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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aleks Krotoski

One-switch retro gaming

As some of you may know, I did some research last year on the gaming experiences of people with severe mobility limitations. In my initial search for participants and ideas, I came across Barrie Ellis' great resource OneSwitch.org.uk, a portal for games that can be controlled with only one switch.

He emailed me to let me know about a competition Retro Remakes is running, calling for one-switch original titles and retro remakes. All of the playable entries are downloadable on Barry's site, but there's still time to put your programming skills to the test. The competition is live, active and comes with rewards a'plenty. Check out the forum for details and examples of submissions. Here's the first one that's online (requires Shockwave).

As the competition page says,

If we just get 5 more one switch games out there, then we've done a good job and we'll be happy. If we get 10, we'll be over the moon - if we get more, we'll be highly enchuffed beyond reasoning. So, why not drop into our forum and show us what you can do and help out a good cause into the bargain.


The competition runs until 11 May 2005.
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