[games_access] My Golf Game - released

Thu Sep 23 12:21:50 EDT 2010

Hi,

A game is usually never "fully accessible" or "playable by everyone".
Imagine a blind deaf gamer. Can he/she play it too?

I personally do not like "everyone".
You do ignore people or exclude them. That is not nice.
You do discriminate them. And it is wrong customer information.

A good way could be:
We would love that everyone can play our game.
Of course we know that this will stay a dream,
but we work hard for it, to make our games as much as accessible as possible
and we are open for feedback and ideas.
(is the English ok?)

Of course the game is fantastic amazing, great, ...
But we should still use words carefully.

Best regards,
Sandra

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] Im
Auftrag von Steve Spohn
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. September 2010 17:39
An: 'Barrie Ellis'; 'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'
Betreff: Re: [games_access] My Golf Game - released

Hi Barrie and all,

As far as AbleGamers criteria goes, my golf game is fully accessible.  As I
explained in the article at
http://www.ablegamers.com/game-news/vtree-and-ernie-els-launches-first-fully
-accessible-golf-game.html you can use the mouse, keyboard, Xbox 360
controller, touch screen, and/or voice recognition technology - basically
anything to play this game.

The game play is near one switch, with the arrow slowly sweeping until you
click (mouse, spacebar, X button) then the power goes up and down once you
set the arrow and you click to stop it.  The menus are not one switch but
you can use the keyboard or voice recognition or mouse to jump right in and
start playing.

This game is absolutely the first and only mainstream golf title built from
the ground up specifically to be played by disabled gamers.  This is not an
indie title or something run on an emulator, Vtree went out and convinced EA
to publish a game specifically targeted to the people we fight for everyday.
If that's not a win, I don't know what to call it.  

Perhaps our versions of "fully accessible" are slightly different but I
don't know many disabilities that won't be able to play.  Even those who
could only literally use one of your big red buttons will be able to play
this once someone clicks on start for them. 

And for the record, I have to have people put DVDs in my DVD-ROM to play but
I don't count that against the accessibility.  It would be nice to have the
menus be completely one switch friendly, I agree with you, but in my opinion
that's kind of like someone giving you a Ferrari and telling you that it's
completely free but you have to pump your own gas.  

I'm just grateful for the Ferrari :)

Steve Spohn
Associate Editor
The AbleGamers Foundation

www.ablegamers.com
www.ablegamers.org

Find me on Skype!  Username: Steve_Spohn

-----Original Message-----
From: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Barrie Ellis
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:56 AM
To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [games_access] My Golf Game - released

Would have to play it first to say for sure. I would like to see a 
one-switch 3D golfing game where you can navigate the menus, and restart a 
game with the same interface. Don't know if it has or hasn't, but would like

a easy quick-start menu system too.

Not sure if you can reconfigure the Xbox 360 control set-up either. Guess 
I'll wait and see from a proper accessibility review via AbleGamers, the 
Accessible GameBase, Game FWD or Deaf Gamers.

I did like the look of things from this video clip though: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FL9gDtUkt8 - But can you play 9, 18 holes 
like that, or are you forced to use a point-and-click or Xbox 360 controller

interface? At this stage, I don't know. I'm hopeful.

Barrie

--------------------------------------------------
From: "Sandra Uhling" <sandra_uhling at web.de>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:33 AM
To: "'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'" <games_access at igda.org>
Subject: Re: [games_access] My Golf Game - released

> Hi Barrie,
>
> well they are talking with other (great) guys about more features :-)
> There is a vision and they are working to make great high quality 
> accessible
> games!
>
> What would you change at the current games when you could?
>
> Best regards,
> Sandra
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] 
> Im
> Auftrag von Barrie Ellis
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. September 2010 09:02
> An: games_access at igda.org
> Betreff: [games_access] My Golf Game - released
>
> I'll let the links do the talking here. VTree's "My Golf Game"....
>
> VTree's web-site: http://www.vtreellc.com/
>
> AbleGamers run down + money off:
>
http://www.ablegamers.com/game-news/vtree-and-ernie-els-launches-first-fully
> -accessible-golf-game.html
>
> IGDA GASIGS's 2007 Top 3 Accessibility Features for Golf Games:
>
http://gameaccessibility.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-3-accessibility-features-f
> or-golf.html
>
> One-Switch take on Release:
> http://switchgaming.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-golf-game.html
>
> It's not a fully accessible golf-game, but it is a highly-accessible 
> looking
> golf-game. I'm looking forward to reading a good accessibility review 
> before
> buying personally.
>
> Barrie
>
>
>
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