7-128.com Accessible Gaming Web Sites Awards - 2011
0 Comments Published by OneSwitch.org.uk on Monday, March 21, 2011 at 4:03 AM.
It's that time of year again, where 7-128.com have reviewed and ranked the best of accessible gaming sites. They have broken these down into three categories, being Hearing, Mobility and Sight related.
Big hearty congratulations to DeafGamers, OneSwitch.org.uk and PCS Games, and everyone else who made the list. You may or may not agree with 7-128's ordering, but there's no denying what a useful list they've produced leading to such a huge wealth of information. The push for greater accessibility continues...
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Strange Attractors 2
0 Comments Published by OneSwitch.org.uk on Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 7:31 AM.
Strange Attractors 2 by Ominous Development, is looking fantastic. It's the follow up to one of the finest one button games ever - Strange Attractors. This time around two switches are needed (emulating the left mouse click and the right mouse click) - and a powerful PC (mine isn't up to the job sadly).
Your controls enable activation of positive or negative gravitational forces in nearby floating objects in order to manipulate your orb about the screen. Take a look at the video clip above for an idea of what you need to do. It's looking very nice indeed, and has already been nominated for an award at PennyArcade.com's PAX-10.
The game has a one button menu system that kicks in after about 5 seconds. For one button gamers - team play may be the solution (one player has positive gravity control, the second negative). I'm also wondering straight away if a 4Noah profile could be used to make this game one-switch compatible. I'll keep you posted.
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Game Over - Universally Inaccessible Game
0 Comments Published by OneSwitch.org.uk on Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 5:34 AM.
"Game Over!" is the world's first (and hopefully only) universally inaccessible game. This practically means that it is a game that can be played by no one. But why was such a game created? Well, the goal of Game Over! is to be used as an educational tool for disseminating, understanding and consolidating game accessibility guidelines.
There are 20 guidelines included, of which it would be wonderful to see mainstream developers take heed of. Even if it was only for them to include fully reconfigurable controls and wide difficulty options - that would at least be a start! There is an anti-dote to "Game Over!" you'll be happy to know, in: "Terrestial Invaders".
Game Over has recently won the People's Choice award at "Play Arcadia," within FuturePlay, Toronto.
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