Tabletop gaming has transcended cultural boundaries for five thousand years. Yet, despite unprecedented innovation in design over the last decade, games available for people with limited vision remain restricted to expensive versions of traditional games like Chess. As visually impaired people report high levels of isolation, it is vital that this inherently social activity finally becomes accessible to all.
Metagame enables visually impaired people to play complex modern games through phone based image recognition and audio tagging, and creates wider awareness of inclusive gaming by crowdsourcing the creation of tags to sighted players and designers, bringing the entire community together.
This blog is intended to provide an opportunity for reflection on and promotion of my work on Digital Interaction Design here at DJCAD, University of Dundee, Scotland.
