ??
>>
>> Anyway - I've also set-up a "Top 3 Accessibility Features" section for 
>> particular game genres: 
>> http://gameaccessibility.blogspot.com/search/label/Top%203
>>
>> Pinball, Golf, Driving games covered at present. I'd appreciate people's 
>> thoughts, and also on any suggestions of companies to contact once we 
>> have a basic consensus. I realise there's lots of things not covered - 
>> this is not the point - it's to try and get some of the simplest concepts 
>> with the lowest potential overheads to the people making games (indies, 
>> home coders, mainstream - anyone!).
>>
>> This stuff stands on the shoulders of everyone's work so far - so please 
>> don't think I'm claiming this as my baby. It's not. It's ours - so help 
>> us to make it useful... Perhaps we should get a standard e-mail drafted 
>> (with further links for more help as it stands presently - e.g. Eelke's 
>> design patterns - Game-Accessibility.com - our forum? our mailing list 
>> and so on....
>>
>> Enough from me today I think...
>>
>> Barrie
>> www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>>
>>
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