“Can I play that?” This is a question facing gamers with disabilities, just about every time they pick up a new game. It’s also the name of a robust accessibility resource co-foun…
“The fact that the kinds of stories that I was reading in books were now being told in games was huge to me. When I played, it was kind of the moment that made me realize I want[ed] to be a writer, but I want to write in this industry.”
“It was kind of the moment of, ‘oh wow, they’re really listening,'” Craven recalls. “I think it felt that way throughout the community, because all of us who had been advocating for this kind of had that crying moment: seeing that this is everything that I need to be able to play the game.” As Martin says on his Twitch channel, his physical limitations continue to be both exciting and frustrating: “With anybody, if there’s something that’s really hard, and they beat it, they’re excited: wow, I finally got through it! Imagine that times 10. Because everything is really hard, by comparison.” He adds, “In that frustration, I keep fighting through.”
Martin says that many games focus on deaf, hard of hearing, color blindness and blindness — but, for him, the issue is dexterity. There are some games that he “absolutely cannot play,” just by design, though he doesn’t blame the game developers. “It’s just part of who I am.”
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