Troubles revealed Abletoplay A game discovery platform first accessibility. It will be launched on March 10 to help disabled players find accessible games.
With the personalized score system first in the world, Abletoplay authorizes disabled players and their families to instantly find games that meet their accessibility needs. Supported by the World Institute on Disability, Abletoplay is a pioneer of innovative means to find new favorite games, regardless of your needs, and it is available for registration and early access today.
Imagine that you have a severe handicap – how do you find out if a game has the accessibility features you need? For more than 500 million disabled players worldwide, the answer to this question involves hours of research, unplayable purchases and tons of frustration. It is the continuation of a movement that Microsoft recognized in 2018 with the launch of the Xbox adaptive controller.
Arman Nobari, founder of a studio called Good Désit, said that the company had initially decided to make hyper-accessible games, inspired by its own battle against cancer earlier in life.
“My friends from the hospital could not escape with games as I could, so I decided to play games for them,” he said in a blog article. “As part of this process, we started to deeply seek accessibility in existing games. During the analysis of games accessible to players with specific handicaps, we suddenly realized that there was a major opportunity to tackle this problem under another perspective. »»
He said that instead of adding only games to the titles swimming pool that people could play, his team could also work to connect players to already existing games that correspond to their accessibility needs and preferences – and Good problems wanted to proceed on this subject in a completely new way.
“We spent a year doing R&D, talking with thousands of disabled players, talking with studios and publishers, and talking to large non -profit organizations like the World Institute on Handicility, the game children and games for change, to develop and refine our vision “,” Nobari said. “We have formed a team of award -winning game developers, accessibility experts and Disability defenders.
Nobari said the vision was to be the best absolute way to discover games that meet your needs and preferences, and the coming year will show how it has made monumental progress.
“In other words, if you are looking for a new game, we want to be this confidence resource,” said Nobari. “For players, we bring our simple accessibility scores to more caretaker to more sites and platforms, which makes you easier than ever to see if a game suits you with unequaled clarity and equity. For developers and publishers, we are launching new ways of reaching and connecting with players who need accessible games – before, at launch and after launch. »»
Nobari said everything comes back to know if Abletoplay really helps players with disabilities and their families find new favorite games to fall in love.
“When we started to build, I was of course an anxious and excited mixture for the size of the problem we solve,” said Nobari. “But when the users started to try it, I realized which powerful and useful platform we built for the players. Strong stories and sincere messages have started to add up, so now we proudly have a whole section on our home page of our users, for whom Abletoplay was the missing piece to be allowed to find and play to Games with confidence. »»
