[games_access] Building Accessibility foundation burned to the ground (was: BBC develops accessible educational games)

[d. michelle hinn]

Oh my god...I'm so sorry to hear this. I'm glad no one was hurt!!

Michelle

>Hi,
>
>For those who haven't heard, last night the building that houses the
>Accessibility foundation (which is part of the Bartimeus foundation) burned
>to the ground, see:
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>http://www.nu.nl/news/955836/12/Grote_brand_bij_blindeninstituut_Zeist_%28video%29.html
>(in Dutch, but click link "video" to watch a video of the fire)
>http://www.rtvutrecht.nl/data/fotoboek.php?id=142219 (click "volgende" to
>watch pictures)
>http://www.fotomiche.nl/cgi-bin/2006miche/main/index1.html?menu=zoekitem&id=778544689
>(more pics)
>http://www.accessibility.nl/brand/index.php (even more pics, now after the
>fire)
>
>Luckily nobody got hurt. The timing is extremely bad, since Audio Game Maker
>was supposed to be launched next tuesday. Although we have a complete backup
>up to yesterday's work, our software/licenses are burnt as well (Macromedia
>Director MX 2004 and Macromedia Studio MX 2004). This means that we simply
>cannot publish Audio Game Maker since we need to purchase new copies. Next
>to that, we have to set up a new office on Monday at a new location, which
>means that there we can't work on Audio Game Maker full time.
>
>We will keep you updated.
>
>Greets,
>
>Richard
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "d. michelle hinn" <hinn at uiuc.edu>
>To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
>Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:45 PM
>Subject: Re: [games_access] BBC develops accessible educational games
>
>
>Yeah...it might have been nice for a mention
>about the SIG helping too but they also forgot
>the gameaccessibility.com mention, which is the
>real unit of Bartimeus (as I understand it at
>least -- Richard can clear that up) that's doing
>that and where it would have been appropriate to
>mention the crossover the SIG and
>gameaccessibility.com, which has done the main
>advising. Oh well. It happens.
>
>Michelle
>
>>BBC develops accessible educational games
>>
>>http://kestrell.livejournal.com/312342.html
>>
>>"The Jam team have received assistance on accessible gaming by the
>>Bartiméus Accessibility Foundation"
>>
>>no less...
>>
>>regards
>>
>>Jonathan Chetwynd
>>
>>
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