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Game Accessibility Mini-Summit

32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON M6J, Canada

43.6420359 -79.42320660000001

Description

Interested in learning more about game accessibility? Curious about the latest techniques, technologies, and solutions for making games for people with all kinds of abilities? Want to meet designers, developers, and players who’ve tried it all and want you to apply what they’ve learned to your projects? Join Gamma Space and DMG for an afternoon of fascinating and actionable talks on a variety of aspects of accessibility for video games, straight from members of our Toronto indie game dev community. Learn about what game developers can do to create games more people can play – from designing better subtitles to techniques for accommodating colourblind players. Schedule Talks will start promptly at 1pm. We will take a short break to chat, have refreshments and get some air at 3:15. We will wrap up at 5pm. You are welcome to stay and socialize in the space until 6pm. Speakers Shirley Tong Most designers have heard of colourblindness. And many solutions exist to address this difference in how people perceive colour. So why do so few games implement features that would make interfaces and gameplay accessible to people with colourblindness? Shirley Tong will share insights about her own experience as a colourblind person, reasons why designers fail to design colour-accessible interfaces, and considerations for anyone who wants to address colourblindness in their games. Jennifer Stienstra As a follow up to a popular presentation at DMG last year, Jennifer will present her thesis on game subtitles, diving deep into how subtitles can be done really well, and what next steps the industry as a whole needs to take to improve on them. Alex MacIntosh Biomedical Engineering PhD student Alex MacIntosh will discuss his work at Holland Bloorview, his experience in designing accessible games for therapy, designs and products they've made for kids with disabilities, and the key lessons they've learned during development. During the break, try the demo of their mixed reality therapy game Botley's Bottle Blast. Len Predko Mental Health Accessibility in Game Design is a talk about how to design games which allow for players to have a more comfortable experience with play. With one in four people experiencing mental illness in their lives, games should reflect that reality. Through the lens of LAPSES created by Checkpoint, this talk will use several games to showcase different methods for creating accessible play. They will discuss how developers owe it to friends, families, and ourselves to create games that reflect the human experience in a dignified and respectful manner. Steve Saylor Toronto-based podcaster, radio host, YouTube Gamer, Graphic Designer, and college professor Steve Saylor will share his experiences as a gamer who is also blind, provide helpful ideas on how to improve visual accessibility in video games and IRL (in real life) in his talk "Gamers First, Blind Second: Tackling Accessibility in Video Games."

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Start: 2019-06-08T13:00:00-04:00

End: 2019-06-08T17:00:00-04:00

Tickets

General Admission 20.0 CAD 30