If you are a blind or partially sighted person interested in pursuing a career in the video games industry, then please read on!
(more…)Author: James Kyle
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Link Pack – 08/04/23
RNIB Connect / RNIB Design For Every Gamer Launch (audioboom.com) – Sitting on news like this and not being able to talk about it is an odd form of torture, but Design for Every Gamer is finally here. Follow the link above to hear an interview about the project on RNIB Connect Radio.
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Accessible Digital Comics
I first started reading comics around 1994/1995 after finding a UK-published reprint of X-Men volume 2 issue 1 at my local newsagents. It was the height of the massive growth in comics sales, and X-Men were the biggest part of it.
I bought X-Men for a few years, and as my newsagent would change what they stocked I’d change too. I ended up reading a bunch of Spider-Man, Wolverine and Gambit solo series alongside more occasional X-Men. Eventually though I stopped. There were several reasons why this happened but by far the most difficult to overcome was my sight loss. It had deteriorated considerably in my early teens and has continued slowly deteriorating ever since. Losing much of the central part of my vision was difficult, and it was easy to justify dropping comics when they’d become so hard to read.
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Accessible Gaming Symposium
In Dundee on October 5-6, RNIB partnered with Abertay University to hold the Accessible Gaming Symposium. The two-day event saw game developers from across the works attend in person and online to discuss how games can be made more accessible to blind and partially sighted players. During the event Connect Radio recorded several interviews with attendees:
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#GaminForRNIB Community Fundraising
The Royal National Institute’s VI Gaming groups have their own separate Community Discord server, and will be holding a community fundraising event to coincide with Global Accessibility Awareness Day and RNIB’s #GamingForRNIB fundraising event.
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Abertay Graduate Show 2020 – Fhear
On May 15th The University of Abertay in Dundee are launching the Abertay Digital Graduate Show 2020, an online showcase of the creative works of its students. Abertay is known worldwide as a centre of excellence in the field of videogame development, and there will no doubt be games on display. Of those games one stands apart as relevant to a blind or visually impaired gamer, and that game is FHear by Alasdair Marnoch.
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