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

[d. michelle hinn]

Yep -- I have a giant list of people. The ECA (new consumer-oriented 
group) has also been great about getting me email contacts for people 
at companies. A friend of mine wrote me a special email program 
tweaked for what I wanted so that it doesn't go out as super-spam. So 
name the people/companies and I probably have their contact info or I 
can find out who has it!

I used my "PR program" first for E for All -- now it should work even 
better so we can send press releases just like the big companies. ;)

Michelle

>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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