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

Tim Holt tim.m.holt at gmail.com
Wed May 4 10:54:19 EDT 2011


Barrie - thanks for that list!

Tim

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Barrie Ellis <oneswitch at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Good calls, Tara.
>
> Also - "Squid Yes: Not So Octopus" and Fishie Fishie 50 are one-switch
> playable on Xbox Live, and there's more. Fishing Girl I think too... Love
> the theme of Gaya. Nice one.
>
>
>
>  *From:* Tara Voelker (Tefertiller) <ttefertiller at igda-gasig.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 28, 2011 6:40 PM
> *To:* IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List <games_access at igda.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [games_access] Looking for One Switch Games thoughts...
>
> Games for Health in Boston? Eleanor and myself will be there as well!
>
> A 1 switch game I recommend is Shoot 1 Up.  It isnt one switch by default,
> but you can turn that option on in the menu. It's pretty fun. You can
> download if for a dollar from the indie channel on XBox Live. It's pretty
> fun.Here is a video showing all of the accessibility features:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqAeD6TBZt8
>
> I also recommend checking out a game that was part of the Global Game
> Jam.... It was designed to be one switch.You can read about it, see a video
> and download it here:
>
>
> http://igda-gasig.org/success-cases-and-examples/global-game-jam/central-orlando-chapter-2011/
>
> --
> Tara (Tefertiller) Voelker - Chairperson
> IGDA Game Accessibility SIG
>
> igda-gasig.org
> http://gameaccesssig.forumotion.com/
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Tim Holt <tim.m.holt at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
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