If you are a blind or partially sighted person interested in pursuing a career in the video games industry, then please read on!
(more…)Category: Game Dev.
All Game Dev. stuff.
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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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Audiogame Jam
Audiogame Jam was an event that ran each autumn between 2016 and 2018. It was a game jam event designed to promote accessibility in games and raise money for RNIB. It was more successful than I expected in gathering coverage and game submissions but did not ultimately raise much money. It’s something I’m very glad I undertook as it introduced me to many people within the videogame accessibility world and I learned a great deal from the experience.
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Audiogame Jam Post-Mortem
Audiogame Jam is a game jam event that ran between August 26th and September 5th 2016. The challenge was to make games playable in audio only so that those people with limited or no sight would be able to play them It was run to raise money for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, a charity that provides support and services to people with sight loss across the UK. RNIB are a charity that have provided me with a great deal of support since my sight loss through macular degeneration, and Audiogame Jam is my attempt to pay back some of that help through fund-raising,