[games_access] Disabled game characters?

Thomas Westin thomas at pininteractive.com
Mon Apr 19 20:03:42 EDT 2010


thanks Barrie & Jonathan! 
/Thomas

On 19Apr 2010, at 11:00 PM, Barrie Ellis wrote:

> Good call!
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jonathan Chetwynd" <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 9:37 PM
> To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
> Subject: Re: [games_access] Disabled game characters?
> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X-Men_video_games
>> 
>> If you dont know the story & characters, worth a look
>> 
>> second only to the Watchers in my youth
>> 
>> ~:"
>> 
>> 
>> On 19 Apr 2010, at 20:19, thomas at pininteractive.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> A few years ago a couple of my students made a 3d game with the PhysX
>>> engine, called "Wheelchair parkour". This got me thinking about to
>>> what extent are there game characters with disabilities? I can't think
>>> of any one at all. Can this be true?
>>> 
>>> Of course, you could argue that when playing a game you want to have
>>> abilities like magic etc but character appeal often is a mix of
>>> contradictions. So I think finding out the answer to the question
>>> above is interesting.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Thomas
>>> 
>>> (Sent from my mobile)
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