- Is neurodivergent
- Has experienced a traumatic event - Stories From Sol: The Gun-Dog. Hansen Crwys and the protagonist are the lone survivors of a catastrophic battle at the opening of the game, and both struggle to find meaning and solace in the aftermath
- Has a physical disability
- Is a different race than you
- Identifies as transgender, nonbinary, or genderqueer
- Has a mental illness
- Is LGBTQIA+
- Is indigenous
- Is a member of a diaspora - Citizen Sleeper 2
- Is a refugee or fleeing persecution
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- Is neurodivergent
- Has experienced a traumatic event - Stories From Sol: The Gun-Dog
- Has a physical disability
- Is a different race than you
- Identifies as transgender, nonbinary, or genderqueer - Capes. Kinetic is a non-binary superhero who specializes in building ult charge for their team and also punching stuff really hard. They’re played by a trans masc actor, Yasser Zadeh
- Has a mental illness
- Is LGBTQIA+
- Is indigenous
- Is a member of a diaspora - Citizen Sleeper 2
- Is a refugee or fleeing persecution
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I promise I am still working on this challenge… I’m just taking forever to do all the routes in Katawa Shoujo.
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- Is neurodivergent
- Has experienced a traumatic event - Stories From Sol: The Gun-Dog
- Has a physical disability
- Is a different race than you
- Identifies as transgender, nonbinary, or genderqueer - Capes
- Has a mental illness
- Is LGBTQIA+ - Lost Records: Bloom and Rage. Everyone’s gay
- Is indigenous
- Is a member of a diaspora - Citizen Sleeper 2
- Is a refugee or fleeing persecution
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Y’all have suggestions for a game developed by someone who has a physical disability? I’m struggling to find anyone.
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Through Laura Kate Dale I know a few names of consultants for games that have a physical disability. They do work for games but as free agents not fully employed by the studios.
SightlessKombat is a gamer without sight, and accessibility consultant who I first discovered by watching his gameplay videos playing the Last of Us 2 based solely on audio cues. His work directly on games has included working on the upcoming Stories of Blossom, a point and click adventure game with audio descriptions, designed with sightless players in mind.
Brandon Cole is a blind accessibility consultant, who is currently working with the developers of the upcoming Forza Motorsport to make the racing sim series accessible to sightless blind players. His work is looking like it could help take a huge step forward for accessibility in the technical racing genre, and is hugely exciting to see unfold.
TheOakenForest is an accessibility consultant currently working on the Forza series, but who is also notable for their work on the BSL Gaming Glossary, a database aiming to comprehensively chronicle all British Sign Language gaming terminology, in order to improve consistency in gaming specific BSL.
source: Gaming Accessibility Creators You Should Be Following – Access-Ability
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Jim Dattilo makes pulpy fun genre games! Zombie Exodus and its sequel are his biggest hits and center around an ungodly amount of player choice and consequence. Vampire: Out for Blood is cool too, and is the only game I can think of that has a wheelchair-using character written by an actual wheelchair user.
Hyper Light Drifter’s another good one, with a story inspired by co-designer Alx Preston’s congenital heart disease.
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Thank you both for the suggestions. It helped quite a bit. :))
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I hope more people with accessibility needs see this, and that more people support developers who focus on accessibility, as well as developers with disabilities who can enrich game development with their first-hand knowledge.
On AbleToPlay, you could already find games that match your accessibility needs — now you can take it one step further and discover inclusive, accessibility-focused creators who do the same!
To find here: https://abletoplay.com/
This could also be helpful for the Diverse Experiences Challenge.
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