Special Effect from Paul Loman & Barbara Myers on Vimeo.
Labels: Campaigning, eye trackers, Special Effect, video
Ralph Baer Interviewed at AbleGamers
Published by OneSwitch.org.uk Monday, July 06, 2009 9:41 PM.
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Ralph Baer is one of the key driving exponents behind the birth of video gaming. He developed the first ever commercially available home games console, the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. AbleGamers interview the man and talk about gaming past, present and future. He comes across as a really affable bloke with a still fertile fervent mind.After reading this and if finding this as your cup of tea then I recommend reading Vintage Computing's interview of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell for a little balance. Worth noting too William Higinbotham's 1952 "Tennis For Two".
Labels: history, interviews
Just wanted to say thank you very much to everyone who has sponsored me so far for the British 10K run. I'm trying to raise £400 for one of my favourite charities, Special Effect, and their Game for Helen project. I'm 40 quid shy of the total so if you're feeling flush, please sponsor me here.Training fell to bits for a couple of months after a nasty virus followed by a chest infection and blah blah blah. However, I've restarted in earnest. Ran through my local fields the other night up to the church cemetry (beautifully illuminated) then back again racing against the failing light. Bit of a mistake I realised when I couldn't tell weeds from ruts from horse manure. Knees all okay though which is amazing.
Update: Managed a 9km run last night - the best I've done for 20 years. Starting to believe that I will make it.
Labels: Special Effect
Game Set Watch published a piece recently by Leigh Alexandra entitled 'Analysis: Can Nintendo Take 'Accessibility' Too Far?'. It questions if accessibility features spoil gaming. A depressing stand point and one that I feel misinterprets what greater accessibility can really mean.Info with thanks to: Scott McKay
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RNT Blog have recently posted links to two interesting accessible music projects. The French Bao Pao project and the S.W.I.T.C.H. USA project from Dr. Laz.Would love to see the Bao Pao system of playing applied to the realistic sounds of The Skoog. The next step I guess.
Labels: one-switch music
I have a single ASCII Grip V2 one hand controller newly in stock. This coveted rare controller works as standard on Playstation and Playstation 2 and on many other games consoles via joypad adapters. These include the Xbox 360, Gamecube, Dreamcast and as far as I can work out, the Playstation 3. Labels: Accessible Gaming Shop, one-handed, PS2
AbilityNet GATE: Accessible Games
Published by OneSwitch.org.uk Friday, June 26, 2009 7:15 AM.
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Click on Torii Gate above to take a tenuous link over to AbilityNet's GATE guide to Accessible Games. It's a very splendid start-up resource for those wishing to learn more about accessible gaming. It has some really good videos too including one of the original Star Trigon running on a switch adapted JAMMA rig. Labels: articles
