[games_access] Thinking about GDC 08's competition

[Barrie Ellis]

Re. Richard's post:
>
> 1) Deaf and Blind: this is one of the biggest challenges of them all. In 
> that respect, I would not use it for GDC, because of the severe 
> limitations you put the designers in. Same goes for severe learning 
> disabled gamers. Although I was of the opinion I had a pretty good view I 
> could design something creative, fun and fresh for this target group, time 
> and time I was disappointed by yet another limitation (not a game project, 
> mind)

Really don't agree regarding building a game taking into account severely 
learning disabled gamers being difficult. I think that's quite easy. You 
could take Everybody's Golf / Hotshots Golf for the PS2, add a few tweaks 
and it would be great for many sld-gamers. You could do the same with many 
racing games too. I made mention of Sand-box areas for games too, as with 
Atari's I, Robot's "Doodle City":

http://switchgaming.blogspot.com/2006/05/could-all-games-have-doodle-city-mode.html

These off the top of my head. Wouldn't be a huge stretch to come up with 
something original.

I think the hardest group to target are MMORPG 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG) gamers with various disabilities.

Barrie
www.OneSwitch.org.uk