If they asked you advice on making a video game for people with disability what would you say?

Initially I would say that you are attempting to solve the wrong problem. You are discussing finding something fun for people with disabilities. I suspect that most people with disabilities find the same things to be fun that people without disabilities find to be fun.





Instead I would recommend finding out the limitations of the disability, and adapting the controls and feedback provided by an existing game to better match what your specific person likes to do.





For people who have full cognitive capacity, but lack dexterity, you may look for alternative controls.





For instance, take a look at this device:


http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/


it is a head mounted controller, which controls 6 dimensions, the equivalent of 12 buttons, but with finer granularity, it would work for low quadriplegia, as well as people with many other disabilities independently of whatever other control the person is currently using.





For deaf users who want to play action games, look to games which provide force feedback. so the controller vibrates when you get hit.





If complexity of operating a computer with full blown titles are the problem, I would recommend looking at getting Nintendo ds lite(cheap with long battery life, light weight and durable), and then going by a pawn shop and picking up some of the first gen games, like tetris.





If the person can operate a computer just fine, and can use standard controls, but has limited capabilities, like due to having a single functioning limb, I would recommend taking a look at flash games, like at:


http://www.popcap.com/


Where you need a functional mouse with a single button to operate most of their games.





If the person has various cognitive disorders, traditional games may not hold much interest, you might want to look into puzzle games. Puzzle games fall into two categories, automated puzzle games, like sudoku, and hand generated games like crossword puzzles. Puzzle games are available in magazines in the puzzle section of most large book stores. Each magazine may offset a couple dozen hours of boredom.





-MichaelIf they asked you advice on making a video game for people with disability what would you say?
Be sure it has an option to slow it down or to play it in small chunks with the ';win'; being just as good as if it were done all at once or at a faster speed.





Some games have levels of play - and the point system is higher when you play faster - that works as a disadvantage to a person with slower responses or fatigues easily.If they asked you advice on making a video game for people with disability what would you say?
it would depend on disability


4 my son who has downs touch screen one as essayer to use ..... for my Friend that has MD+ma then one that can be used with mouse only as only very limited use ...for def people text as some instructions are spoken and if you cant hear then that's useless ain't it....
They did it when they brought out the wii,my son can use it,he has downs syndrome/autism he loves it so much.


He loves the wii sports game/bowling.
I like role play game, making the right decision and earning things.

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