[games_access] Family Play

[Eelke Folmer]

HI Barry,

Torque FPS: The student who's working on it promised to send a demo to
me today.

Kudos go to nintendo ofcourse. Criticized from the start from
withstanding to compete in pushing as much pixels as possible with
microsoft and sony, now 7 months after launching the wii they have
clearly (re) opened (where did gaming really start: NES+mario) a
market for themselves where microsoft and sony still seem to battle it
out with copycat games & sequals trying to facilitate the ever
demanding high end 20 year old male gamer.

I am kind of curious how EA will deal with porting their games to the
technically underpowered but gameplay overpowered wii? Technically the
wii and xbox360/ps3 are really different.

cheers Eelke


On 7/5/07, Barrie Ellis <barrie.ellis at oneswitch.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Sounds just what we've been advocating for all these years. Good! Hate the
> phrase about bridging the gap between gamers and non-gamers. What
> meaningless nonsense!
>
> Very much looking forward to seeing a demo of your work by the way.
>
> Barrie
> www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eelke Folmer
> To: games_access at igda.org
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:37 PM
> Subject: [games_access] Family Play
>
>
> http://wii.ign.com/articles/801/801326p1.html
>
> EA games will offer a "simplified interaction" for their sports games
> Madden, FIFA & NBA.  AI is used to take over the more difficult parts of the
> interaction while the
> wii mote will be used to map the required interaction to gestures or
> movements which most players already know. This is exactly like we have done
> it for the FPS for the torque engine. (I will finally send out a demo
> tomorrow).
>
> This is pretty cool and might also make hardcore games more accessible for
> those with disabilities.
>
> Cheers Eelke
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Eelke Folmer                           Assistant Professor
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University of Nevada              Reno, Nevada 89557
Game interaction design        www.helpyouplay.com
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