Tag Archives: accessible gaming

Legend of Grimrock Developers Make Their Game Accessible to All Gamers with Limited Accessibility

When someone on the Legend of Grimrock's commented and asked about clickable on-screen arrow navigation for the upcoming Indie dungeon crawling game, developers said they had no plans to make said feature. When they found out that the comment came from a gamer with limited movement, they changed their plans and made it possible for people like the commenter (who goes by the handle name of HarpoonIPA), who uses a mouth stick for typing and gaming.
Legend of Grimrock is an old-school dungeon exploration game from developer company [...]

EVIL CONTROLLERS AND THE ABLEGAMERS FOUNDATION BRING ACCESSIBILITY BACK TO GAMING

The Adroit SwitchBlade is now available for purchase at Evil Controllers dot com

Tempe, AZ. (September 2011) - Evil Controllers and the AbleGamers Foundation have collaborated to create the Adroit Switchblade. The Adroit was revealed at PAX Prime during the PAX panel Gamers Doing Good. The Adroit Controller is a gaming controller to help alleviate the difficulties that gamers with limited mobility may encounter when playing their favorite video games.

Evil Controllers has always focused on helping gamers play games in their favorite way, whether it be gameplay mods [...]

Ben Heckendorn, creator of the Portal Shirt

When it comes to hacking hardware, Ben Heckendorn is considered something along the lines of a god. Mr. Heckendorn has been known to make hacks of hardware such as the Xbox 360 laptop and the Nes-On-A-Chip portable device. Well this time he went a different route and instead of focusing on a console, he focused on apparel and one of this year's best selling games, Portal 2.
Ben created the world's first Portal shirt. Yes, you heard me, a portal shirt,which you can read in this link. The shirt is the first of its kinda [...]

Playing computer / video games help stroke victims in recovery.

Medical scientists have discovered that video games can help in the recovery of a patient from paralysis after suffering from a stroke. From the information found here, it states from an article published in the Journal of Neuro Engineering and Rehabilitation, computer simulations and techniques used mainly in the film industry can help produce computer-generation actions. These actions can help restore lost functions in an impaired arm caused by the stroke.
They added that current training medical programs that focus on regaining hand and arm movements use both robotic training aids [...]

A Little Helps a Lot

Everyday my email gets spammed with tons of junk mail, but the most pile up junk mail I receive is from daily deal sites. (And yes this is my own fault for originally signing up, but sometimes they have some great deals!) The other day I was contacted by the Philanthoper.com. And their websiteintriguedme. The Philanthoper.com has a similar concept to the daily deal sites, but instead of attempting to sell you meaningless products, they instead promote a different 501(c)3 nonprofit every day. And if you like the nonprofit they are promoting you are able [...]

EVIL CONTROLLERS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THEIR PARTNERSHIP WITH ABLEGAMERS

Tempe, AZ. (May 2011) – After having worked closely together in the past, Evil Controllers is pleased to announce their partnership with The AbleGamers Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to helping those with limited mobility. AbleGamers is located in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia and they are dedicated to bringing greater accessibility in the digital entertainment space so that people with limited mobility can gain a greater quality of life and develop a rich social life that gaming can bring. Evil Controllers has had limited funding to produce accessible controllers [...]

Modded Controllers: NOMAD Controller

This controller is based off the gamer Randy Fitzgerald, who is also known as N0M4D. Despite his challenges he faces on a day to day basis, he continues to inspire people today with his gaming skills and overcoming all obstacles by his highly skilled gameplay in various various like Call of Duty and Halo. So in honor of him, Evil Controllers introduces the Nomad controller, the most adaptable modded controller there is out there.
With this modded controller, you may have either 2 or 4 additional buttons mapped to the backside of the controller. These buttons are [...]

Meet Mike Begum, avid Street Fighter 4 and gamer who overcame his challenges.
Kotaku and CrossCounter TV met up with Mike Begum, who is probably one of the best Chun-Li using fighting game fans out there. Mike was born with arthrogryposis. Arthrgryposis is arare congenital condition which is characterized by multiple jointcontractualand can lead tomuscularweakness and fibrosis. In Mike's case, he is only able to use partial use of his one function arm.
But like our friend Randy "N0M4D" Fitzgerald, Mike overcame the odds and become an avid gamer in games like Smash Brothers and Street Fighter. Also like Randy, he uses [...]

German University students unlocks the capability of the Kinect to help the blind.

At the Universität Konstanz in Germany, some graduate students have put together a project in using the Kinect to help the blind. Seen here, the students are using a helmet-mounted Kinect and its visual data to relay audio instructions to a wireless headset. These audio instructions would give the blind user warnings about upcoming obstructions and also general directions. They call this project the NAVI, Navigational Aids for the Visually Impaired.
The device also includes feedback vibration motor on a belt, so that it will send out a pulse [...]

Terry Proves Gaming While Blind is Possible.
Terry Garrett, a mechanical engineering student from Colorado is able to play an almost perfect game of Abes Exoddus. Not impressed? When if I told you this player was not only an excellent gamer but that he is also blind.
Having lost his first eye at the age of five and his second eye at the age of 10, Terry relies upon sounds, learning limitations of the world through trial and error, and quick-save convenience.
2D games, which are easier to navigate and those that pack great sounds, making it less of a challenge to track [...]