BlindStation
About
The BlindStation is an open source game platform designed for visually impaired children. It can be used through many adapted devices like a tactile board, a Braille display, a joystick, a surround sound system or even a screen and keyboard...
Description
The TiM project intended to develop and to adapt computer games for visually impaired children.
A game platform, the BlindStation, was developed to adapt existing content or create some new games. It provides a set of Python functions to describe those games in an abstract way, independent from their representation.
The platform can then render the game in a multi-modal way using the screen, keyboard, mouse and joystick, but also using some specific devices like a Braille terminal, 3D sound, a tactile board or a speech synthesizer. The rendering is done according to an XML style sheet which describes the available resources.
It can be customized depending on the available devices but also on the user's choices and disabilities. Several games have already been developed in different types (action, adventure, exploration...) and are currently tested in schools specialized in visually impaired children.
Download
- Source code
- blindstation-1.0.7.tar.gz
- Runtime
- blindstation-1.0.7-runtime.zip | blindstation-1.0.7-runtime.tar.bz2
Links
You can contact the author of BlindStation at this address: Sébastien Sablé <sable@users.sourceforge.net>.
BlindStation uses some external libraries to achieve some specific tasks:
- Braille display support is ensured by Libbraille
SDL a portable
graphical library used for screen rendering and keyboard
interaction
OpenAL the Open Audio
Library used for surround sound output
Python an interpreted,
interactive, object-oriented programming language used for
game scripts