[games_access] Good practices for accessibility in video games

[Richard (AudioGames.net)]

Hi Carme!

Hahaha - in a good or a bad way? ;-) That's so sweet of you!! Yes, I 
would have loved to come but unfortunately couldn't manage :-/

Busy with many different things. Here at  the HKU my focus is slowly 
turning towards play and Interactive Toy Design ("games are soo 
yesterday and toys are the new black"), mainly because as of next year 
we will have a course with the same name but also because I seriously do 
believe that interactive toys are a big part of What's Next. Therefore 
toy accessibility is also somewhere in my agenda ;-)
Other than that I we had the DIGRA Think Design Play conference here in 
Hilversum and I put a lot of time into the Cultures At Play Game Jam in 
Istanbul last year. Adaptive Music Systems research still continues, as 
does my work at the Applied Game Design research program 
(http://agd.hku.nl/) and the Creative Design for Playful Impact research 
program (have you already seen our program's Game for Pigs: 
http://www.playingwithpigs.nl/ ?).
And of course (my company) Creative Heroes 2 days a week :-)
So accessibility is pretty low on my to do list (let alone translation), 
although I am currently exploring the possibilities of a R&D project 
about games/toys with Sifteo cubes for children with (for instance) 
dyspraxia.

BUT...

... maybe interesting for you guys to know is that we are in the process 
of setting up some sort of 'Code Jam' with the main theme 
"Inclusion/Accessibility". The event is somewhat similar to a 'game jam' 
but than with a focus on software instead of games: multiple small teams 
of designers and developers developing a small pieces of software in 48 
hours that would somehow be related to accessibility/inclusion. Nothing 
is final yet but I'll let you know how things progress if you want? 
Maybe we can arrange for you to come over with some students and 
participate? For me (if I participate) this would be the ideal 
opportunity to finally sit down and prototype those Sound Balloons ;-)

And how are you? What's up in Barcelona?

Best regards!

Richard


On 10-4-2012 10:10, Carme Mangiron wrote:
> Thanks, Richard! :)
>
> How's things? Hope all's well!
>
> We had the second edition of the conference in March, and it wasn't 
> the same without you...
>
> A big hug from Barcelona!
>
> Carmen
>
> On 10/04/2012 10:06, Richard (AudioGames.net) wrote:
>> Excellent! Congratulations (also to Carmen & Pilar!)!!
>>
>>
>> On 10-4-2012 9:44, Javier Mairena wrote:
>>> An extensive 250-page collection of experiences and studies in Spain 
>>> on accessibility in video games in recent years.
>>> Great work done by CEAPAT (Spanishstate center for personal autonomy 
>>> and technical assistance).
>>>
>>> The document is only on spanish, sorry:
>>> http://www.ceapat.es/InterPresent1/groups/imserso/documents/binario/accesvideojuegos.pdf
>>>
>>> Here you have index document translated by Google:
>>> http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.videojuegosaccesibles.es/2012/04/buenas-practicas-de-accesibilidad-en.html&hl=en&langpair=es|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8 
>>> <http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.videojuegosaccesibles.es/2012/04/buenas-practicas-de-accesibilidad-en.html&hl=en&langpair=es%7Cen&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8>
>>>
>>>
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