geeksandlies
8th February 2011, 12:47 PM
Ok so the plight...
Some of you not all that familiar with the latest and greatest games wont know that control mapping is a big bug bear for most gamers!
Most games used to include the facility to map the controls to different keys on the keyboard and buttons on the mouse. Sadly with the uptake of console gaming most games are now created for consoles and then ported back for the PC (it used to be the other way round!) consequently you are pretty much tied to the games default layout, some keys can be changed a little but, for example, there isnt a way to map "Run" to a mouse button, only a keyboard one! This is annoying enough as it is for me being fully able bodied!
There are many disabled gamers out there, many of them are very good! There is a gamer called Garethone his youtube channel is here Garethone (http://www.youtube.com/user/gareth150) he is better at Dirt than me and i can use my hands! However he and many other disabled gamers are fed up with not being able to use the specially adapted hardware they have for gaming. Gareth has cerebral palsy and as he cannot use his arms he uses a specially adapted mouse operated by his chin for gaming, and he is good, very good!
The problem is he cannot map certain functions within the game to work with his specially adapted kit, less than ideal! A fellow disabled game called Chuck Bittner created petition online here (http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?cu5t0m) to raise the issue with Games Developers to try and get them to take stock and listen, so please take 30 second to sign it, its for a good cause i think we would all agree!
Chucks blurb can be found here (http://www.petitiononline.com/cu5t0m/petition.html)
Some of you not all that familiar with the latest and greatest games wont know that control mapping is a big bug bear for most gamers!
Most games used to include the facility to map the controls to different keys on the keyboard and buttons on the mouse. Sadly with the uptake of console gaming most games are now created for consoles and then ported back for the PC (it used to be the other way round!) consequently you are pretty much tied to the games default layout, some keys can be changed a little but, for example, there isnt a way to map "Run" to a mouse button, only a keyboard one! This is annoying enough as it is for me being fully able bodied!
There are many disabled gamers out there, many of them are very good! There is a gamer called Garethone his youtube channel is here Garethone (http://www.youtube.com/user/gareth150) he is better at Dirt than me and i can use my hands! However he and many other disabled gamers are fed up with not being able to use the specially adapted hardware they have for gaming. Gareth has cerebral palsy and as he cannot use his arms he uses a specially adapted mouse operated by his chin for gaming, and he is good, very good!
The problem is he cannot map certain functions within the game to work with his specially adapted kit, less than ideal! A fellow disabled game called Chuck Bittner created petition online here (http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?cu5t0m) to raise the issue with Games Developers to try and get them to take stock and listen, so please take 30 second to sign it, its for a good cause i think we would all agree!
Chucks blurb can be found here (http://www.petitiononline.com/cu5t0m/petition.html)