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Hello
everybody my name is Pawel Miechowski, I work as a Senior Writer at 11 Bit Studios we are
a game development company from Warsaw Poland. Here I am to talk about Includification, this
year at Pax East in Boston I met Steve Spohn from the AbleGamers Foundation and this was
one of my first steps to be introduced to Includification, then when I got back to Poland,
I was asked by polygon.pl which is a Polish website about gaming. I was asked to write
an article about accessibility and coincidentally I guess and this was another step for me to
be introduced to the community of gamers with disabilities and at this moment I started
to think what simple features we could implement in our game to make it more accessible.
That being said we started to implement features in our game to make it more accessible maybe
not so big features but on the other hand this was our first introduction so to speak
to includification and being relatively small independent team it's not that easy for us
because of time and money to implement many features but we did some for example in an
anomaly 2 our latest game released lately on steam we made remappable keys, we four
difficulty levels, the easiest level being very accessible I believe
Plus we have video tutorials, each video tutorials is accompanied by speech to explain everything
about this particular part of the tutorial, video tutorials can be re-watched at any time
a player wishes. Plus we have training levels to practice proper parts of the game. And
I think we have made intuitive manuals, this is of course relative opinion, but we redesigned
the menus to make it slightly more clear and again more accessible.
Here's my message to other developers. Here at 11 bit studios we're fully aware that the
fact that we could have made more. So I hope to deliver more features in the upcoming updates
like changeable font colors and changeable font size. and these are small features that
we have made. Still this is something so here's my message you please take a look at includification
document everything is clearly explained there and will let you know how you can make your
game more accessible for gamers with disabilities.
Thank you for your time and keep on gaming.