Here are some notes on accessibility in game design from Henry Jenkins and Eitan Glinert (one of his students). Glinert has written a thesis on designing games that are accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities. He shares two key ideas:

"Make a game about sad."

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Humane Games Presentation

Agenda

1. Playtest
2. 3rd Game with Formal Constraint
3. Intro to Conceptual Constraints (communicative games; games about stuff)

Ground Rules for Playtesting

Today we started with a short discussion of playtesting. Here are some quick points:

Drawing matters for design in industry. Schematics, who create interactive experiences for the Xbox made a presentation at the conference I'm attending. They create some crazy, amazing interfaces for EA that demand that the creator understand space, visually. Wow!

This was contributed to my by Devin Monnens. It's a link to an interview with the head of Nintendo, Iwata-san, where he discusses Miyamoto-san's definitions of "idea" and goals for "design". I'll include a snippet, but it's worth chasing the link. Shigeru Miyamoto created Donkey Kong, all of the Super Mario Titles, and all of the Legend of Zelda titles for Nintendo. Miyamoto-san has made some of the most important and the most fun videogames in history. When he speaks, game designers listen: