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Music game ideas

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Ideas for a music game for children who are blind.

  • How about picking the next note for a tune?
  • Or how about a program that allows you to hum a tune and then hear it played on an instrument you choose?
  • This might be an interesting extension to the BlueBird kind of system. You can put down a rhythm track and then add instruments playing different parts. This might be fun for lots of kids (and adults!).
  • A simpler game might ask for the child to sing the same note as the game played, or a third above it, etc.
  • I wonder if kids would enjoy learning some music theory in the right setting.
I think I see how to do a DDR -like game for kids who are blind! Check out BlindDDR

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Flight sim game ideas

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Flight simulator ideas with Shane and Matthew on 12 June 2006.

  • 2-D only for now
  • Forget cells, use coordinates instead, use a circular aperture for detection.
  • Beep sound works well for targets.
  • What sound for anti-aircraft station?
  • Probability of getting hit while over an anti-aircraft station?
  • Running out of fuel and/or bombs
  • Bomb sounds?
  • More points for hitting target than for hitting AAS .
  • Possible to hit multiple targets with same sound but perhaps one target at a time is easier
  • Have key to hear targets one at a time
  • Multiplayer version eventually
  • Announcements “you’ve been hit”, “you destoyed the base”, “you destroyed the AAS ”, “targets are too far away”
  • Warning announcement when near AAS and possibly continuous sound

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Switch Accessible Games

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I got to meet Jake and his mom. We believe some interesting switch assessible games would be a great motivator for him to learn to use his devices. Ideas we came up with include:

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Text Skimming

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Skimming in text for people who are blind or reading help for people with learning disabilities. Automatic summarization or maybe Cliff Notes merged with a book so that you can read at the summary level or down at the detailed level. How can students who are blind skim for answers to questions? Can this help people with learning disabilities? Sort of Tell what you’re going to tell them, tell them, and tell them what you told them .

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