Hello Ron, thank you very much for filling the survey! I'll be happy to give you the opportunity of testing future prototypes. Be aware that the project is in a preliminary phase, me and my team will start the creative and development process in January. We will be in touch with blind people here in Portugal and involve some of them who are interested in co-designing and testing the game through multiple sessions. I'll keep your contact, so I can have your help, too. Thanks again.
One more thing. I work in research. In research, we have the opportunity to explore with freedom. We have many ideas to test, but I expect that initial games will not be finished products. Our goal is to find effective ways to create games enjoyable by players with different abilities. If these ways are truly effective, we can encourage industry to actually be inclusive in the future. We plan to explore specialized haptic feedback in games, but it's not our main goal. It's undeveloped technology in current days and our work is not focused on that. Some days ago I went to a talk of a japanese researcher who has interesting work in tangible interfaces. His name is Hiroshi Ishii and he's exploring the idea of tangible pixels. You know, like a table with little pins that come out and according to some program it "sculpts" something in real-time. That's something with much potential to gaming. Nintendo Rumble is cool, too. Tangible interaction is promising but, as I said, it's not the main focus of our project, because it's not really there yet. We are also conscious that games which recquire special controllers or such would be very expensive and unavailable. I'll keep you informed. Thanks again! David G -------- Mensagem original -------- Assunto: Re: [blind-gamers] Games for everyone De: Ron Kolesar Para: [email protected] CC: Hello to you David, from Ron Kolesar. I am blind with R.P. and I just filled out your survey. Please write to me at: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> I’d love to be come one of your beta testers if you’re looking for beta testers to stress test out your games and to report back bugs in the game. I’ve beta tested with several company's and their products, and I soon will be a beta tester for the Spectrum cable company on their world box version 3 cable converter box with the new voice input remote controller. I am a huge gamer and simmer. I’m looking for a USB handheld two stick controller with hopefully force feedback written into the program. Why two sticks? This is a valid question to ask. I’m stress testing a couple hant to ear flight simulators. The reason for two sticks on a handheld device is this: The left hand or Port Side stick controls the roll and pitch features of a flight simulator and the right hand or starboard side stick controls the speed AKA the Velocity and the turning AKA banking features of a flight simulator. I’d like to find a handheld controller that not only would work with we flight simmers, but with as many hand to ear products as possible. I have one program that the company went belly up but I still have access to the program where not only physical force feedback would bring the game to life, but also having shock feedback at a safe level of course since the game also involves getting shocked by live electricity as well. To bad since Virtual Reality is all the rage for sighted people if we could get a virtual reality for the five senses to take us from the real world to the world of virtual reality which really would bring the hand to ear coordination games and simulators to life. I hope you think of me during your next project. A very Merry Christmas to all. Ron Kolesar United States Volunteer Certified Licensed Emergency Communicating Station And Volunteer Certified Licensed Ham Radio Station KR3DOG From: David Gonçalves Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 12:46 To: [email protected] Subject: [blind-gamers] Games for everyone Greetings, I’m David, a new member of the group. I hope that you are all doing ok! I'm a researcher and developer from Lisbon, Portugal and I'm currently working with the blind and low vision community to create games that can be enjoyable for players with different levels of vision, for instance games that can be played and enjoyed by the whole family and mixed-ability groups of friends. Maybe you can help me. I’m asking volunteers aged 18 or older to answer some online questions. If you’re blind or have low vision and you like to play games (videogames or tabletop games) you can help me, answering the following short Microsoft Form questionnaire: https://bit.ly/2r3XZKJ<https://bit.ly/2r3XZKJ?fbclid=IwAR2bcMsSEoqhHaRMD9azZSVoHO-qbivxUGqQrSxert11lXg2pa5u4SgkLPs>. If you’re sighted and you have a close relationship with someone blind or with low vision who likes to play, you can also help me by filling this second questionnaire: https://bit.ly/2PBBPJv<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2PBBPJv%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR28HWE_qWMKgK1jy-dsMTgMsN3yCP2POBsgjDba_u2hLZc0NEz9cLcSr0Y&h=AT2QLGqjPrO5VkqQnG2ggCd4y6rDfnQT056fkg04Q1A7ataImWdg_goY3B3Pix3OhnUokWDaMXuTSTF87HcadTbTbesXOIz8Kqjf_OlZ7Zg7wQNS975L5m2VaExEpu0fsGvcA6V9QIqZXYZltEUYqzh4LLQiFPn8VA>. If you're blind or have low vision, you can further help, sharing this second survey with your sighted friends. Counting on you! Games must be for everyone! If you're interested and want to know more, you can message me. Many thanks and best regards! David G In the good old days of Morse code Shorthand, 73's AKA Best Regards and or Best Whishes,From Ron Kolesar Volunteer Certified Licensed Emergency Communications Station And Volunteer Certified Licensed Ham Radio Station With the Call Sign of KR3DOG -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#121484): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/121484 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/69213169/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
