Goddamn, I have been doing a lot of interviewing lately. How much, you say? Well…a lot. I’m not sure how to make that funny. Bollocks.
Anyways, the latest one up on GameSetWatch today is a talk with Barrie Ellis from OneSwitch. You may remember Barrie’s involvement with the 2006 Retro Remakes competition as Accessibility Advisor. The work he does, not only with OneSwitch and Retro Remakes, but also with the International Game Developers Association’s Game Accessibility Special Interest Group (with whom he’ll be speaking at the Brighton Game Developers Conference this Friday) is nothing short of amazing. It just stumps me how there would not be more thought put into accessibility for disabled gamers. As Barrie points out, it doesn’t need to be big things that change, but even simple things like subtitles and support for colour blind people. But I guess that’s why we need people like Barrie.
Incidentally, while it was nice to see Joystiq and Kotaku pick up the interviews with Telltale Games and Henry Jenkins, I’m guessing they won’t do the same with this one. I’d love for them to prove me wrong though, and not simply because I’m a kerrrrrrazzzzzy egotist - mostly because, in all seriousness, the more people we can get thinking about these issues the better.