Improving Games for Those with Cognitive Disabilities | Designing for Disability

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A Game Maker's Toolkit episode in the Designing for Disability series on how games can be made better for players with cognitive disabilities. It looks at design choices and options that make games easier to understand and play.

HN people list it among the Game Maker's Toolkit accessibility videos as great overviews of how accessibility has played out in the games industry.

“Game Maker's Toolkit has some great overviews of how this has played out in the game's industry for folks interested.”

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@tawb2023 · in “Ask HN: What niche technical scene or topics are you fond/part of?”
My coworkers and I loved the responses to a previous post and thought I would bring it back every so often for folks who missed it. Original submission: link Right now I'm diving into accessibility in video games and what I can learn for building web apps that are more customizable. Game Maker's Toolkit has some great overviews of how this has played out in the game's industry for folks interested. 2021: link 2020: link 2019: link Colorblindness: link Cognitive Disabilities: ▶ this video
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@doppp2019 · in “Making Games Better for Players with Cognitive Disabilities”
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