[games_access] list with free accessible games

[Sandra Uhling]

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

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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

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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
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