[games_access] Game control question...

[Barrie Ellis]

Re. JoyToKey - I agree - it's not ideal for a lot of gamers such as yourself
who could be completely independent if only the interfaces were right. I'd
love it if someone could take JoyToKey and build upon it's menu
accessibility. It has some great features of it's own like auto-fire - but
if it could be integrated with easier configuration menus and the likes of
4Noah and even speed control software - that would be very sweet indeed. If
it wasn't so reliant upon English - this would be a boon too.

I've not tried this with anything other that the standard on-screen keyboard
(which won't work properly for me) - but if you run JoyToKey or MAME in a
window - might you be able to use a decent on-screen keyboard to enter the
keys you need? You may need to assign one of your buttons to a SHIFT-type
function....

Just a thought...

Barrie
www.OneSwitch.org.uk




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Ellison" <devellison at gmail.com>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [games_access] Game control question...


> On Jan 18, 2008 2:22 AM, Barrie Ellis <barrie.ellis at oneswitch.org.uk>
> wrote:
>> It is a good thought - but in the Quadcontroller instance - would
>> obviously
>> take some cash to do.
>
> It's going to take cash for any major awareness program to work.  I'd
> be more concerned about placing too many orders for Ken to serve his
> real clients - are there other controllers out there that might
> provide a similar experience and gadget factor?  I'm serious though -
> I'll toss in some cash if anyone wants to start a pool to send them to
> the big game companies.
>
>> Not sure I agree on your single-switch thought, especially looking at
>> some
>> of Eelke Folmer's students work on the likes of Second Life - although
>> granted - some games need a lot more adjustment that others.
>
> Their work is terrific, but for a single switch only certain types of
> games will be adaptable beyond a certain point without major changes
> to the gamer's role in the game.  Many adaptations will also be pretty
> custom for the specific game and relatively difficult to implement.
> I'm not discounting the need, possibility, or the amazing work people
> are doing in the field - I'm just saying that without such adaptations
> on the development side I *expect* it to be difficult to play.
>
>> PC gaming - anything emulated would work on this - so MAME and so on
>> should
>> be great - especially as you can redefine the keys - although set-up and
>> redefining keys may be quite tricky at the out-set.
>
> And I'm having a hell of a time doing the special moves on Street
> Fighter 2 Alpha, although that probably has a lot to do with me being
> a noob :)  I did do a lot of emulated playing on GameTap with the
> controller.  Problem though - I couldn't exit games without the
> keyboard to play a different one, and default mappings were illogical
> for many of them (functional, kinda, but far from ideal).
>
>> Software like JoyToKey
>> (http://www.oneswitch.org.uk/2/I/JoyToKey/JoyToKey.htm) allows you to set
>> the Quadcontroller as a mouse (for any web based games for instance) -
>> and
>> also any key on the keyboard to any control.
>
> Tested it earlier and a handful of others.  That one's one of the
> better ones, but it didn't seem targeted to this audience at all.  For
> starters, I couldn't configure it with a joystick.
>
>
>>
>> Barrie
>> www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
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