[games_access] Game Accessibility Suite, and first prototype...

[d. michelle hinn]

Hey Mike,

If you feel like there's an example that is ready to go and show at 
GDC next month, we'd be more than glad to show it at our 
accessibility arcade and/or pass out some promo materials (doesn't 
have to be fancy) about the project to see if we can get others 
involved. There are a lot of students aspiring to game dev careers 
and working on projects like this might resonate well with them and 
we might get some of them to help out. Just let me know! Also, if you 
want to include info about it on the SIG DVD that we'll be passing 
out, that's cool too! :)

Michelle

>Greetings,
>     Just wanted to post a note if any of ya'll are interested... I've
>started an open source project on SourceForge.net to create a suite of
>utilities to make modern Win32 games more accessible.  Currently
>trying to figure out a good way to do external captioning with Reid,
>and I have a few other utility projects going at the moment.
>
>I've finished my first prototype utility using the common libraries
>I'm building up.  It is called GASThrottle, and should allow you to
>slow down many modern games on Windows to 10%-90% speed.  I've tested
>it with Doom 3 and Far Cry with great success, and others with mixed
>results - e.g. it crashes BioShock ;( .  When I looked, I didn't find
>much out there that did this for modern games that worked, although I
>found a few that didn't and some that work *great* for old DOS games.
>
>If there is already a free utility out there that does this well,
>please tell me :)
>Right now it's just a command line app, but if it looks useful to
>people I'll eventually make it all nice and pretty.
>
>Anyway, if anyone has ideas/suggestions on this or other utilities to
>add to the suite, please email me or post in the project's
>forums/tracker.
>
>Download page: 
>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=212119&package_id=258851
>Code Docs: http://gameaccess.sourceforge.net
>Project URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gameaccess
>Source Repository:
>https://gameaccess.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gameaccess/trunk/
>
>Cheers,
>Mike
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