[games_access] Looking for One Switch Games thoughts...

[Michelle Hinn]

Barrie's definitely your best source for additional one switch info. 

As for the Gamma 4 competition -- Barrie and I were both really frustrated with this, as we'd contacted them and the organizers didn't seem to want to "confuse" the contest with pointing out that this was a long time accessibility design concern. Barrie created a great guide to help contestants and we'd hoped that there might be at least a "special merit" award for the contestant that did the best job of creating the most accessible one switch game...but the organizers also didn't go for that. So that was a big opportunity lost, IMHO, for the Gamma contest organizers to create something greater than their original plan.

Disappointing, to say the least but I am glad that you got the chance to talk with some of the developers and help spread some knowledge! :)

Michelle

On Apr 28, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Tim Holt wrote:

> I'm giving a presentation on one switch games at Games 4 Health in May, and wanted to ping the list for thoughts, ideas, resources, etc. on this broad topic.   
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> For example http://www.oneswitch.org.uk/ is a fantastic resource and one I'm pretty familiar with.  Any other suggestions, including any "not made for one switch but playable as one switch" commercial games?  
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> The same goes for resources and ideas for one switch games created without accessibility in mind.  The Gamma 4 one button competition for GDC 2010 was a good example of this.  I talked with some of the developers at GDC, and was sort of surprised to find out some of them had no idea that one switch interactions were viewable from the accessibility point of view.  I was pleased that when I mentioned  accessibility and one switch design was a whole "culture" out there already, a few developers had those proverbial lightbulbs go off in their minds.
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> Tim
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