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BLINDGAMES

Fun and educational game accessible to blind kids, teaching basic typing skills with slow progression and increasing difficulty. Supports C#, Direct Sound, and Text-to-Speech.

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BLINDGAMES

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  1. BLINDGAMES Development Team: Mirza Nagji Tony Penta Jessica Whitley Ryan Hillman Ian Quattlebaum Quentin Dubois Jack Enloe Client: Gary Bishop

  2. Purpose • Game for kids that are Blind • Fun and/or Educational • Audio and Video

  3. What is our Project • Typing Tutor • Accessible to sighted and blind • Teaches basic typing skills • Slow Progression through keys • Increasing difficulty • From letters up to words

  4. The Plan We divided the team into three groups to maximize efficiency… • develop a conceptual framework for how the game works • takes care of all major and minor details of the game. • will design the user interface • takes care of initial problems blind students may have with starting the game. • will deal with actual development of the game. • this includes sounds, timing, etc.

  5. How Are we Doing this? • C# • Direct Sound Support • Web-deliverable • Audio clues • Text-to-Speech • Recorded Wav files • Instructions read out loud • Keyboard Interaction

  6. The Real Reasons • All Kids tested on typing skills • Chance to reach out and help • Have fun and be creative • Inexpensive alternative

  7. The Other Options • Currently available tutor • - Cheap, but not accessible • Talking tutors • - EXPENSIVE • Hardware Solutions • Expensive and not • effective

  8. Problems • Slow going at First • Getting to know everyone • Unsure about task at hand • Unfamiliar with C# • Sound • VS.Net • What am I doing? ?

  9. Solutions • Constructive group meeting • Needed to meet deadlines • Group Programming • Research • Got books • Talked to those familiar with C# • Delegation • Sense of Responsibility !

  10. Tactics • Everyone did their part • Separation of tasks • Getting a working model • Groups Coding Sessions • Individual updates

  11. The Demo • On internet • Download as one package • Installer • Sit back, Relax, Listen!

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