[games_access] Game control question...

[d. michelle hinn]

Hey Mke,

Well the main problem with buying a controller for companies is that 
the controller is a couple hundred dollars, there's no way (although 
I'm trying to find a way) for it to be shared with others due to 
hygienic reasons (especially with things like the MRSA virus going 
around...)...and we don't have the money to do that! The guy that 
makes them does this by hand so he wouldn't be in a position to give 
away his product either.

But -- we bring this to every conference we go to and this year I'm 
going to walk it through the expo at GDC. :)

I don't use mine to demo windows games -- just 360 and PS2 games (I 
have those two versions).

And, yeah, you can pretty much hyperventilate playing a lot of games. 
Without games allowing full remapping of every control...you might 
find that you need to suck in air and blow it out all while hitting 
two switches...at the same time.

Michelle

>Just received my KYE Quadcontroller and have been going through the
>games I've got around....
>
>Suggestion - a good way to get a game company to develop games that
>are accessible to physically disabled gamers that use stuff like this
>might be to just buy their lead architect/programmer one of these
>things.  Developers love technical toys, Ken's controller is a
>wonderful piece of engineering that any good developer is going to
>hook up immediately and start playing with, and it's a real
>eye-opener!
>
>Single-switch control is so reduced that I'd expect it to be difficult
>beyond belief to control most games - but this thing has enough crazy
>buttons, levers, and blow holes that I *should* be able to play just
>about anything, but I can't because the games don't let me configure
>them well enough.  Granted, I'm playing all Windows games so game
>controllers are kinda second to keyboard/mouse for inputs, but....
>wow.
>
>Question - What software is popular with these for Windows control and
>gaming?  Anything that doesn't suck?
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
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