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

[Barrie Ellis]

Good to have you back, Richard! I think getting the group re-focussed and 
galvanised is an important aim for 2009. Lots of excellent stuff to build 
upon.

Barrie

----- 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 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: [games_access] Happy New Year + A.T.E. Arcade


> 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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