[games_access] Robert Florio's movie. New copy?

[d. michelle hinn]

Hi Robert -- same here! Thanks!

Michelle


>Hi Robert, I'd like a copy of your new DVD please. Thanks!

>

>-Reid

>

>On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Robert Florio 

><arthit73 at cablespeed.com> wrote:

>>  Attention anyone who bought a copy of my documentary.  Play at all or you

>>  were not able to finish watching the movie because of technical problems

>>  reading the desk please let me know send me a message off line of this list

>>  and I'll send you a new copy.  I had copies made professionally from an

>>  outsourced company.  Should have no problem watching them now.  Thanks.

>>

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>>

>>  Robert

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>>  arthit73 at cablespeed.com

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>>  From: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org]

>>  On Behalf Of Barrie Ellis

>>  Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:52 AM

>>  To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List

>>  Subject: Re: [games_access] Games for Health 2008 and Game

>>  AccessibilityWorkshop

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>>  Thanks Michelle - great post. I've blogged a little of these simultaneous

>>  two events on-line:

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>>http://gameaccessibility.blogspot.com/2008/05/games-for-health-2008-game.html

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>>  We had a fascinating few of hours at the Game Accessibility Workshop. Got a

>>  chance to speak to the lead figures in the development of the quiz-game Buzz

>>  (which has been a huge success in the UK) as well as a guy developing GPS

>>  based games to get people gaming outdoors.

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>>  A short video that Robert Florio has posted previously opened proceedings -

>>  followed by a lot of discussion with people from a wide range of

>>  backgrounds.

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>>  An accessible game play area was put on - including audio games (including

>>  those played on a handheld Nintendo) - my old favourite - Star Trigon (Namco

>>  Jamma coin-op game) and Shenmue Darts with an Ultimarc iPac - to show how

>>  easy it can be to create tailor made controls. I also demonstrated what you

>>  can do with Space Invaders on MAME. I used 4Noah to reduce left and right

>>  down to a single button. I used an adapted controller and JoyToKey to

>>  connect a large single button. I used MAME cheats to turn on Auto-fire, and

>>  also to turn off the Space Invaders firing back. I then kicked in CPU Killer

>>  to slow the game down further. Sensing that I was possibly baffling some of

>>  the audience with the complexity needed - I also showed off "Aurikon" which

>>  is a one-button game from the off with excellent speed and difficulty

>>  options - and featuring a one-button scan and select menu...

>>

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>>  Tried to get across to the Buzz team that it would have made all the

>>  difference for some gamers to be able to use their own controllers (i.e.

>>  include JoyPad compatibility) - and also to the option to switch off the

>>  timer.

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>>  Buzz does have some great accessibility features already though - relatively

>>  simple controls - quick start options - frequent instructions that can be

>>  skipped. The school version of Buzz also had removed the berating the

>>  last-placed player received - with the hope that this would reduce any

>>  bullying. I did mention that I thought this was a great idea. Everybody's

>>  Golf gets a bit annoying when you putt the ball over par and your character

>>  falls to the ground in dispair and the crowd boo you. Would be nice to turn

>>  that off - as to putt the ball at all for some gamers is a great

>>  achievement...

>>

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>>

>>  Anyway - very enjoyable day - which I can thank Graham McAllister and Hilary

>>  Smith at the University of Sussex for.

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>>  Barrie

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>>  www.OneSwitch.org.uk

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>>  ----- Original Message -----

>>

>>  From: d. michelle hinn

>>

>>  To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List

>>

>>  Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:43 PM

>>

>>  Subject: Re: [games_access] Games for Health 2008 and Game Accessibility

>>  Workshop

>>

>>

>>

>>  Hi Barrie and everyone on the GA list!

>>

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>>  Yes, a few of us were at the Games for Health conference and are submitting

>>  our slides online so that they can be linked to the video that Ben

>  > generously recorded of our whole day's event. So now we have a nice

>>  collection of videos that we'll be able to put on YouTube or whatnot for

>>  free so we can point game devs, government agencies, funders, etc to these

>>  resources to show a little bit of what we do! How cool is that? :)

>>

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>>

>>  The conference was great, although I sprained my ankle toward the end

>>  (believe it or not it happen when I was walking barefoot in the rain and NOT

>>  when I was wearing my infamous way too high heeled shoes. Lol. I'm ok --

>>  just have a splint -- no breaks. I think it's a bit funny, actually, so if

>>  you feel like laughing...please do! I am! :D

>>

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>>  So we had an all day workshop where we had talks by old and new friends!

>>  Lots of very interesting and diverse talks and it was well received. I'm

>>  writing an article for AbleGamers right now that can be co-linked from our

>>  blog and anyone else's. I thought that it would be good to get an official

>>  report up in as many venues as possible and with AbleGamers we now can reach

>>  so many more consumers than we ever have as a SIG. So I'd like to thank Mark

>>  and Stephanie from there for helping us grow this side of things that we

>>  haven't been able to get to because we're more industry focused most of the

>>  time. AbleGamers is not a "SIG" site but both Mark and Steph are memberss of

>>  the SIG. They have stepped up to the plate to help at GDC when I was not

>>  feeling well and then Mark delivered an excellent talk as well. So I just

>>  want to plug them again because as SIG members they have done a lot and the

>>  community that they run is top notch. I encourage everyone who is not

>>  already a member of AbleGamers (ablegamers.com) to check it out if you

>>  haven't had the chance to yet and to join the community.

>>

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>>

>>  Ah back to Games for Health -- In addition to Mark and myself from the SIG,

>>  we had Lynn talking about accessible gaming in the classroom, Eleanor from

>>  7-128 talking about the ALERT project, Giannis talking about "Game Over,"

>>  Kevin Bierre talking on research in the field of GA and how to include

>>  accessibility into the university gaming curriculum, Mark talking about

>>  AbleGamers and the gamers with disabilities community, Eric Walker talking

>>  about Strange Attractors 1 and 2, and Robert demo-ing the QuadController and

>>  his documentary. We also heard from some folks at AT for kids and Ben Heck

>>  (the infamous hardware hacker who had some cool stuff (and he and Ben Sawyer

>>  cooked up a great surprise for the next day -- one handed guitar hero (check

>>  out ablegamers for more on this -- Mark's already posted about this). And,

>>  of course, we had Ben Sawyer talking about how we fit into the games for

>>  health field. I hope that I haven't forgotten anyone! There were so many

>>  great talks and a LOT of diversity of attitudes (in a healthy way) about

>>  game accessibility. This will be in my article and I'll post the link when

>>  it's up on AbleGamers!

>>

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>>

>>  Anyway, I think we had a great first showing for a full day workshop and I

>>  know that we are all brimming with ideas about how to make our participation

>>  bigger and better next year! :)

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>>  Michelle

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>>  How did the Games for Health conference go - I remember we were speaking at

>>  the same times.

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>>  Robert, you'll be pleased to know that a short video clip of yours opened

>>  proceedings at the Game Accessibility Workshop in Sussex, Essex - which was

>>  very well received all round. I'll post a bit more later. Meanwhile - how

>>  did your talk go?

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>>  Barrie

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>>  www.OneSwitch.org.uk

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