[games_access] E for All -- Let the Post Mortem Begin!

[Barrie Ellis]

Mark from AbleGamers is giving the cause some great support here: 
http://ablegamers.com/content/view/117/711/

And I've yet to get off my back side and sort out a donate button for 
OneSwitch - but I will...

Barrie
www.OneSwitch.org.uk


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Westin" <thomas at pininteractive.com>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [games_access] E for All -- Let the Post Mortem Begin!


> hello Michelle
>
> happy to hear it went well, and you got some cool contacts with Namco :)
>
> how did you do on the donations front and where can I find the Paypal 
> Donate button (if you still are 1200 USD short?)
>
> /thomas
>
>
> 22 okt 2007 kl. 05.06 skrev <hinn at uiuc.edu> <hinn at uiuc.edu>:
>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> E for All was very successful in the eyes of those of us who were  there 
>> at the show. No, we weren't the "sexy" booth because we  didn't have 
>> money for giant flashing songs, etc but that didn't  matter and I think 
>> worked in our favor at this show.
>>
>> Yes, it was smaller than the old E3 but what helped us was the  number of 
>> press attention, other game company attention, and  consumer awareness 
>> raising that our booth got because, hey, they  took a look at our table 
>> with controllers that looked like bombs,  etc and the second they 
>> approached we were there to tell them what  on earth they were looking 
>> at.
>>
>> Media that talked to us include such diverse news outlets -- from  "stars 
>> and stripes" magazine (US military magazine -- they were  excited to 
>> learn about how our stuff can help soldiers who are  coming back terribly 
>> hurt learn to help with rehab and get back to  psychologically feeling 
>> like there are ways to enjoy life and that  all the work ahead of them 
>> does also come with the things that make  life worth wanting to live 
>> again) to the satire mag "the onion" (he  worried me for a sec but he 
>> worked for the more serious "a/v geeks"  area).
>>
>> Many of us had so much trouble getting to LA due to storms in the 
>> midwest and others (me) wound up in the ER TWICE during the show --  it 
>> seems like i have a nasty pneumonia and i also tested positive  for the 
>> "superbug" that is going all around the US. I've learned  that some of us 
>> are just lucky carriers. So no way to know what was  actually what but I 
>> think it was mainly exhaustion that cause it  all to implode.
>>
>> On that note...if we, as a SIG, are going to have a booth at GDC  this 
>> year, we need to REALLY think about whether people will be  willing to do 
>> the shifts to make this work. Since our   schedules  were so bad due to 
>> flights, we just went with "are you exhausted?  i'll take over -- you 
>> leave for an hour....leave the building." I  doubt any of us can say that 
>> this show wasn't pretty damn tiring. I  have been schooled in all things 
>> expo for major shows -- contracts  with five vendors, five unions, 
>> etc...whew.
>>
>> And all of us there have a legit post traumatic stress case against 
>> rockband (blackhole sun...black hole sun...blackholesun....)
>>
>> More later and I'm sure others will add their comments too as we  go. I 
>> think it was a really cool thing to give it a shot and I  think we did 
>> well. Thanks everyone for helping us get equipment ect  before the show 
>> and thanks to everyone who helped with booth shift  duty!!!
>>
>> Funny story before I close...namco? they were two booths down. 30 
>> minutes before show close today, they came over -- seems that they  have 
>> a lot of one button games so I told them about what 1 button  meant in 
>> our world and they were like "wow, VERY cool." then...they  saw our 
>> pac-man ghosts....they laughed and said that they liked  them and said 
>> that they wouldn't turn us in but did say that we  should talk to their 
>> legal before the next time -- and that they'd  help see if namco can loan 
>> out the ghost intellectual property as a  contribution to the cause.
>>
>> Hehe...always dealing with some kind of legal stuff but at least  these 
>> guys were cool. one was the dev on the popeye one button game.
>>
>> Now...I must go to sleeppppppp...
>>
>> zzzzzzz
>>
>> Michelle
>> .......................................
>> these are mediocre times and people are
>> losing hope. it's hard for many people
>> to believe that there are extraordinary
>> things inside themselves, as well as
>> others. i hope you can keep an open
>> mind.
>>  -- "unbreakable"
>> .......................................
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