Richard Moss

"Show us that it's being adopted in the industry, and we'll put it in.”

With ever-more developers pushing to make their games accessible, we asked Spohn and Hamilton to help assemble a list of seven games that exemplify different accessibility best practices. Here are their choices:

When they were kids

It all started with a Macintosh ad: 'You too can be a knowledge worker.' This is the story of Brian Thomas' 15-year odyssey at the helm of one of the strangest pieces of multimedia software ever created — If Monks Had Macs.

You know the violence, but there were text-adventures, skiing, space, and ants(!) too.

One of the minds behind the Oddworld universe shares his storytelling philosophies and inspirations as he works on the Abe's Exoddus reimagining Soulstorm.

The never-ending chase after Nintendo

Just below the peak of Mount Chiliad, a huge mountain in the far north of San Andreas, a mysterious mural sits high atop a cliff face. It looks like a map of the mountain's interior—a network of tunnels that connect five small chambers and three large ones with what appear to be a UFO, an egg, and a jetpack within them. Whether it's actually ...

An educational system helped pioneer sports games, in-game chat, and simultaneous play.

Why? Nostalgia, specific software or hardware, creativity through limitation.

Doom, Halo, Goldeneye, Half-Life, Call of Duty... you may recognize a few of these.

It may be two Grand Theft Auto generations and 11 years old, but GTA: San Andreas is still very much alive. Its two most popular online multiplayer mods currently have a million or more active players between them — one, Multi Theft Auto, had 616,000 players in July (up from just 33k in February 2010), while the other, SA-MP, oscillates between about 15,000 and 50,000 concurrent players. I went to talk to members of both mod communities to find out what keeps them playing.

Truck driving games like American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 are popular because they offer a routine, almost meditatively romantic simplicity — there’s no lengthy checklist of deadlines to meet and stakeholders to please, no paperwork, no family to feed....

Lego-like phenomenon has birthed a cottage industry of professional builders, but it's under threat