[games_access] GDC Austin -- top-secret launch. By David speaking!.

Mon Sep 3 17:57:34 EDT 2007

Yes I just figured out when David is speaking at the Austin conference GDC.

David Perry will be speaking on Friday, at 11 am, in Ballroom A.

The lady who is really in communication with him and will be there as well
her screen name is Tandy I'll have to get her real name see if you guys can
meet with there.

I told her about me and involvement you guys what we do advocate for
accessibility and I've told the whole group about what to do with the game
and I got many responses and good success for a good feature for this game
to be accessible.  As I understand if this game is made accessible it will
be the very first game at this large of the scale in production and with
this large of a company backing it.

Thank you and please get back to me what information you would like me to
give you and what you think might be able to do to at least get to this
conference to let me know what it's like and what you plan to do?

I'm trying to log into the wiki page to do some blogging.  Is very
specifically do it?  I noticed that clicking on the link of my name doesn't
bring up any information about me is there a way to get that changed?

Robert
www.RobertFlorio.com  

-----Original Message-----
From: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of hinn at uiuc.edu
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 3:52 PM
To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [games_access] GDC Austin -- top-secret launch. By David.

Re: Blog on website -- I am STILL waiting to hear when the new IGDA web
changes will occur so I'm working on a way to tie in the forums at
gameaccessibility.com to our wiki for at least the time being. In the time
being for that happening...please feel free to put up things on the wiki and
then send a note to the link on the wiki here.

Since I lost most of last week to being in the hospital, I'm running behind
schedule a bit and I'm leaving for GDC Austin tomorrow to give a talk with
Richard on GA/Game Audio that they'd wanted us to give since the conference
last year. I will try and find out more about Top Secret while at the
conference. Is there a formal presentation of it at GDC Austin, Robert?

I'm not sure what exactly is going on with my kidneys but I think that the
letters GDC have something to do with it since I got sick at the end of GDC
San Fran and sick before GDC Austin. This time was much more serious,
however, as my pulse/ox went down to 60 at several times...yikes.

Michelle

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 15:09:36 -0400
>From: "Robert Florio" <arthit73 at cablespeed.com>  
>Subject: Re: [games_access] GDC Austin -- top-secret launch.  By David.  
>To: "'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'" <games_access at igda.org>
>
>Report from Robert Florio.  Game designer on project top-secret.
>
>  My last report is that the game to the media at GDC Austin.  So if anyone
>is there and can get some PR release from them that would be great or
>whenever we need.
>
>Also in competition is supposed to release to developers in about 10 days
to
>actually make on game as the designers the gamers and yet been working
since
>April designing the game and will continue to hold control over design
while
>developers fight for our votes in the end to get the contract to build it.
>
>Demo.
>
>The demo should be available by GDC 2008 San Francisco.
>
>Accessibility on the game.
>
>I've been working with several members getting tremendous support in the a
>working on a mock demo of some of the game user interface controls for
>actually controlling the characters on screen.  It should be fairly
>accessible for people with physical impairments.  They're also working on
>the audio input and output so that it is great for normal players also
great
>for those with absence of visual and audio impairments as a gamer.
>
>Note.
>
>I'd like to start keeping more of a blog on our special interest group web
>site if that's possible again please let me know?  Sorry to hear about you
>being sick Michelle.
>
>Meeting anyone?  About top-secret?
>
>I can meet next week with anyone.
>
>MSN. arthit73 at cablespeed.com use that to connect with me.
>
>Thursday, August 6.  1 p.m. Eastern time.
>
>Thanks.
>Robert
>
>www.RobertFlorio.com   
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org]
>On Behalf Of hinn at uiuc.edu
>Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 5:41 PM
>To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
>Subject: [games_access] GDC Austin -- Michelle and Richard
>
>Hi all,
>
>Richard and I were asked to give a talk on game accessibility "when audio
IS
>the way you play the game" and that's this next week. As for this past
>week...I was in hospital wednesday until about now with no email
>access...but I was so sick i didn't care. damn kidneys. anyway no meetings
>this next week unless one of the committee chairs would like to run a
>meeting on the concerns/projects/etc of their committee  -- I'll let them
>announce that on their own.
>
>When I return we'll give one more stab a figuring out a monthly meeting
>sched...part 78! :D
>
>Michelle
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