From four at nucleus.com Tue Oct 1 01:51:44 2013 From: four at nucleus.com (Siobhan Thomas) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:51:44 +0100 Subject: [games_access] Reading List In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, I'm putting together a reading list on accessibility for my course and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of an already existing bibliography or simply suggest an essential resource whether that be a website, book, article, etc. Many thanks, Siobhan From steve at ablegamers.com Tue Oct 1 02:00:00 2013 From: steve at ablegamers.com (Steve Spohn) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 02:00:00 -0400 Subject: [games_access] Reading List In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: www.includification.com www.oneswitch.org www.ablegamers.com On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Siobhan Thomas wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm putting together a reading list on accessibility for my course and was > wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of an already existing > bibliography or simply suggest an essential resource whether that be a > website, book, article, etc. > > Many thanks, > Siobhan > _______________________________________________ > games_access mailing list > games_access at igda.org > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access > The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org > -- Steve Spohn *COO/Community Outreach Director* AbleGamers Charity AbleGamers.com | Facebook | Twitter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandra_uhling at web.de Tue Oct 1 02:44:31 2013 From: sandra_uhling at web.de (Sandra Uhling) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 08:44:31 +0200 Subject: [games_access] Reading List In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002c01cebe71$b0a617a0$11f246e0$@de> Hi Steve, can you send back the completed list to all? That would be very nice. http://www.ics.forth.gr/hci/ua-games/index_main.php?l=e &c=555 . Try out Terrestrial Invaders . Try out Game Over! . (Recommended use a glass simulator for seeing impairments!!) http://igda-gasig.org/communities-additional-websites/ @all Maybe we should add a description or make some kind of categories? http://www.gameaccessibility.de . "Empfehlungen" -> "Alle zusammen" (Note: English version will maybe be removed in the future) http://audiogames.net/ . Recommended: listen to AudioViews to get an impression www.deafgamers.com . "DGC" http://www.un.org/disabilities/index.asp Look at: . "Convention in Brief" . "It's About Ability" . Convention . . 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Oktober 2013 08:00 An: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List Betreff: Re: [games_access] Reading List www.includification.com www.oneswitch.org www.ablegamers.com On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Siobhan Thomas wrote: Hi everyone, I'm putting together a reading list on accessibility for my course and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of an already existing bibliography or simply suggest an essential resource whether that be a website, book, article, etc. Many thanks, Siobhan _______________________________________________ games_access mailing list games_access at igda.org http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org -- Steve Spohn COO/Community Outreach Director AbleGamers Charity AbleGamers.com | Facebook | Twitter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandra_uhling at web.de Tue Oct 1 03:27:53 2013 From: sandra_uhling at web.de (Sandra Uhling) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 09:27:53 +0200 Subject: [games_access] list with free accessible games In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <005201cebe77$beb45cc0$3c1d1640$@de> Hi, I thought about a list to give to people who would like to use games in education or media project with kids. Easy game to get, easy to install, to understand ... Regards, Sandra -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] Im Auftrag von Ian Hamilton Gesendet: Sonntag, 29. September 2013 20:06 An: games_access at igda.org Betreff: Re: [games_access] list with free accessible games The best example of this is Applevis. They have a fairly exhaustive list of which iOS games are to some degree vision impairment accessible. You can filter the list by degree of accessibility, and all by whether or not the games are free. http://www.applevis.com/ios-app-directory/games They only have a small number of games to contend with and have a large community submitting and evaluating games. You're talking about an up to date (ie complete) list of all accessible games though, which is a little different. Every game ever released is accessible to some groups, and no game ever released can be 100% accessible to everyone. So if you want something up to date, you would need a list of every game ever released, together with an accessibility evaluation of them all, which is not possible, especially not by an individual or small group of people. The closest you could get would be Applevis' approach, a list compiled by a large community of disabled gamers, covering all types of impairment. It would basically mean something like TripAdvisor. Unfortunately though that community does not currently exist, the existing communities are divided by types of impairment, and some of the most common impairments (such as colour blindness or low reading age) do not have communities at all. If you just wanted to research a selection, a few examples of free games that were suitable for various different impairments, I'm sure you could do that, but for you to maintain something exhaustive and up to date isn't realistic. There is another way though, app/game stores. Indiecity lists a range of accessibility features, and Steam have made a step towards it now too, showing if a game has subtitles and what languages they are available in. Apple now have a very limited single page of apps that are useful for various different impairments. The next step on is to make them into filters. If that was done, if there was a mechanism for developers to be able to state which accessibility considerations / audience types applied to their game, and gamers could actually search based on those criteria (eg. show me which games are free and colour blind friendly) then what you are proposing will have been achieved, but with zero effort needed for compiling or maintaining lists... It would all be taken care of automatically, using data supplied by the developers themselves. Ian Ian ------------------- Hello, can we provide a list with free accessible games? That could be very useful for other organization. For example we have one central list and other can link to this page. We can update it and it will be up to date. We need also the information if the games are free. Some projects do not have much money. Regards, Sandra _______________________________________________ games_access mailing list games_access at igda.org http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org From eleanor at 7128.com Tue Oct 1 08:57:23 2013 From: eleanor at 7128.com (Eleanor) Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:57:23 -0400 Subject: [games_access] Reading List In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <524AC6B3.9020606@7128.com> blindcomputergames.com (guidelines for making games accessible to blind gamers) 7128.com (Top 25 website lists for gamers who are blind, deaf or motion impaired) Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software On 10/1/2013 1:51 AM, Siobhan Thomas wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm putting together a reading list on accessibility for my course and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of an already existing bibliography or simply suggest an essential resource whether that be a website, book, article, etc. > > Many thanks, > Siobhan > _______________________________________________ > games_access mailing list > games_access at igda.org > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access > The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org > From jrporter at uw.edu Tue Oct 1 15:34:07 2013 From: jrporter at uw.edu (John R. Porter) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 12:34:07 -0700 Subject: [games_access] Steam controller In-Reply-To: <000001cebc6c$828d6f00$87a84d00$@de> References: <000001cebc6c$828d6f00$87a84d00$@de> Message-ID: Well, according to Valve's initial information release, they want the controller to be open and "hackable." It will be interesting to see exactly what that ends up meaning, though. So far, the only explicit things they comment on is that they intend to release tools that allow people to "participate" in things like industrial design and electrical engineering. And as for whether or not there will be an open API, that remains to be seen. It sounds like the controller is going to have at least a mode in which it emulates keyboard and mouse, suggesting that at its core it's using a USB or Bluetooth HID standard rather than something unique that Valve made. Technically, anyone can make controllers using those standards with off-the-shelf microcontrollers like Arduino and a little circuitry knowhow. For things like the haptic feedback, though, there will obviously have to be some sort of parallel channel for that info. And if *that* is made open to users to play around with, now we're talking ;) -John ** *-- -- -- -- -- John R. Porter III www.jrp3.net University of Washington,** Human Centered Design & Engineering* On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Sandra Uhling wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking forward to the feedback of the new controller. > I am wondering if the API is also open for other controller / self-made > controller? > > :-) > > Best regards, > Sandra > > _______________________________________________ > games_access mailing list > games_access at igda.org > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access > The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From javier.mairena at gmail.com Wed Oct 2 02:57:40 2013 From: javier.mairena at gmail.com (Javier Mairena) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:57:40 +0200 Subject: [games_access] list with free accessible games In-Reply-To: <005201cebe77$beb45cc0$3c1d1640$@de> References: <005201cebe77$beb45cc0$3c1d1640$@de> Message-ID: Hi Sandra! In my blog I have a tag about free games: http://www.videojuegosaccesibles.es/search/label/juegos%20gratuitos On 1 October 2013 09:27, Sandra Uhling wrote: > Hi, > > I thought about a list to give to people who would like to use > games in education or media project with kids. > > Easy game to get, easy to install, to understand ... > > Regards, > Sandra > > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] > Im > Auftrag von Ian Hamilton > Gesendet: Sonntag, 29. September 2013 20:06 > An: games_access at igda.org > Betreff: Re: [games_access] list with free accessible games > > The best example of this is Applevis. They have a fairly exhaustive list of > which iOS games are to some degree vision impairment accessible. You can > filter the list by degree of accessibility, and all by whether or not the > games are free. > > http://www.applevis.com/ios-app-directory/games > > They only have a small number of games to contend with and have a large > community submitting and evaluating games. > > You're talking about an up to date (ie complete) list of all accessible > games though, which is a little different. > > Every game ever released is accessible to some groups, and no game ever > released can be 100% accessible to everyone. > > So if you want something up to date, you would need a list of every game > ever released, together with an accessibility evaluation of them all, which > is not possible, especially not by an individual or small group of people. > > The closest you could get would be Applevis' approach, a list compiled by a > large community of disabled gamers, covering all types of impairment. It > would basically mean something like TripAdvisor. > > Unfortunately though that community does not currently exist, the existing > communities are divided by types of impairment, and some of the most common > impairments (such as colour blindness or low reading age) do not have > communities at all. > > If you just wanted to research a selection, a few examples of free games > that were suitable for various different impairments, I'm sure you could do > that, but for you to maintain something exhaustive and up to date isn't > realistic. > > There is another way though, app/game stores. > > Indiecity lists a range of accessibility features, and Steam have made a > step towards it now too, showing if a game has subtitles and what languages > they are available in. Apple now have a very limited single page of apps > that are useful for various different impairments. > > The next step on is to make them into filters. > > If that was done, if there was a mechanism for developers to be able to > state which accessibility considerations / audience types applied to their > game, and gamers could actually search based on those criteria (eg. show me > which games are free and colour blind friendly) then what you are proposing > will have been achieved, but with zero effort needed for compiling or > maintaining lists... It would all be taken care of automatically, using > data > supplied by the developers themselves. > > Ian > > > Ian > > ------------------- > > Hello, > > can we provide a list with free accessible games? > That could be very useful for other organization. > > For example we have one central list and other can link to this page. We > can > update it and it will be up to date. > > We need also the information if the games are free. > Some projects do not have much money. > > Regards, > Sandra > _______________________________________________ > games_access mailing list > games_access at igda.org > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access > The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org > > _______________________________________________ > games_access mailing list > games_access at igda.org > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access > The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thomas at westin.nu Wed Oct 2 18:27:50 2013 From: thomas at westin.nu (Thomas Westin) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 00:27:50 +0200 Subject: [games_access] list with free accessible games In-Reply-To: References: <005201cebe77$beb45cc0$3c1d1640$@de> Message-ID: <385DF1C0-2439-4AF4-B69B-CBA5AC808F42@westin.nu> Hi, Terraformers is free nowadays :) www.terraformers.nu Best regards, Thomas 2Oct 2013 kl. 8:57 AM skrev Javier Mairena : > Hi Sandra! > > In my blog I have a tag about free games: > http://www.videojuegosaccesibles.es/search/label/juegos%20gratuitos > > > On 1 October 2013 09:27, Sandra Uhling wrote: > Hi, > > I thought about a list to give to people who would like to use > games in education or media project with kids. > > Easy game to get, easy to install, to understand ... > > Regards, > Sandra > > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] Im > Auftrag von Ian Hamilton > Gesendet: Sonntag, 29. September 2013 20:06 > An: games_access at igda.org > Betreff: Re: [games_access] list with free accessible games > > The best example of this is Applevis. They have a fairly exhaustive list of > which iOS games are to some degree vision impairment accessible. You can > filter the list by degree of accessibility, and all by whether or not the > games are free. > > http://www.applevis.com/ios-app-directory/games > > They only have a small number of games to contend with and have a large > community submitting and evaluating games. > > You're talking about an up to date (ie complete) list of all accessible > games though, which is a little different. > > Every game ever released is accessible to some groups, and no game ever > released can be 100% accessible to everyone. > > So if you want something up to date, you would need a list of every game > ever released, together with an accessibility evaluation of them all, which > is not possible, especially not by an individual or small group of people. > > The closest you could get would be Applevis' approach, a list compiled by a > large community of disabled gamers, covering all types of impairment. It > would basically mean something like TripAdvisor. > > Unfortunately though that community does not currently exist, the existing > communities are divided by types of impairment, and some of the most common > impairments (such as colour blindness or low reading age) do not have > communities at all. > > If you just wanted to research a selection, a few examples of free games > that were suitable for various different impairments, I'm sure you could do > that, but for you to maintain something exhaustive and up to date isn't > realistic. > > There is another way though, app/game stores. > > Indiecity lists a range of accessibility features, and Steam have made a > step towards it now too, showing if a game has subtitles and what languages > they are available in. Apple now have a very limited single page of apps > that are useful for various different impairments. > > The next step on is to make them into filters. > > If that was done, if there was a mechanism for developers to be able to > state which accessibility considerations / audience types applied to their > game, and gamers could actually search based on those criteria (eg. show me > which games are free and colour blind friendly) then what you are proposing > will have been achieved, but with zero effort needed for compiling or > maintaining lists... It would all be taken care of automatically, using data > supplied by the developers themselves. > > Ian > > > Ian > > ------------------- > > Hello, > > can we provide a list with free accessible games? > That could be very useful for other organization. > > For example we have one central list and other can link to this page. We can > update it and it will be up to date. > > We need also the information if the games are free. > Some projects do not have much money. > > Regards, > Sandra > _______________________________________________ > games_access mailing list > games_access at igda.org > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access > The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org > > _______________________________________________ > games_access mailing list > games_access at igda.org > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access > The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org > > _______________________________________________ > games_access mailing list > games_access at igda.org > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access > The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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