Here’s the reality: there’s over 650M gamers with a disability in the world! When games lack accessibility, players get left out, & that stinks! We partnered w/ @safeinourworld.org, @specialeffect.org.uk , & @makersmakingchange.bsky.social to make sure EVERYONE can play!
Hey there! 👋
We’re Good Trouble, a team of gamers dedicated to accessibility in games & studios & today we’re taking over GDC’s socials! We made AbleToPlay, a FREE site designed to help you find games that fit your accessibility, phobia, and mental health needs!
abletoplay.com
Accessibility matters because ✨ FUN ✨ matters, and we want every gamer to be able to join us on our next raid! We gotta run now, but follow us on @abletoplay.com and join our community on Discord here: tinyurl.com/AbleToPlayDi...
Are you in? 👾
This is legit amazing! The principles doc is great and super well-rounded. Love to see it.
This week we kick started an accessibility-first game jam with the University of Staffordshire. Central to the students’ game jam challenge is a focus on using our principles document produced specifically for the jam. These principles have now been made public! 👀 www.tencent.com/en-us/media/...
The best thing I’ve read today:
”Accessibility isn’t a spell you cast at the end of a sprint.”
- @annaecook.com
It has been incredibly difficult to find games in Steam Next Fest that have accessibility tags. Devs PLEASE if you have a demo, and you might have some accessibility options, ADD ACCESSIBILITY TAGS!
For now though AbleToPlay has a great curated list below of accessible demos to try.
Accessible games!? Yes please!
It's that time of the year again! It's Steam Next Fest! 🎮
We'll be sharing demos of games we're excited to play with amazing accessibility features until March 2nd! 🎉🎉
Share and repost to help shine a spotlight on these amazing games and their developers!
Glad I made time to add a #HardOfHearing mode. One of the clues is a quiet knocking behind the doors. This would have been an #accessibility problem for a lot of people. So I added a toggle that replaces the knocking with a visual effect. :)
#inclusivegaming #ablegamers #gamedesign #BrackeysGameJam
A son of sharecroppers, a Freedom Rider, a moral force in Congress, John Lewis taught us that democracy is not a state, it is an act. When we see injustice, we do not look away. We get in good trouble. And we build bridges despite adversity. Happy Heavenly Birthday, Congressman.
ah this is awesome
The developers behind one of our favorite super-accessible games, Lil' Guardsman, just announced their new game TODAY. We took an early sneak-peek and can confirm, we think it's *great*.
Really excited for what's to come for this game!
Extremely stoked for this!! It's SO good!
Hey there!
I'm writing an article about C-PTSD and puzzles. I would love to speak to creators who have C-PTSD and how puzzles (video-games, TTRPG, or physical ones) helped YOU navigate it. 🧡
Please DM or email me at tess@goodtrouble.team to get in touch!
We're stoked for another year of talks from our the accessible games community! We'll be tuning in to learn and support our peers. 🧡
The 17th (😮) #GAConf will be the Europe edition on April 27th-28th! Fully online, free to attend.
Two days of talks & networking, the central hub for the professional game accessibility community to come together, learn, share, & make connections.
Register at www.gaconf.com
#gamedev #accessibility
Absolutely love to see it!
does their dream game have *doors*?
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
Xbox Research wants to hear from anyone who plays video games! Tell us which settings and accessibility options, like text size adjustments, single-input options, screen readers, you use in our survey!
survey.alchemer.com/s3/8671308/X...
#Accessibility #GameAccessibility #InclusiveDesign
We sat down with Ben “./yemáko” @badgameszip.itch.io, the creator of an unplayable game?!, to talk about the importance of accessibility, and how he approached designing a 15-minute game where turning on accessibility settings is required to, well… actually play the game. 😉🎮
“Just hold every key simultaneously, and bam!”
The day has finally arrived?! 🎉 Congrats!!
Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game.
Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era.
The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
Seeing this come to life from that early prototype to the fully formed, absolutely weird, seriously clever game it became, was so freaking cool 🔥
This looks absolutely incredible
“Please enjoy the museum”:
Relooted is OUT NOW!
Please share!
Every roll has a chance for a Nat-0, I guess?
