Crowd Funded Accessible Game Campaign Needs Support
Published by OneSwitch.org.uk Sunday, 19 May 2013 10:38 pm.
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My Carnival hopes to become a video game for children with Cystic Fibrosis. If it reaches it's funding total, it will be released free of charge on PC. It's a laudable project, but it needs support or it won't happen this way. 12 days to go at the time of writing...
Via: AccessAble Games Javier Mairena on the IGDA GASIG mailing list.
Labels: PC
This one-switch game by Jack le Hamster sees you in "the story of a paralyzed man who can only used his right hand." You fly his arm-chair from left to right, seeking to put some wrongs right in the world. Land in the right spot to give a person a lift then take them where they can do the most good.
Your control is the Space Bar to fly up and right-wards. Release to sink down and if over a level surface, land and stop. This does require a very high level of skill, but you can't die, and there's no time limit.
I am also impressed by the other two games also hosted at Dobuki.com being a manic one-switch chase game called OMGAF Dragon! and the point and click puzzle game World of Turtle which I think should be a great fit for eye-gaze play.
Via: Lundum Dare.
Labels: Android, Apple Mac, iOS, Linux, one-switch games, PC
The dusty old set-up above was a once loved Ken Yankelevitz adapted Atari VCS 2600 games console. Probably dating from 1982 this set-up features push button handsets using off the shelf arcade parts.
This sorry sight replicates the fate of a lot of old assistive gaming technology. If it won't connect to the next generation (in this case the Nintendo Entertainment System) then a completely new set of custom controls often need to be built. Expensive and rendering the old set-up redundant for many people after the latest in gaming.
Whilst many are looking forward to the new Xbox being revealed on Tuesday, I'm left thinking after the PS3 and Wii-U launch, can console game controllers get any more complex and disabling? Fingers crossed Microsoft will have given accessibility more thought this time around.
Labels: history
Radio On (1979) by BFIfilms (18 certificate). One of my favourite films in full thanks to the BFI and Dailymotion. Love Always Crashing in the Same Car by Bowie and Kraftwerk are always wonderful.
Labels: music video
Huge thanks to Eleanor and John Bannick of 7-128.com for re-pointing me to Camera Mouse. I was aware of this back in 2007, tried it, and I think duly forgot about it as it didn't work too brilliantly for me.
Well, I'm guessing some significant updates (and me having a better computer) have turned this into an absolutely brilliant utility. So simple to use from the go and effective. I'm very curious to see how well it works on top of the likes of Alt-Controller. Free as well.
Added to the Accessible Gaming Shop: Head, Mouth and Eye Control section.
Labels: head trackers, PC
The Sensory Story Project - Kickstarter
Published by OneSwitch.org.uk Monday, 13 May 2013 8:41 pm.
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Joanna Grace is the author of a range of accessible sensory stories, some of which have been published by Oxfam and Amnesty International. Joanna has created a Kickstarter project that hopes to create a carefully crafted range of affordable sensory stories to sell on-line.
The Kickstarter Sensory Stories project, if funded, aims to complete within seven months. Backers get all kinds of interesting rewards. This is a great project, well worth supporting.
Reminds me a little of this passage from Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums that I'm half-way through at the minute: "A real haiku's gotta be as simple as porridge and yet make you see the real thing, like the greatest haiku of them all probably is the one that goes 'The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.' By Shiki. You see the wet footprints like a vision in your mind and yet in those few words you also see all the rain that's been falling that day and almost smell the wet pine needles."
Labels: one-switch stories, Sensory
A is for Autism and Drew Taylor's Story are two short films that explain a little of what living with Autism is like. Brilliant.
Via: Thurrock POINT.
Nod by Rose Abernathy is a one-switch mini-dating sim. Simply nod at the right time to win a date. Such a simple but fun idea, and an amusing two-minute distraction. Created for the Lundum Dare "Minimalism" competition.
Via: IndieGames.com
Labels: on-line, one-switch games
Floating sleepily around the web, and happy to see New Port State of Mind reinstated, I found The Wizard of Meh by Pogo. It rather tickles me.
Labels: music video
