[games_access] UA-Games new release: Game Over!

[hinn at uiuc.edu]

Hi Dimitris! That's great -- I'll be downloading it later today. 

Folks, if you haven't had a chance to play this yet -- now's the time! It's a GREAT resource for demonstrating what we're saying when we say "your game is not accessible for gamers with disability x, y, and z."

Congrats on finalizing the game!

Best,
Michelle

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:45:44 +0300
>From: "Dimitris Grammenos" <gramenos at ics.forth.gr>  
>Subject: [games_access] UA-Games new release: Game Over!  
>To: "'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'" <games_access at igda.org>
>
>   Hello!
>
>    
>
>   We have just released "Game Over!", the world's
>   first universally inaccessible game!
>
>    
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>   Game Over! aims to provide game developers with a
>   first-hand (frustrating) experience of how it feels
>   interacting with a game that is not accessible due
>   to the fact that important accessibility design
>   rules were not considered or applied.
>
>    
>
>   The game was developed in the context of the
>   Universally Accessible Games research activity of
>   ICS-FORTH (ua-games.gr).
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>   You can find more information about the game at:
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>   http://ua-games.gr/game-over
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>   The MS-Windows, Linux and Mac OS X versions of the
>   game can be downloaded freely from:
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>   http://ua-games.gr/game-over/downloads.html
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>   If you try the game, please take the on-line survey
>   and share with us your opinion and thoughts about it
>   - it will not take more than 5 minutes.
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>   You will find the survey at:
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>   http://ua-games.gr/game-over/feedback.html
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>   Best regards,
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>    
>
>   Dimitris Grammenos
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>   e-mail:game-over at ua-games.gr
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>    
>
>   Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory & Centre for
>   Universal Access and Assistive Technologies
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>   Institute of Computer Science (ICS)
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>   Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
>   (FORTH)
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