[games_access] GTA IV - PS3 Control Scheme - Accessibility Nightmare

[d. michelle hinn]

Hi all -- this is definitely a "next on the agenda" thing for the 
group -- as in, we're going to start doing this soon. We have funding 
(this is the "now step" along with the games for health conference in 
a week) that we'll be able to use soon. One thing I'd like to propose 
are game reviews in exchange for a small honorarium (Many magazines 
do this). I don't know how much this will be yet -- gotta figure out 
the budget!

So we'd figure out as a group what elements must be in those reviews, 
quality, etc. Then we, as the SIG (and I hope partnering with 
ablegamers as a place to cross post these position statements (we'd 
want to put them on the SIG blog too or at least a "teaser" that 
would link to the full review in addition to sending them to the 
companies), would put a "games to review" list (based on popular 
games we already know that there are problems with and games 
suggested by the community via ablegamers or oneswitch or anywhere 
else. Then the reviews can be up for grabs. There might be games that 
need more than one review depending on how bad the game is for 
accessibility. Then we'll figure out a split honorarium type of thing 
as needed.

This is what I would like us to start working on as the summer 
approaches, more and more get out of school for the year, etc. We 
also seem to have a traditional summer project -- I think this is a 
pretty good one!!

Ah...before I forget...meetings on MSN will resume shortly. Stay 
tuned for more information! :)

Michelle

>Barrie,
>
>I could not agree more.  What can we do?  Can we start sending 
>position statements to game developers with specific suggestions?
>
>Just a thought,
>
>Jason
>
>
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>[mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Barrie Ellis
>Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 2:00 AM
>To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
>Subject: [games_access] GTA IV - PS3 Control Scheme - Accessibility Nightmare
>
>Grand Theft Auto - control scheme... What a nightmare...
>
><http://www.gamecyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/gtamap6.jpg>http://www.gamecyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/gtamap6.jpg
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>A "context button" and on-screen menu could have got rid of 80% of 
>those controls for gamers needing it...
>
>Still "R2" looks like a fun button to interface to for one-switch 
>gamers playing in a team...
>
>Barrie
><http://www.OneSwitch.org.uk>www.OneSwitch.org.uk
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