[games_access] Kickstarter game project will add Closed Captions and Dyslexic friendly font

[Ian Hamilton]

I'd really strongly recommend against using OpenDyslexic until its designer gets some of the dyslexia-unfriendly  typographical issues (such as mirrored b/d) sorted out. 
He knows about the problems, but until he fixes them, there are far better dyslexic-friendly fonts out there. 
You have to pay for the better fonts, but you could add that in as a stretch goal.. ie. if you reach a certain level above your kickstarter goal, use that to pay for a licence to use a better font.
There are some games which already use dyslexia friendly fonts. OpenDyslexic is used in this one: http://jpsierens.wordpress.com/projects/. Sassoon Infant is sometimes used in kids' games, in the UK at least. Having said that though games that use dyslexia-friendly fonts are very rare, so it'll still be really innovative. 
Offering a choice of different text colours would be another really easy way to innovate for dyslexic gamers, simulating Irlen overlays. I have the hex values of the the two most successful colours used in them, if that would help.
I've backed and given a mention on twitter.
Ian
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> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 22:24:15 +0100
> From: Javier Mairena <javier.mairena at gmail.com>
> Subject: [games_access] Kickstarter game project will add Closed
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> Hi!
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> We plan to use OpenDyslexic font on a video game for wich we have launched
> a Kickstarter campaign.
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> We talk about accessibility on this campaign update:
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1042570429/the-last-door-episodic-horror-adventure/posts/361540
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> As discussed earlier in this mailing list, we wondered if this would be the
> first video game to use a dyslexic friendly font.
> Do you know any other game that has used some dyslexic font before?
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> Also, we would greatly appreciate if you spread about our project, surely
> many people that you know would be interested in what we are going to do;
> and we can only do that if Kickstarter campaign reach its goal.
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> Thanks!!
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