AccessAble Games, the Videogames Accessibility Company

Slalom, The Videogame

The Game

Slalom, The Videogame, is the simulator of a sport named "Wheelchair Slalom", practiced by people with cerebral palsy. The aim of this game is to provide an insight to the rules, types of tests and circuits to people who wants to practice this sport. Or even providing a system to improve their times practicing new movement strategies.

This game doesn't pretend to be a substitute of the real exercise, but simply a help to improve and know more about this sport without the need of space, time and qualified personnel that the real exercise requires.

Slalom, The Videogame, is a project from the Ministerio de Sanidad, Política Social e Igualdad and the Centro de Referencia Estatal Discapacidad y Dependencia from León; developed by The Game Kitchen together with AccessAble Games.

 

 

 

Content

The game recreates the sport in a 3D environment and includes the following features: Profile Management: Character selection. Wheelchair type (electric or manual). Slalom division. Timing event: Fixed course. Variable course, 27 variants. Qualifying event: Against CPU. Against another player on the same PC. Tutorials: Timing event tutorial. Qualifying event tutorial. Obstacle tutorials, 9 tutorials explaining each event obstacles.

 

Accessibility

In accessiblity, game focuses on people with cerebral palsy but also has other options for other groups. The most important accessibility features are:

• Game speed setting.
• Joystick or keyboard control mode.
• Mouse control mode (for eye tracking and trackballs too).
• One button control mode.
• Control sensitivity settings.
• Help lines to guide between obstacles.
• Music and sound volume settings.
• Closed captions.
• Brightness and contrast settings.
• Two languages​​: Spanish and English.

 

 

Videos

Features

Accessibility

A real sport

Development progress

 

Play the game

You can download the game for free here: Slalom, The Videogame.