AbleGamers Foundation receives award
Congratulations to the AbleGamers foundation. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg handed them an Award for their work with games and accessibility.
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GDC Europe and accessibility?
The Game Developers Conference Europe is the pan-European developer event bringing together developers and business professionals across the continent and worldwide. But is there room for the subject of accessible games?
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Kinect may support sign language
The patent for Microsoft's motion-sensing camera Kinect was released to the public last week, and it seems that the device could recognise sign language.
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New Audio Augmented Reality engine for Android phones
With this Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) engine, you can make sound turn around you through the normal headphone. Or you can walk around and hear if objects or sounds are in front of you or behind etc. Hear things and information that is not there in real life. Hear objects and monsters in the street that nowbody sees. Audio Augmented Reality....
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Annual Games Accessibility Day
On tuesday May 25, we can all celebrate the annual games accessibility day. We do question if there is much to celebrate for, but do you know any other good reason to celebrate on the 25th of May?
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3d games, how accessible is that?
Darkworks will this year produce 3d games on consoles and regular 2d displays. They do this by post-processing the existing 3d data into 3d images. Special glasses then render the 3D data with true colors and sharp images. Unlike the red-and-blue anaglyph of the past. The images can also still be seen in 2D without glasses. Games can be enjoyed by everyone in the room with or without glasses seamlessly. How great is that?
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Free downloadable rythm game for the blind (and all)
Dutch Tobias Bosma made a free downloadable rythm game ala Dance Dance Revolution that you can play with your keyboard or with a "dancepad". The game itself will explain you how to play it.
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Playmancer EU project deliverables available
The EU-funded PlayMancer project is using existing 3D video gaming engines to develop innovative ways of interaction between the player and the game world. The project is focusing on supporting the development of universally accessible games so that players of all abilities can use the games, especially for physical rehabilitation.
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Top 25 list of websites for impaired gamers
Oooooh, we did not make it into any of the Top 25 List of websites for impaired gamers. This is due to a violent malware attack we suffered. All problems seem to be solved now but naturally we are inconsolable. We put a dedicated editor on the forum since October to help ban all the spam messages and help revive discussions. We congratulate all the sites that made it into the Top 25 and are happy to be named on all the Sites to Watch lists. Please visit 7-128.com for a full overview and then come back to join us in discussions.
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Game Accessibility Website is the number 4 website in the world
So...ok, we are not first. We pledged a few tears, but remember, there are more than 16.000.000.000 other websites and forums and how many of them can say that they are the number 4 in the world for gamers who are blind, or the number 7 for gamers who are motion impaired.
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Best wishes for 2009
We hope you all have an extremely accessible and enjoyable game year.
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Nominate your Top 10 Accessible Games now
This is your chance to vote for your definitive Top 10 accessible games. To keep things simple and to avoid any confusion there are only two categories to choose from - free or commercial. All accessible PC games, including online games and interactive fiction can be included.
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Ubisoft add subtitles in all games produced in-house
The news is spreading fast. According to game websites, Ubisoft will add subtitles to all their games produced in-house. They announce that this includes modifying existing games and game engines.
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Working against spam
Lately, we have been visited by many people who think this forum is about selling shoes. Maybe they should invest in nice interactive and accessible shoe games. We installed an extra filter, updated the forum and I check for it every evening. For people receiving RSS feeds from the forum it is a nuisance. Sorry for that, but regrettably the spammers are very inventive. Maybe we should do a consumer action like not buying shoes anymore from now on? Or ask a shoe company to sponsor us all.
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Retro Remakes: A Game For Helen
The Retro Remakes 2008 Competition has begun! The competition runs from the 1st of September 2008 until the 6th of December. Much more here:
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