[games_access] Global Gam Jam 2013
Lynsey Graham
lgraham at blitzgamesstudios.com
Fri Feb 22 07:38:49 EST 2013
It's very encouraging, I just wish more big studios and publishers would pay more attention! It's been fantastic when I've done talks on accessibility in games development at universities, because many of the students freely admit that they've never considered the issue, but having discussed it can't believe that there aren't more industry-wide standards concerning button remapping, subtitles, etc.
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From: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Ian Hamilton
Sent: 22 February 2013 12:24
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Subject: Re: [games_access] Global Gam Jam 2013
I'd really recommend checking out the links at the very bottom, the 'other creative and interesting ideas'.
They include a neurosky mind control game, someone who used the scripting language in a piece of music production software to turn it into an audio puzzle game, and a speech recognition based audio adventure controlled by having conversations with a real life robot, all great stuff and again pretty astounding for 48 hours' work.
Ian
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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:30:49 -0000
From: "Barrie Ellis" <oneswitch at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [games_access] Global Gam Jam 2013
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Brilliant! I'll get something up on the GASIG Blog very soon, to record this. Really liked "A Wise Move", and so impressed with the other entrants. Great collaborative work!
Barrie
From: Michelle Hinn
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:36 AM
To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [games_access] Global Gam Jam 2013
Thank you so much Ian!! It's great to get the post mortem from GGJ and I'm excited by the discussion and plans to move the accessibility diversifier to be used throughout all of GGJ next year that are already underway! An update on that and steps for everyone interested to get involved with is coming shortly!
Mark and Ian are right -- if people can do this in a 48 hour challenge, what is everyone else waiting for? If we can all work toward making the accessibility diversifier happen throughout the entire GGJ 2014, I think that will be fantastic -- the GGJ seem to be very excited our doing this. To that end we will need more judges, local GGJ hosts, and more in the coming year. My heart is gladdened to see how many groups are involved with this!
Congrats to everyone who has participated in this so far! What I've heard about it via stories and experiences gained, how can this not be something we all continue to be involved with? I'm looking forward to working with you all in the coming year and gathering together more people to help out!
Way to go everyone!!
PS -- Did you participate but your name was not on Ian's summary below? Let me know and we'll make sure we include your name and group affiliation in a recap we'll be submitting to both GGJ and IGDA in the next coming days!
Michelle
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Ian Hamilton <i_h at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
> Quick bit of background -
>
>
> Global Game Jam is an annual game hack weekend, where teams around the
> world are given a common theme to work to (this year's was 'heart
> beat'), and divide into teams to produce an entire end to end
> functioning game by the end of the 48 hours.
>
>
>
> Accessibility challenge
>
>
> A couple of years back Tara (while GASIG chair) kicked of an
> accessibility challenge at the Orlando venue, with teams volunteering
> to take on an extra challenge outside of the usual GGJ theme,
> competing to produce the most accessible game. In 2012 we expanded it
> further to cover several venues around the UK. In 2013 the challenge
> grew again to cover venues in the UK, Australia and Canada.
>
>
> For the 2013 event entries were initially judged at an individual
> venue level on some fixed accessibility criteria, and then went to a
> panel of judges (Mark Barlet of AbleGamers, Lynsey Graham of Blitz
> Games Studios, Barrie Ellis of OneSwitch, and myself) for the final
> vote on the international winner.
>
>
> Global winner
>
>
> The winner was a game called 'A Wise Choice', from the London venue.
> There were many games produced with limited vision in mind, and many
> produced with simple controls in mind, but A Wise Choice attempted
> both and many more, with features ranging from easy to read text to
> full self-voicing, and even a scanning switch interface for profound motor impairment.
>
>
> The primary focus was blind gamers, catered for through pre-recorded
> full self-voicing. Creating a fully self-voiced game is no mean feat
> even with a decent timescale and budget, and it was very clear that
> not only had some good thought gone into the interaction, but also
> that a real effort had been made to ensure that the game was just as
> enjoyable regardless whether the player could see or not.
>
>
> In addition to profound visual and motor impairment other less
> profound impairments were also well catered for, from low reading age
> to dyslexia, partial deafness to hyperopia.
>
>
> Some quotes from the judges:
>
>
> "A wonderfully accessible mix of Oliver Postgate style story telling
> and Gong hippy-dom"
> "Impressive given the combination of the timescale, the disability
> they catered for and the scope of the game."
> "Hugely impressive access. Very well thought out"
>
>
> You can download and play the game here:
>
>
> http://165.225.150.231/ggj13/a%20wise%20choice-Default-1.0.0.7.zip
>
>
> More information on the game available here:
>
>
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/wise-choice
>
>
>
> Other entries
>
>
> A few highlights from some of the other regional winners and commended
> entries:
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUnbrIeA610&feature=youtu.be
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/wrongbot
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/fear-0
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/samurai-xx
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/shot-dark
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/pump
>
>
>
>
> Accessibility diversifier
>
>
> There was also a second element, added by the GGJ organisers - an
> official accessibility diversifier. Diversifiers are secondary themes
> that are not competitive, and are open to every single person from
> every venue. This meant that all jammers around the world gained some
> awareness of accessibility. Many teams deciding to tackle it
> themselves, with with around
> 200 developers deciding to take up the challenge, producing over 80
> games with accessibility in mind.
>
>
> Many of these were games that widened their audience by thinking about
> things like control complexity, text formatting, contrast,
> colour-blind friendly schemes and so on, and others aimed to tackle
> more tricky accessibility issues, opening up play to gamers with profound impairments.
>
>
> The most popularly tackled of these by far were blind-friendly / audio
> only
> games:
>
>
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/panic
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/darkest-maze
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/heartbeast
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/enigma
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/blind-samurai-0
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/i-am-fear
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/black
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/living-maze
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/deprivision
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/whack-telltale-heart
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/terror-ciegas
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/dark-pulse-0
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/voix
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/blind-samurai
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/heart-darkness-1
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/blindmorning-0
>
>
> Single button games were also quite popular:
>
>
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/escape-velocity
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/cardiac-arrest-1
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/egg-beat-old-delete-me
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/luck-broken-heart
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/beatingmyheart
>
>
> And there were some pretty interesting and creative one-off ideas too:
>
>
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/puzzle-beatbeat
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/tandem-base-jump
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/sync
> http://globalgamejam.org/2013/pluse
> http://benhumphreys.co.uk/naovatar/
>
>
> To reach these kinds of audiences in the space of 48 hours is
> obviously quite a feat, yet that's exactly what both the challenge and
> diversifier games often achieved.. a greater level of accessibility
> than is found in commercial games.
>
>
> A quote from Mark Barlet, one that I wholeheartedly agree with -
>
>
> "I thought that all of the entries show that making games with
> accessibility in mind can be done! I was impressed to see what could be done in 48 hours.
> What this really proves is that there is no excuse for adding basic
> accessibility to games, regardless of the budget."
>
>
>
> Ian
>
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From: Thomas Westin <thomas at pininteractive.com>
Subject: Re: [games_access] Global Gam Jam 2013
To: Barrie Ellis <oneswitch at gmail.com>, IGDA Games Accessibility SIG
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excellent Ian, I showed to my students too
Best regards,
Thomas
On 22Feb 2013, at 11:30 AM, Barrie Ellis <oneswitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brilliant! I'll get something up on the GASIG Blog very soon, to record this. Really liked "A Wise Move", and so impressed with the other entrants. Great collaborative work!
>
> Barrie
>
> From: Michelle Hinn
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:36 AM
> To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [games_access] Global Gam Jam 2013
>
> Thank you so much Ian!! It's great to get the post mortem from GGJ and
> I'm excited by the discussion and plans to move the accessibility
> diversifier to be used throughout all of GGJ next year that are
> already underway! An update on that and steps for everyone interested
> to get involved with is coming shortly!
>
> Mark and Ian are right -- if people can do this in a 48 hour
> challenge, what is everyone else waiting for? If we can all work
> toward making the accessibility diversifier happen throughout the
> entire GGJ 2014, I think that will be fantastic -- the GGJ seem to be
> very excited our doing this. To that end we will need more judges,
> local GGJ hosts, and more in the coming year. My heart is gladdened to
> see how many groups are involved with this!
>
> Congrats to everyone who has participated in this so far! What I've
> heard about it via stories and experiences gained, how can this not be
> something we all continue to be involved with? I'm looking forward to
> working with you all in the coming year and gathering together more
> people to help out!
>
> Way to go everyone!!
>
> PS -- Did you participate but your name was not on Ian's summary
> below? Let me know and we'll make sure we include your name and group
> affiliation in a recap we'll be submitting to both GGJ and IGDA in the
> next coming days!
>
> Michelle
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Ian Hamilton <i_h at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> >
> > Quick bit of background -
> >
> >
> > Global Game Jam is an annual game hack weekend, where teams around
> > the world are given a common theme to work to (this year's was
> > 'heart beat'), and divide into teams to produce an entire end to end
> > functioning game by the end of the 48 hours.
> >
> >
> >
> > Accessibility challenge
> >
> >
> > A couple of years back Tara (while GASIG chair) kicked of an
> > accessibility challenge at the Orlando venue, with teams
> > volunteering to take on an extra challenge outside of the usual GGJ
> > theme, competing to produce the most accessible game. In 2012 we
> > expanded it further to cover several venues around the UK. In 2013
> > the challenge grew again to cover venues in the UK, Australia and Canada.
> >
> >
> > For the 2013 event entries were initially judged at an individual
> > venue level on some fixed accessibility criteria, and then went to a
> > panel of judges (Mark Barlet of AbleGamers, Lynsey Graham of Blitz
> > Games Studios, Barrie Ellis of OneSwitch, and myself) for the final
> > vote on the international winner.
> >
> >
> > Global winner
> >
> >
> > The winner was a game called 'A Wise Choice', from the London venue.
> > There were many games produced with limited vision in mind, and many
> > produced with simple controls in mind, but A Wise Choice attempted
> > both and many more, with features ranging from easy to read text to
> > full self-voicing, and even a scanning switch interface for profound motor impairment.
> >
> >
> > The primary focus was blind gamers, catered for through pre-recorded
> > full self-voicing. Creating a fully self-voiced game is no mean feat
> > even with a decent timescale and budget, and it was very clear that
> > not only had some good thought gone into the interaction, but also
> > that a real effort had been made to ensure that the game was just as
> > enjoyable regardless whether the player could see or not.
> >
> >
> > In addition to profound visual and motor impairment other less
> > profound impairments were also well catered for, from low reading
> > age to dyslexia, partial deafness to hyperopia.
> >
> >
> > Some quotes from the judges:
> >
> >
> > "A wonderfully accessible mix of Oliver Postgate style story telling
> > and Gong hippy-dom"
> > "Impressive given the combination of the timescale, the disability
> > they catered for and the scope of the game."
> > "Hugely impressive access. Very well thought out"
> >
> >
> > You can download and play the game here:
> >
> >
> > http://165.225.150.231/ggj13/a%20wise%20choice-Default-1.0.0.7.zip
> >
> >
> > More information on the game available here:
> >
> >
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/wise-choice
> >
> >
> >
> > Other entries
> >
> >
> > A few highlights from some of the other regional winners and
> > commended
> > entries:
> >
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUnbrIeA610&feature=youtu.be
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/wrongbot
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/fear-0
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/samurai-xx
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/shot-dark
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/pump
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Accessibility diversifier
> >
> >
> > There was also a second element, added by the GGJ organisers - an
> > official accessibility diversifier. Diversifiers are secondary
> > themes that are not competitive, and are open to every single person
> > from every venue. This meant that all jammers around the world
> > gained some awareness of accessibility. Many teams deciding to
> > tackle it themselves, with with around
> > 200 developers deciding to take up the challenge, producing over 80
> > games with accessibility in mind.
> >
> >
> > Many of these were games that widened their audience by thinking
> > about things like control complexity, text formatting, contrast,
> > colour-blind friendly schemes and so on, and others aimed to tackle
> > more tricky accessibility issues, opening up play to gamers with profound impairments.
> >
> >
> > The most popularly tackled of these by far were blind-friendly /
> > audio only
> > games:
> >
> >
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/panic
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/darkest-maze
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/heartbeast
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/enigma
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/blind-samurai-0
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/i-am-fear
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/black
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/living-maze
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/deprivision
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/whack-telltale-heart
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/terror-ciegas
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/dark-pulse-0
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/voix
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/blind-samurai
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/heart-darkness-1
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/blindmorning-0
> >
> >
> > Single button games were also quite popular:
> >
> >
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/escape-velocity
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/cardiac-arrest-1
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/egg-beat-old-delete-me
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/luck-broken-heart
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/beatingmyheart
> >
> >
> > And there were some pretty interesting and creative one-off ideas too:
> >
> >
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/puzzle-beatbeat
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/tandem-base-jump
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/sync
> > http://globalgamejam.org/2013/pluse
> > http://benhumphreys.co.uk/naovatar/
> >
> >
> > To reach these kinds of audiences in the space of 48 hours is
> > obviously quite a feat, yet that's exactly what both the challenge
> > and diversifier games often achieved.. a greater level of
> > accessibility than is found in commercial games.
> >
> >
> > A quote from Mark Barlet, one that I wholeheartedly agree with -
> >
> >
> > "I thought that all of the entries show that making games with
> > accessibility in mind can be done! I was impressed to see what could be done in 48 hours.
> > What this really proves is that there is no excuse for adding basic
> > accessibility to games, regardless of the budget."
> >
> >
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > games_access mailing list
> > games_access at igda.org
> > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access
> > The main SIG website page is http://igda-gasig.org
> >
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