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Disabled players get new life through video games

2017-04-07
I used to play Skyrim and fallout I used to play doom and halo I can't play those games anymore for disabled people the hardest part of a video game is figuring out how to play with 33 million disabled gamers in the u.s. players have to find innovative workarounds like playing with your face or creating new controllers so I have a quad stick it's a sip-and-puff controller used by gamers who either quadriplegic or have different physical disabilities and you completely use your mouth to game so say if you're driving a car and you want the car to go faster you then blow air in here to make the car go faster if you're playing Skyrim and you want to move the character through the woods you would steer using the joystick capability here at AbleGamers the charity organization helps people by providing controllers that best fit their needs this is a little strange like the placement a little tight but I mean obviously everything I could get used to Kristi Moyer wants to play video games again with her husband I have a servo palsy and my right arm in my right leg and I can't really game anymore with my husband six seven years ago I was able to play two player games with my husband and could successfully move the controller like everybody else up and down shooting and then it just started to deteriorate who became a tradition for both of us we play we enjoy ourselves sometimes we dedicate a whole Saturday to just gaming we share these things and we have you know traditions and even when we play Civilization six you know the first thing I'll type at the very beginning as I love you even if we're sitting right next to each other and AbleGamers provides a custom solution with a USB panel originally made for graphic designers and a foot board to control movement so with this I can like make this my you know visual and I can move back and forth and then I could use the keyboard for the movement or something or the run of the jump and I think that's gonna open doors for me that's one really really cool AbleGamers founder mark barley is always looking for solutions for disabled gamers which sometimes can be as simple as just putting the controller down AbleGamers is always about exploiting movement if you can move it how do we exploit it we see the potential in everything it doesn't have to be a disability product for us to figure out how to use it instead saying no I don't feel like it tonight I don't want to play sip six I want to place their sex tonight because I have this
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