Inclusive Side-Scrolling Action Game Securing Accessibility for Visually Impaired People

Abstract

Though many computer games have recently become accessible for gamers with visual impairments, these players still face difficulty in manipulating game characters and acquiring visual information. It is true that although an increasing number of games for visually impaired people called audio games are being developed, many of these games cannot satisfy their basic needs because of the shortage of contents and are difficult for sighted people because of no visual information. Based on this situation, we have been developing accessible games for visually impaired people that feature enriched materials and multimodal information presentation. However, the needs of real-time action on accessible games remain unsolved. In this article, our objective is to develop an inclusive side scroller game with high real-time performance and accessibility functions for visually impaired people, and be available to play with more than one person including sighted persons.

Inclusive Action Game Presenting Real-time Multimodal Presentations for Sighted and Blind Persons

“…Notably, they created a game development environment for the blind that uses Otonove for creating text information and an audible mapper for 2D mapping. Using these tools, they also prototyped an inclusive action game and proposed the evaluation scheme for the gameplay and interface using item response theory [24,30].…”

Game

“…Notably, they also created a game development environment for the blind that uses Otonove for creating text information and Audible Mapper for 2D mapping. Using these tools, they also prototyped an inclusive action game [41].…”