[games_access] New one button game?

[Reid Kimball]

Because as a general rule to all games, when the "continue/retry"
button is the same as the main "action" button, players risk
continuing by accident.

Their button presses during gameplay could be frantic and if they
suddenly lose, the "retry" screen appears while they are still trying
to play and then they accidentally continue when they might not want
to.

Regarding your youtube example, that's close to 99% exact match of
what I suggested. Glad to see it could work.

-Reid

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Barrie Ellis
<barrie.ellis at oneswitch.org.uk> wrote:
> Argh! "Press SPACE to retry".... Why do programmers insist on making players
> reach out and press extra controls that are otherwise superfluous to
> gameplay. So is this a Mouse, mouse click and keyboard game?
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> Anyway - how would this be for a solution:
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> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pbpI5Tx_58E&feature=channel_page
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> Barrie
> www.OneSwitch.org.uk
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reid Kimball" <reid at rbkdesign.com>
> To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:38 PM
> Subject: [games_access] New one button game?
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>> Osmos is a new game, currently in Alpha I think (meaning it can change
>> based on feedback)
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>> http://www.hemispheregames.com/?page_id=17
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>> Take a look at the video to get a sense for the gameplay. It's a bit
>> like Flow, you try to become bigger so you can eat others. You play by
>> aiming your mouse behind your avatar and then left clicking to push it
>> forward.
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>> This isn't strictly one button since it requires mouse controls, but
>> does anyone think this could be made to be strictly one-button and if
>> so, how?
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>> Here's one idea:
>> 1. The mouse cursor is locked to an orbit around your avatar.
>> 2. The locked mouse cursor rotates around your avatar continuously
>> 3. You hit the button to propel yourself forward and at the same time
>> the locked mouse cursor begins rotating around your avatar in the
>> opposite direction
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>> Any others?
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>> This made me realize that with switch devices it uses two types of
>> accessibility; hardware and game design.
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>> -Reid
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