Games Are More Visually Accessible Than Ever. It's Just the Beginning

For Elliot Dodsworth, a game designer and developer, his inspiration to get into accessible video game design was his blind father. "My father has always been interested in what I make," Dodsworth tells WIRED, "but has never been able to experience it for himself." Driven by conversations with his father and other visually impaired players, Dodsworth created Fortune is Blind as part of his final major project at Falmouth University's Indie Game Development Masters program. The UK Games Fund described his mobile game as a "fully accessible binaural AR [augmented reality] action-adventure" which uses haptic and auditory feedback to provide accessibility for visually impaired players. "I have always wanted to make a game my father can play," Dodsworth says.