Jesse Anderson On Accessible Games
Thanks for joining us, today we are sitting down with Jesse Anderson from IllegallySIghted on YouTube to discuss Low Vison and Blind Accessible video games!
0:00 Start
1:10 Cory's Vision Backstory and Reminiscing on Old School video games.
7:00 Introducing Jesse Anderson, creating his channel, what content he makes
10:50 Jesse Anderson's Vision Backstory
12:00 The State of the Industry: Accessibility in Gaming
14:00 Developer POV, how is Accessibility considered in an Indie vs AAA Game? Unity vs Unreal
19:00 Comments from the Audience. Visually Prepared Gaming (VPG is an upcoming community)
20:10 Accessing Gaming as a Blind or Low Vision Developer? When will game design itself be accessible?
21:30 Which specific platforms, console, devices, online platforms are generally better than others.
28:00 Which Games do you recommend? What is best for Cory? Other demographics?
30:00 Valve and Steam generally.
35:00 Best XBox Games? Forza Motorsports, Mortal Kombat One, The Last of Us
41:45 World of Warcraft and other older games collect mods over time which can be helpful.
43:00 Doom, specifically Toby as a great example of how older games can be made accessible!
46:00 Shouting out Indie Games such as: Stories of Blossom, and also Brock the Investigator
49:00 Ending thoughts, contact info
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