Rami Ismail: Advocating for games globally
Game developer Rami Ismail champions accessibility and diversity in the global gaming industry, creating platforms for cross-cultural knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Accessibility
The neglected history of videogames for the blind
The game starts with a black screen. A woman’s voice, speaking in Japanese: “Real Sound. Kaze no Regret. This software brought to you by WARP Inc.” A string quartet, swelling and romantic, begins to play—press the start button, and the music stops suddenly with the sound of a bell. A light hiss of s
Cat++ turns our feline obsession into a coding language
Cat++ is a code developed by Nora O’ Murchú, an Irish new media art curator, designer, and academic. Oh, and a cat lover, of course. Created during a residency at Access Space in the UK, Cat++ is thought of as a one-of-a-kind “cat simulator.” The coding alternates cat interactions with random and un
A closer look at the audio game console from 1980
Did you know there were such things as audio-only game consoles? We’re going way back to 1978 for the first of these, Mego’s 2XL Robot, which had you insert 8-track cassettes that told jokes, hosted quizzes, and gave you mathematical problems to solve. But that’s not what classic game enthusiast zad
The electronic board game bringing blind children more opportunities to play
The benefits of play should be accessible.