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10 months ago

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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