Many factors keep us from being included. A big one is a jenuine lack
of awareness of our capabilities. Incidentally, we can't play either
of the two games chosen as being worthy of the Able Gamers Most
accessible Games of the Year awards. This is despite one of them being
mostly text-based and turn-based. We often simply aren't thought of as
an audience worthy of making efforts for from an economic point of
view. Also, developers must often choose between game engines which
make it far easier to do what they want but don't offer easy ways to
make the games accessible or an engine which doesn't allow for as much
pollish or glash but might make it easier to render a game accessible.
Other times, such as with board games, the economic and conceptual
challenges of how to make games accessible get in the way. Until
64ounce games appeared, we were essentially stuck playing older less
popular board or card games if we wanted them to be fully accessible.
At last, we've reached a point where technology and funding models
like Kickstarter bring us fresh possibilities for inclusive play. I'll
be discussing this in the lecture and question period. You can read a
better blurb at:
www.accessibleworld.org
On 1/8/15, Charles Rivard wrote:
> Regarding the first entry, my immediate question would be, "Why would blind
>
> people not be included? We are people, and we do play games, after all?
> Why would any people be excluded?
>
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> you! really! are! finished!
> - Original Message -
> From: "Jacob Kruger"
> To: "Gamers Discussion list"
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 10:49 AM
> Subject: [Audyssey] Two items from weekly top tech titbits relating to
> gaming
>
>
>> Firstly, you can read/subscribe to the weekly top tech titbits here:
>> http://www.flying-blind.com/tidbits2015/01082015/index.html
>>
>> And, from this weeks edition/issue:
>>
>> 1) Take part in a lecture and question period discussing the history,
>> current and future possibilities of accessible games and why it matters
>> that blind people are included, on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 13 January at
>>
>> 01:00:
>> http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2
>>
>>
>>
>> 3) Back to games, AbleGamers select the most accessible mainstream games
>> of 2014:
>> http://www.mediaaccess.org.au/latest_news/digital-technology/ablegamers-select-most-accessible-games-of-2014
>>
>>
>> Jacob Kruger
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