Tampokme : A Multi-Users Audio Game Accessible To Visually And Motor Impaired People
Résumé
We present in this paper a quick overview of the games accessible to the people who are visually impaired. First, these audio games require often a too great number of commands: for this reason, they are hard to learn and many people do not enjoy playing them. Second, the users want more audio games with multiplayer feature. This paper presents the audio game TAMPOKME, which is accessible to people who are visually and motor impaired. It can be played from one to four players and combines principles of competition and cooperation. We describe in this paper the methodology that enables us to produce such a game. After presenting the aims of TAMPOKME, we detail its interface and gameplay. We then present how this audio game has been improved, in a sound design perspective, by the students of the Graduate School of Games and Interactive Medias, France, and the interface qualities that have resulted from it. It is possible to make an audio game with very simple control. In that way, such a game can be easier to learn and it can be enjoyed by another community than the visually impaired one.