[games_access] Accessibility in Madrid Game Jam (Javier Mairena)

[Ian Hamilton]

Yep it is looking rather nice this year, expanding again.

We've got 8 venues taking the same approach as Madrid, an initial talk about accessibility with some handouts to work from and honorable mentions awarded at the end -


- Vancouver
- London (SAE)
- London (Brunel)
- Bristol
- Leicester
- Melbourne
- Sydney
- Madrid


Bristol are taking it a step further than the others and making the accessibility challenge compulsory, every game made at that jam must be based on experimenting with accessibility.


At the others, accessibility is an optional extra only for devs who feel like taking it on, but every single dev at all of those venues will be getting the talk and handout, and between all the venues there are getting on for 1000 developers, so it is a nice awareness raising opportunity.


Then for the second year running there is an accessibility diversifier. That's again an optional extra challenge, just a single one liner rather than a talk/handout (Inclusive: the game is specifically designed to be accessible to one or more groups of gamers with disabilities - vision, motor, hearing or cognitive impairments), but that one liner is published on the main GGJ website and will be seen by every dev, over 20,000 of them this year, so again fantastic awareness raising potential.


Last year enough teams took it on to result in 80 accessibility based games being produced over the 48 hours, including some quite beautifully creative approaches (e.g. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PN0Jo_Z9pV4, and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aj75maKahBQ), and the GGJ event has grown by about 50% this year, so hopefully there'll be some good results again.


Again all credit to Tara for kicking it off, it is all based on her work.


Ian

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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:36:11 +0100
From: Javier Mairena <javier.mairena at gmail.com>
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Hi!

I just want to let you know that this year there will be a special mention
to the accessibility topic in Madrid Game Jam (Spain).

Also, at the end of jam, there will be a "best accesible game" award  :)

I have wrote a post about motivation and tips to create more accessible
games in events like this one. In spanish only:
http://www.videojuegosaccesibles.es/2014/01/accesibilidad-en-la-global-game-jam.html

Also I have mentioned at the end of the article the two great articles of
Ian about the same subject.
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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:48:11 +0100
From: Thomas Westin <thomas at westin.nu>
Subject: Re: [games_access] Accessibility in Madrid Game Jam
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Great!

/Thomas

23Jan 2014 kl. 12:36 skrev Javier Mairena <javier.mairena at gmail.com>:

> Hi!
>
> I just want to let you know that this year there will be a special mention to the accessibility topic in Madrid Game Jam (Spain).
>
> Also, at the end of jam, there will be a "best accesible game" award  :)
>
> I have wrote a post about motivation and tips to create more accessible games in events like this one. In spanish only: http://www.videojuegosaccesibles.es/2014/01/accesibilidad-en-la-global-game-jam.html
>
> Also I have mentioned at the end of the article the two great articles of Ian about the same subject.
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