[games_access] Happy New Year + A.T.E. Arcade

[AudioGames.net]

Btw... received a post about this article on the BlindGamers list:

*quote*
See Me, Hear Me: A Video Game for the Blind
 Students have released a video game that makes it possible for visually 
impaired people to get in on the action. Match the clapping beats, and 
clubgoers dance.
By ABBY ELLIN
Published: December 26, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/education/edlife/ideas-blindvideo-t.html

A version of this article appeared in print on January 4, 2009, on page ED20 
of the New York edition.
*quote end*

Greets,

Richard




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AudioGames.net" <richard at audiogames.net>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [games_access] Happy New Year + A.T.E. Arcade


> Hi Guys!
>
> Happy New Year!!! All the best!
>
> One of my resolutions includes getting active again in this community. 
> 2008 was yet another year with several changes and developments for me 
> personally and because of these I was not able to be very active in the 
> field of game accessibility. However, with my (new) research position at 
> the Utrecht School of the Arts, I wish to put much of my focus back on 
> game accessibility research and design again. And participate in the chats 
> and conversations of this SIG again :)
> I'm currently busy with writing proposals and aplpying for grants for 
> (national) game accessibility-related research projects. If anyone is 
> interested in setting up GA-related (EU or other international) projects 
> and needs a partner, let me know through this list ;)
> One thing that I would like to put on the 2009 SIG agenda is discussing a 
> possible GA-related research trajectory/line. I got the feeling that one 
> of the reasons the body of knowledge in this field is developing 'slowly' 
> is because of there are many research initiatives but not that many 
> consecutive research projects with a clear direction out there. I've only 
> just started with looking at the research that has been done from this 
> point of view so I may be wrong - that's why I would like to put it into 
> the group ;)
>
> Greets,
>
> Richard
>
> ps: Michelle: all the best tomorrow!!!
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "d. michelle hinn" <hinn at uiuc.edu>
> To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 2:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [games_access] Happy New Year + A.T.E. Arcade
>
>
>> Happy New Year to all!
>>
>> I have surgery Monday but I'm looking forward to spending some recovery 
>> time checking out the new projects -- an accessible SL sounds like a 
>> reason to download SL again! :)
>>
>> PS -- In mid-January online SIG meetings will start up again. Let's make 
>> 2009 the year we really hit the scene with Accessibility and see some big 
>> changes!
>>
>> Hope everyone is well!
>> Michelle
>>
>>>Ditto Happy New Year everyone on the list. Hope you all have a great one.
>>>
>>>Text Second Life sounds like a really ambitious project, Eelke. Great 
>>>stuff. It would be great to hear some feedback from users at some point.
>>>
>>>People may be interested in a little on the past of accessible gaming 
>>>here:
>>>
>>>http://switchgaming.blogspot.com/2009/01/ate-arcade-rca-studio-ii.html
>>>
>>>I'm hoping to guide people step by step into using emulation to make 
>>>previously inaccessible games more accessible. Early days (I'm at 1977 at 
>>>the minute)!
>>>
>>>All the best...
>>>
>>>Barrie
>>>www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Eelke Folmer" 
>>><eelke.folmer at gmail.com>
>>>To: <games_access at igda.org>
>>>Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:59 AM
>>>Subject: [games_access] Happy new year + TextSL Beta
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I wish everybody a happy new year.
>>>>
>>>>We recently released a Beta version of TextSL which is a text client
>>>>for Second Life which can be accessed with the Jaws screen reader and
>>>>which can be downloaded on:
>>>>http://www.textsl.org
>>>>
>>>>Cheers Eelke
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Eelke Folmer
>>>>Assistant Professor
>>>>Department of Computer Science and Engineering
>>>>University of Nevada, Reno
>>>>http://www.eelke.com
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