Who plays Levelgames?

Children with Special Needs
Kids just want to have fun, and arcade games really are fun. Levelgames are used in:

• pre school years when physical access to toys is not possible
• schools for recreation time
• therapy as a fun way to learn and improve skills
• community recreation centers
• recreation in hospital settings
• and of course at home
  

Adults with disabilities
The fun doesn't stop just because you are an adult. Arcade games are enjoyed just as much by adults as they are by children.

Elderly
Arcade games are suitable for any age, but if reaction times or vision have reduced with age then traditional arcade games may have become impossible to play. It doesn't need to be this way. Access games feature high contrast with large clear characters, yet without the "children's themes that would make them inappropriate in this environment. The speed and difficulty of the games can be adjusted through a very wide range to ensure almost anyone can play.

Easy or difficult?  - the choice is yours with the popular LEVELGAMES.

Traditional computer games assume both players have similar physical abilities and reaction times, but the flexible Levelgames allow players with different abilities to play - each with a fair chance of winning.

Choose your  access method:

• single switch
• expanded keyboard (eg. Intellikeys)
• keyboard
• joystick
• mouse
• trackball
• touchscreen

Levelgames has been selling accessible Arcade Games through the Internet since 1997. The focus of the games has been to overcome the physical barrers to playing Arcade Games.

This is achieved by:

• providing panels which give the user very wide control over the major game elements - speed, power etc.
   
• supporting a wide range of access methods.
  
• Including high contrast graphics and  large characters.

eg. A player who is having difficulty with the speed of the game can slow the alien rate of descent, increase firepower, or adjust any of the 10 parameters. Changes can even be made while the game is being played. If two players are playing against each other, then each player can have his/her own settings. This allows two players of quite different abilities to play successfully

Arcade Games are played by people of all ages.

Alien Invasion - The Levelgames control panel allows players to adjust the speed and strength of the major game elements - player speed, player fire strength, alien speed, alien fire rate and alien descent rate. The Firepower is fully adjustable from a 1- 8 missile spread. Large character sizes are also available for low vision players.

Because Alien Invasion is so flexible, the game can be played at any level from a "Cause and Effect" game (press the switch and watch and listen to the fireworks) through to a full "Invaders" style of game. This flexibility is particularly important when games are being played by a group of players with a wide spread of abilities.

Supports keyboard, joystick, expanded keyboard, alternative access, switch and can even be played by some speech recognition programs.

Brickout: A new "Bat and Bricks" game with incredible flexibility. Choose the bat size (from small through to very very large), bat speed and the ball speed. Brickout now includes a "Level Editor"  for designing your own levels.

Supports keyboard, joystick, expanded keyboard, alternative access, switch and can even be played by some speech recognition programs.

Ruby Ridge - A challenging platform game almost anyone can play. Move your skate-boarding character across platforms, up ladders, and down slides, collecting Gems along the way.  Using the Level Editor you can create Game Screens as simple as a single row of bricks or as complex as the multi level platform system shown above.

Supports keyboard, joystick, expanded keyboard, alternative access (eg. Intellikeys), switch (scanning) and can even be played by some speech recognition programs. 

Be sure to check out RJ Cooper's 3D game WHEELS - (Power wheelchair simulation training software and more!) Wheels is a fully immersive 3D action game, designed specifically for joystick and other alternative input devices.  It is very forgiving, has incremental levels, fun monsters, great sound effects and music, and important feedback for power wheelchair training. Works with: SAM-Joystick or SAM-Trackball, keyboard, mouse, IntelliKeys, Tracker.

Computer Games can be Accessible!

While under development, computer games are often much more accessible. Game designers use special controls that allow the parameters of the game to be adjusted through a very wide range. But this flexibility is hidden, or even completely removed, before the games are released to the public. Essentially the games are  "disabled" or "handicapped" to ensure players with disabilities are unable to play. More...

While mass market computer games can be more accessible there will still be a need for games that provide more extensive adaptive access. Games designed with adaptive technology in mind. These are Levelgames.

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