Video Game Studies

The AbleGamers Foundation, also known as AbleGamers Charity, is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit public charity that aims to improve the overall quality of life for those with disabilities through the power of video games.

The Game Accessibility project has been setup to inform disabled gamers about the availability of accessible games and provide resources for developers, publishers and researchers in order to stimulate accessibility in games.

A game journalism site for disabled gamers, featuring disability game reviews and perspectives on video game accessibility.

There are many educational apps and online games that will help teach reading, spelling, and much more in a playful setting — while providing beneficial practice for dealing with dyslexia.

A collaborative effort between a group of studios, specialists and academics, to produce a straightforward developer friendly reference for ways to avoid unnecessarily excluding players, and ensure that games are just as fun for as wide a range of people as possible.

A special interest group of volunteers within the International Game Developer’s Association. Their goal is to make video games playable for everyone and take special considerations for gamers with disabilities of any sort.

Meeple Like Us is engaged in mapping out the accessibility landscape of board-games, providing comprehensive accessibility teardowns of popular titles. The intention is to build up a useful resource for those players that cannot simply take a game down from the shelf and assume it's playable.

A site aimed at raising awareness and providing resources to enhance game accessibility.

The OneSwitch Library hosts a range of free downloads, articles and instructions. You will find over one hundred one switch games, William Pilgrim's 4Noah Laboratory, articles on using switches and more.

An organization that uses technology to enhance the quality of life of people with physical disabilities.

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Laura Malinverni, Joan Mora-Guiard, Vanesa Padillo, Lilia Valero, Amaia Hervás, Narcis Pares, An inclusive design approach for developing video games for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, In Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 71, 2017, Pages 535-549, ISSN 0747-5632, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.01.018.

Katie Seaborn, Jamal Edey, Gregory Dolinar, Margot Whitfield, Paula Gardner, Carmen Branje, and Deborah I. Fels. 2016. Accessible Play in Everyday Spaces: Mixed Reality Gaming for Adult Powered Chair Users. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 23, 2, Article 12 (May 2016), 28 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2893182

Per Anders Östblad, Henrik Engström, Jenny Brusk, Per Backlund, and Ulf Wilhelmsson. 2014. Inclusive game design: audio interface in a graphical adventure game. In Proceedings of the 9th Audio Mostly: A Conference on Interaction With Sound (AM '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 29 , 8 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2636879.2636909

Not all games are created equal, especially for the 70 million people with learning disabilities. Jenny Wu, Chief Product Officer of https://u.org shares why it’s important to consider them in game design, and explains actions that we can take to build more inclusive games for everyone, including the neurodiverse. This talk is from Games for Change 2021.