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Thursday, 13 October 2005 |
Terraformers
Award Winning 3D Game also playable by blind
The game is a visual / audio hybrid playable by both sighted and sight disabled / blind. The interface features below was awarded with the "Innovation In Audio Award" at the Independent Games Festival 2003. It was developed with partial financial support from the Swedish Handicap Institute.
Playable Demo / Spelbar demo
Upgrade / Uppgradera
Sound samples
Gamer feedback
I love the game and am looking forward to playing more. Thanks to you and the rest of your team for the work you are doing.
/Jim Dorman (April 2009)
Not only is the game audio and audio navigation some of the best I've seen in an accessible game, I particularly like the atmospheric descriptions, and the way multiple nav sounds are distinguishable, but it's also really nice for me to have a game which also allows me to use what vision I have together with the audio interface.
I cannot usually play 3d games sinse the spacial relations are far too visually complex for me to handle (even when the graphics of the game are visible to me). I've played several audio 3D First person games, and while I find myself quite able to navigate and enjoy the game with the audio provided, ---- I do miss the extra information, ---- not to mention atmosphere and environmental awareness which I would get visually.
It's really great to see this sort of fusion in a game like terraformers, sinse so many accessible games only use audio.
I'd love to see more games like this, --- and would be really interested to here of any future plans you have at pin interactive.
all the best, and looking forward to playing the rest of Terraformers
/Dark (April 2008)
- Terraformers is really great! A friend of mine told me about it that it is a "must play"
/Robin Kipp (May 2007)
Terraformers is a great game! It's truly the best game I've ever played!
/Jay Thompson (July 11, 2006) Terraformers is the best I've come across. I've played many accessible games, but they are just too simple for my liking. This is the first adventure game I've played where the sighted as well as the blind can play.
/Ryan Miller - I am one happy person that you are making this game. I have been waiting for something like this for so long. I want to integrate with my friends, not be segregated from them
/Gabriel Vega - Terraformers is great, it's truly wonderful! And God bless you in producing other games for sighted and unsighted people alike
/ Jay Thompson - I'm totally blind, and I am a science fiction fan. Terraformers is wonderful. I very much appreciate it, and I bought the game as fast as I could
/ Teresa Cochran - I've downloaded Terraformers, and I love it
/ Daniel Perry - just email to say what a brilliant game Terraformers is, I've been enjoying it very much
/Ari Damoulakis - I completed all missions of Terraformers. I took long time to finish and it is great game I think.
/ Katsutoshi Tsuji
Some media attention:
Swedish site Fragzone writes about Terraformers
"Swedish Pin Interactive has now gone as far as released a game that is playable by both sighted and blind, and also has a high contrast mode for gamers with low vision. Although the game graphics is not like Half-Life 2, it is still an interesting and promising initiative. "
(Translated from Swedish PC Gamer Magazine)
"Terraformers, by the Swedish team Pin Interactive, won the "Innovation in Audio" award at the Independent Games Festival for their adaptation of an auditory feedback system which allows a blind player to navigate through a 3D world. It was refreshing to see the award go to this type of application and was definitely well deserved"
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