[senit] motivating mouse games

Paul - have alook at Terristial invaders
http://www.ics.forth.gr/hci/ua-games/ti/
 a huge range of configurable options
1. Adjustable game speed. 
2. Adjustable size of all game graphics. 
3. Separately adjustable FX, music and speech volume. 
4. 2D sound for localizing objects on a 2D plane. 
5. Presentation of spatially localised captions using text and / or graphics for visualizing all game sounds. 
6. Reading aloud (for the visually impaired) and automatic scanning (for the motor-impaired) of the game menus. 
7. Two high contrast modes (bright graphics on dark background and the inverse). 
8. Two novel alternative types of audio descriptions (a summarizing and a more detailed one) that verbalise the relative position of attacking spaceships
in relation to the player and warn for incoming fire. 
9. The option of using simple shapes (e.g., rectangles, ellipses) to render all graphic elements. This option can be useful to people with severe visual
impairments, by allowing them to replace detailed graphics with big blobs with high-contrast colors solid in combination with 2D sound and audio descriptions.
Additionally, it can also be handy to people with some types of cognitive impairments. 
10. Controls can also be redefined, but currently this can only be done by editing the respective XML level description files. 

Also a couple of other games on the same site.

See also the Game-on site for a database of accessible games searchable by access need http://www.gameonbeta.org.uk/

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From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Nisbet
Sent: 30 April 2007 17:12
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Subject: [senit] motivating mouse games

A client is trying out a head operated mouse device and we would like some games with nice large targets for practice. He was playing Mouse Skills - nice big targets - which he thought was OK but he asked if there were any games with "more carnage" (he's 11). Any suggestions? (preferably free or
cheap)

Paul

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