Interview With Eitan Glinert - Accessibility in Games

During the conference I recorded a couple of interviews, so besides the keynotes I got to hang out with some cool people and talk games. One of those cool people was (well is, I am sure he is still cool...) Eitan Glinert. Eitan and others have been working on a game that is equally playable for sighted and visually impaired people. Having low vision myself, this game is pretty interesting to me. The game is called Audiodyssey, it is available now as a free download, check it out.

He is also getting going on a startup in May called Fire Hose VIdeo Games, so if you need a job in May or so, perhaps you should contact Eitan....

Music in this episode is from Uncle Seth, (whose bass player I hung out with at the Toronto Podcast Meetup on Thursday, November 15) and The Mark Harold Band.

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T6 Flashback 12 - Mia Consalvo

I did not get a chance to go to Mia's talk yesterday, as I was off to the Toronto Podcast Meetup (which was cool BTW, thanks to Scarborough Dude, John Meadows, Mark Blevis et al). However, I interviewed Mia on T6, episode 52, so I thought I would post that.

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John Lester's Keynote

John Lester spoke yesterday at lunch (so you will hear some plates etc in the background...)

John is Linden Lab's Boston Operations Director and Academic Program Manager, oh and his SL name is Pathfinder Linden.

His talk was a lot of fun, check it out.

Constance Steinkuehler's Keynote

Constance Steinkuehler opened the show today, WOW. (I mean WOW both as like 'wow' and the gaming way....).

It turns out the playing MMO RPGs helps kids with literacy and scientific reasoning!

Enjoy the talk

Share Your Game Stories

Diane Devenyi, an MA student in education at York is distributing flyers around the conference. I just interviewed her for T6, and it sounds like a cool project. Basically she is trying to put a book together on the 'Chicken Soup' model.

Do you have game stories? Has gaming changed you? Has it changed your friends? Let Diane know at fearlessmaster@hotmail.com.

Don't forget to tag your posts and photos...

Well I gave a few introductory remarks at FuturePlay, asking everyone to tag their posts and photos. (Sadly I forgot my camera cable...).

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Let's Make FutrePlay More Social

FuturePlay is a great event, and I know I always have a great time meeting new people, be they academics or industry types. One of the greatest things about FP (and frankly any other conference) is the social part. You meet new people, you end up going for a beer or a coffee, you go for dinner, or you just hang out between sessions.

OK, so it is social too, let's use this whole new fangled web 2.0 to be more social. How you might ask.. Well, I have learned a few things from some buddies of mine at events like Podcasters Across Borders, Podcamps, Barcamps etc. First off we have twitter. Let's twitter where we are going for a beer, where we are hanging out, or even just simple things like 'I want to go for dinner in Chinatown, anyone interested?' On twitter I am dbrodbeck So we can track tweets from each other, why don't we put FP07 at the start of each post?

I have the same name on Pownce (which has the added bonus of file sharing and friends lists).

We have a facebook group (two actually..) so feel free to post on the wall there or start some threads.

Another cool thing to do is to upload your pics to flickr and your vids to youtube. Please add the tag FuturePlay2007 to all pictures and videos from the conference. Oh yeah, if you are blogging or podcasting from the conference or about it, add that same tag.

As it has been said before, welcome to the social, and let's have a great conference.