[games_access] games_access Digest, Vol 126, Issue 2

[Mathias Nordvall]

Hi everyone!

Thanks for the bump Ian and Thomas. I made the Sightlence game and it's not
released publicly yet but will be later this year after we've made some
additional changes to it. But if anyone is interested in playing it before
then, please feel free to get in touch with me at mathias.nordvall at gmail.comor
mathias.nordvall at liu.se

Cheers!
Mathias Nordvall

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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 20:54:42 +0200
> From: Thomas Westin <thomas at westin.nu>
> Subject: Re: [games_access] Deaf-Blind gaming possibilities
> To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List <games_access at igda.org>
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> Hi Ian,
>
> thanks for sharing, I think especially Sightlence is great project
>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
> 10Apr 2014 kl. 09:15 skrev Ian Hamilton <i_h at hotmail.com>:
>
> > Here are two more nice examples of haptic / tactile game interfaces,
> firstly pong with X and Y coordinates translated into levels of vibration
> in two Xbox 360 pads:
> >
> >
> > http://www.fdg2013.org/program/festival/sightlence.pdf
> >
> >
> > Secondly Tetris, with the pieces shown by the raised pins on a
> refreshable Braille display:
> >
> > http://www.ndadamson.com/index.php?slab=dotris
> >
> >
> > Also on the topic of Braille, this isn't related to digital gaming but
> might be of interest anyway. Traditionally blind-accessible card/tabletop
> games are highly expensive limited runs of a rare few games, such as this:
> >
> >
> http://www.maxiaids.com/products/526/Braille-and-Low-Vision-Monopoly.html
> >
> >
> > Sighted avid collectors (magic the gathering etc) often put their cards
> in transparent plastic sleeves, to protect them from wear and tear, eg
> >
> >
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B002K8I50W?pc_redir=1396965541&robot_redir=1
> >
> >
> > So someone has seen another possible use for the sleeves, they've had
> the genius idea of buying a braille embosser and embossing the card text as
> braille onto the sleeves, meaning that existing games can be adapted to
> order for a tiny cost, instead of the publishers having to making an
> expensive alternative version of the game, which is extremely rare.
> >
> >
> > They're also adding stickers with QR codes on to the sleeves for more
> detailed information, and for other players they're also providing the
> option of sleeve stickers to essentially provide a colourblind mode,
>  explaining any information that is conveyed by color alone.
> >
> >
> > The possibility of adding a simple option to convey the information in
> an alternative way is pretty much taken for granted in digital, but it's
> great to see something like that in the physical world, where due to cost
> it normally has to be one size fits all.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64ouncegames/board-games-now-blind-accessible/
> >
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Reply message -----
> > From: "Barrie Ellis" <barrie.ellis at oneswitch.org.uk>
> > To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
> > Subject: [games_access] Deaf-Blind gaming possibilities
> > Date: Thu, Apr 10, 2014 06:28
> >
> > Guessing most of you may have seen this clip:
> http://switchgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/tangible-media-deaf-blind-gaming.htm
> >
> > Looks like it could be a really interesting way in for deaf-blind-gamers
> for games and beyond.
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