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Gaming With a Headmouse?
seanbhoy writes "Do you have any information on games that can be played by myself? I am disabled from the neck down, and use a headmouse to access the Internet, etc. To get an idea of my disability, I have almost the same injuries that Christopher Reeve had. Can you point me in the direction of similar would-be gamers and computer users? Also do you have any information on games that may work with the headmouse I use?"
You might be disappointed by the quality of the suggestions you get to your question, since most Slashdotters are disabled from the neck up.
Yeah, seriously. Use VirtuNes or the like, and have the zapper set up thru the mouse. I work in a facility with people that have your situation. Using the same setup, I had some of the guys playing Operation Wolf and Lazer Invasion in no time. Good luck!
What is the perfered method of typing for someone with that disorder?
I'm assuming the postere typed their own question.
Note that this isn't an endorsement for either site - I don't know what kind of extra junk they install when you install their games, for example - but these type of games meant for the "casual gamer" usually work with minimal input, and the people who play them certainly seem to like them.
Do you have a way to click? If you can move your head relatively fast I would imagine that you'd be pretty good at any FPS since you pretty much aim by looking...
Isn't /. a game?
How precise are those btw? As you might have noticed many strategy (turn) based games don't require much speed and accuracy.
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I have no idea what a headmouse is or how it is used, but I'm guessing playing DDR with it on the highest setting will eventually make your head fall off...
Not to be rude, but doesn't a headmouse work just like a normal mouse?
And if so, wouldn't games like Civilization be good?
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You're going to need something that will work mostly with a keyboard, I take it...
and you're not going to want a first person shooter - too much need for quick reaction times.
A turn-based game would do the trick. Start off small and addictive with that evil NetHack (nethack.org) and in ten or twelve years time when you're done work on the Total War series - Medieval and Rome are both bonza games and not necessarily reliant on twitchy relfexes... but start off with Shogun (www.totalwar.com).
Best of luck. Enjoy.
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I don't know if this would work, but you may want to look at http://wilddivine.com/. It works on Bio feedback (no joystick), maybe they can help you out.
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I think Frozen Bubble could be modified to be playable with left-right panning and a click type movement. It may already be possible. My wife *loves* that game; it has tetris-like addictivity. The developer is a nice guy too...
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I had a bad reaction to a drug, causing my whole face to stretch in one direction. Not being in control of your body is not fun at all. As long as we have such little understanding of ourselves, stuff like that could happen.
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If you're looking for hardware this claims to be game compatible and there's an article here which touches on disabled gaming.
If software, really you're probably going to be looking at non twitch turn based stuff. As I don't know which genres you're into or what sort of PC you have, I can't really recommend anything.
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Not sure how helpful this will be, but it appears there's a community of folks with similar interests/needs centered around developer Glen Murphy's Freelook, at:
http://freelook.org/
It appears you can join the forum and post questions to a group which will probably have lots of good answers to your questions. By the way, the technology is pretty interesting: it appears to only require a cheap webcam and some sort of target, which can as simple a small white paper patch on the user's cap, or under poor lighting conditions, an LED or small light source.
There are hundreds of beautifully crafted text adventures these days, and Dasher is a text input system that addresses your exact condition. Basically, letters fly by and you "steer" the pointer to each letter's region. The genius here is that Dasher learns the things that you tend to input a lot, and makes those regions take up a large convenient part of the entry area, while pushing unusual sequences to the margins.
Over the past year, PDXLAN has had a few gamers show up to their event using a headmouse (or some form of a headmouse) and play many of the games played at that event.
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I've seen Counter-Strike work
You may try asking a question on their site forums. Chances are they'll have a good answer for you, or know how to contact the people that do use headmice.
Best of luck
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I wonder how well voice command gaming would work? See here for one example.
Meh.
BTW, Many similarly disabled people have rich sex lives. I hope you never have to experience catastrophic injury firsthand. Be thankful for what you have.
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You did not say what hardware/software you are using so I don't know if this is any use but if you're running Windows (and I assume that your hardware just emulates a standard mouse anyway), here's a few ideas.
Most RTS games can be played mouse only so you should be OK with anything Command-And-Conquer-esque. I'm not sure how quickly/accurately you can move a cursor but you can adjust the speed of most RTS games to suit. Turn-based strategy games would be good too, and you can play both types online.
There are loads of online games (cards/board games etc.) which you only need a mouse to play. If you have an onscreen keyboard you will be able to chat as well.
Most FPS games will likely be out of the question as you generally require a keyboard AND mouse to play. Having said that, the original Doom/Wolfenstein games can be played without a keyboard.
Also, try to find out if there's a disabled gamers group either online or near you. I would imagine there must be SOMEONE out there in a similar situation to you, so maybe they can be more helpful than me!
Good luck!
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Its a truly challenging game, and it can be played online for fun. A mouse is all thats needed, and the ability to pay close attention to what people do. :)
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Games like maniac mansion, day of the tentacle, escape from monkey island. They don't have any quick-reflex types of interaction with the game, but do require a mouse. They are very story oriented though, and the mouse is used in a "point on the word to complete the sentence" type of interface. An example is a classic, clicking on "use", then selecting the "hamster" icon, then selecting the microwave from the picture window.
Anyway, if you're already using a head mouse, that seems to be completely within the means of appropriate uses.
Another type of game that doesn't get a lot of attention these days are moos, or muds. Text-based massive multiplayer games are totally possible to play with a head mouse, especially with a lot of mud clients having lots of point-and-click scripting abilities, to lessen the need for typing even more.
There were some really good text-based games that can usually be found laying around these days. "Bureaucracy" and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" were incredibly entertaining for their day, and still are if you can suspend needing to see pretty graphics.
But ultimately, I have no experience with headmice at all. I'm just making these suggestions that it's not necessarily the limitation of being able to get to every button, but that its the limitation of getting to those buttons _quickly_ that is the problem here, for games. As such, some role-playing games might work, especially something like Final Fantasy Tactics, or similar games, that could be played through emulation on a non-console game system.
Astropop and Bejeweled 2 are the most worthwhile 40 bucks I have EVER spent on games (each is 20 dollars, but you can also get a free trial version or play online for free).
If you can press a single key (for pause) pretty reliably, neverwinter should work pretty well as it can be completely mouse controlled. But you will definately want to pause it a good bit if your response time/accuracy is limited. But this will depend on exactly your set up.
Similarly, if you like this style of rpgs I believe baldur's gate two should work well also, its turn based, and mouse controlled. I think you can also set it to autopause on turns.
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C'mon, with a username of "Eunuch" he sounds worse off than the first guy.
Your mind is a greater computer than we can ever create with our current technology. It is also capable of far higher planes of entertainment than we are used to.
Being restricted in your body movement does not restrict you from exploring the depths of your mind. You could try playing these "MindGames (TM)" by yourself. What I'm referring to is exploring "higher planes of consciousness", as Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, etc) call it, and "trips", as druggies (no offence intended) call it.
These elevated states of consciousness are achievable through meditation and trancendental techniques (lots of Google results when I looked) and to a certain extent (with obvious side effects) through psychotropic drugs. In my experience, these techniques really result in peace and tranquility, at the very least ..... and what's more, you don't need anything more than your mind to play them.
Just wanted to offer an out of the box suggestion which I thought might help....Good luck.
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Which brings up, of course, nethack--the only computer game that actually *matters*.
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I'd guess that you would want one of the graphical interfaces, but even the text version should be doable with just a little bit of help.
A text-based game with over twenty years of development behind it . .
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Here's a person so highly sympathetic to other people who are disabled that he doesn't fetishize our greater physical abilities above their lesser. In fact he is already so beyond the merely physical that, far from the traditional pity for the disabled, he admires their equality (and perhaps superiority) in the field that really interests him: the mind. While you are still so mired in pity or other fetishistic discrimination of the disabled that you attack him. Unfortunately, your disability discriminates against you in the world of the mind, where we are indeed all headed. Fortunately, your disability is easier to transcend, merely by opening your mind to people like the poster to whom you replied. Post again when you're feeling better.
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> How about Gaming with a Titmouse?
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Yeah, and 90% of the slashdot community.
If you like puzzles, board games, thinking stuff and all that, then check out Zillions of games which is a Windows engine that runs an enormous number of games and variants, all mouse and single-click driven with a pretty consistent interface.
Extra free games are added on a regular basis, and they've got a downloadable demo.
How quickly can you click with a headmouse, and is right clicking as easy as left clicking? Diablo 1 or Diablo 2 may be possibilities, assuming that fairly rapid clicking is not a problem. Diablo 1 has a bit of a slower pace, and with both games you can access just about everything, including the main menu and inventory, using only the mouse.
I would highly recommend some all-text adventure games. I have extremely fond memories of the Zork series, Planetfall and the like. They do not require fast reflexes but are still challenging, fun and addictive. Most of the common commands can be abbreviated to a single letter ("n" for "north", "i" for "inventory", "l" for "look" etc...) and I imagine that your user-interface is tuned for text anyway. Oh, and the games can be downloaded for free from infocom's site. And of course, full solutions abound on the net should you get stuck. Enjoy!
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Starcraft is PERFECT for your situation. Only requires a mouse, it will take a lot of getting used to, especially only using your head, but man, starcraft is THE RTS of ALL TIME! Any other rts would do you as well, but i have found, although this is just my undisabled findings, i can still play starcraft nearly 10 years after its been first released and still get the same rush from it. Its fun. Your disabled. You have a reason to play this game 24/7. Dont miss out on the opportunity of a LIFETIME.
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Let me just start out by saying, this is one of those posts that makes you step back and realize there's a niche that needs to be filled, that falls outside of one's own personal paradigm. I felt so dumb, not even knowing what a headmouse was.
With much thanks to the person who posted an example of a headmouse, from a tech perspective, I can think of it sort of like a touchpad or normal mouse (aka, movement of a cursor and possible right/left click). The website said it had a common USB interface... the machine must see it as a normal mouse.
Which brings me to my suggestion. One of my favorite games on the Amiga was some "walker" something or other... you actually had to control it with two controllers. One joystick controlled the walking machine, the other the cursor on the screen, a shooting type of targeter. What made this game so fun to play wasn't the fact that you needed two joysticks (and literally two hands) to play, but the fact that you could play it with someone else, simultaneously!
In other words, you controlled this StarWars 2 legged at-at thing, and one guy got to let it move and the other controlled it's gun/targeter/whatever.
Is the option to play with someone else available? It could be interesting! Play a FPS where you control the mouse and someone else controls the keyboard... a new level of gameplay, and the best part... you don't have to even modify exsisting games.
I'm not trying to be cruel or anything but I remember having a great time with that old Amiga "walker" game (if someone can remember the real name, I'd appreciate it). I actually remember having to use a D-pad style joystick in my left hand then a "stick" style joystick under my right leg, to control the game. It was actually easier (and more fun) to play with two people!
To sum up a long and boring post: just because most modern games are designed with one person, or two people "competing" doesn't mean you can't have a good time using the game in a non-traditional cooperative mode. I've always personally enjoyed cooperative games more than competitive. (But that's just me.)
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I'm assuming heavily mouse-based titles will be your games of choice, and probably not twitch-based ones. Therefore, most online multiplayer games (unless they're turn-based) will be right out.
That being said:
Activision's Total War series
Any game of the Civilization series
If someone codes a set of keypresses for you, games on emulated systems (Final Fantasy titles on NES/SNES/PSX for instance, or turn-based games on a GBA emulator like Advance Wars) would likely be doable.
Some of the older MAME titles - not fighting titles like Soul Calibur, but scrollers like R-Type - could be mapped to your headmouse incredibly easily.
You might be able to convince someone to code you a custom interface to use EQ, WoW, or FFXI if you're interested in them; most of the hotkeys are fairly straightforward and could be bound to a wheel-type mouse interface pretty easily.
Steer clear of FPS play, as you'd need (at least) fingers capable of WASD to do them.
If all else fails, there's always games like Go, Chess, and the like to be played out on Yahoo Games or elsewhere. Yeah, they're somewhat old school, but it's always possible to find a game.
Oh, and I did mention a lot of "someone would have to code up the interface", but for most of them it's just remapping joystick axes/hotkeys to certain mouse movements.
Happy gaming!
I use a headmouse sometimes to reduce hand-strain. (I can't even use a mouse with my main writing hand anymore, because of the unbearable pain.) My headmouse is one of the Naturalpoint models (http://www.naturalpoint.com/). Their TrackIR product is designed with gamers in mind. They list a number of games that work well with the headmouse on their website. Also, they have forums (http://forums.naturalpoint.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb .cgi) where you can find a lot of discussion of headmouse gaming.
I find that some games work better than others. I like using it for strategy games, for example. It's not so good for games like Star Wars Galaxies, where you have to push the mouse left and *leave* it there, to turn left. With a headmouse, this results in you tipping further and further left, until you can't go any further (or turning your avatar back right, if you want to straighten your head back up). D'oh! With pretty much all games, you will probably have to recenter it frequently, regardless of how well they get along with the headmouse.
Another thing that complements a headmouse is the wonderful Shoot program (http://clans.gameclubcentral.com/shoot/). It's a free voice recognition program intended for use with games. Because it's intended for use with a very small vocabulary, the performance is vastly superior to what you'd get from Dragon, and the overhead is much smaller, to boot. It's designed so you can assemble different profiles for all of your favorite games, and it works surprisingly well.
The last thing I recommend is to keep an eye on the Game Accessibility SIG (http://www.igda.org/accessibility/) of the IGDA. They're dedicated to spreading awareness of accessibility needs in mainstream games and sharing methods for making accessibility easy.
Good luck!
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Switch Gaming: They sell hardware and have game reviews for PC, console, and emulated classics. Sounds like just what you're looking for.
otherwise, maybe some of the text based adventure games, or even something like the old Trade Wars on Telnet, or webified versions.
These are meant to be safe suggestions, as I imagine that things that require fancy key combos and timing might be frustrating
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Trade Wars was/is an excellent strategy type game. (old style graphics, tho)
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It's a matter of care. A dyslexic bloke I know generates very coherent documentation, emails etc - especially when compared to his peers. Why? He *knows* he has limitations and checks everything he writes three times. His peers just bang out their emails etc and hit "send" with no editing/spell checking etc, because they are not aware of their imperfections.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Look into Jagged Alliance 2 also, another turn based combat game. I don't think you need to really use the keyboard for anything except entering the initial activation code for your IMP merc, and that game is loads of fun.
The Fallout and Jagged Alliance 2 combat engines would be well suited because they are totally turn based by nature. However, by setting auto-pause on the BG/IWD games you can get the same effect. I suppose I should mention Fallout Tactics also which can be played in turn based mode just like Fallout1&2.
You could probably also play Neverwinter Nights just with a mouse, although playing online is 90% of the fun, and it would be hard to type/chat with other players with just a mouse. If you could manage to let them know its hard for you to type you could probably get in with some adventurers who would work with you.
I'm not even mentioning trivial games like card games, etc, because I tend to like action oriented games with guns, lasers, magic, etc, but I play a lot of turn based strategy games (most of them listed above) because I like the somewhat slower pace and how they give you time to think before each move.
My wife suggests a bunch of Flash games like on shockwave.com or gameblast.com. and from the amount of time she spends playing them I suppose that is the other side of the gaming coin. You'd have to be pretty good with your mouse to play some of these, because they are click fests, but OTOH the only controls are the mouse.
Other turn based games are Civilization, Heroes of Might and Magic, Alpha Centauri, X-Com UFO Defense. Some of the older ones like X-Com run great using DOSBox and its not too hard to set up a shortcut or something to get them started.
I'd recommend setting up a way to at least invoke the [Esc] key with your head mouse so if you get stuck in a text entry box you can try and exit from it. I'm not sure what their capabilities are, but you need a couple keystrokes mapped like for Quicksave/Quickload, Enter, Esc, stuff like that.
Good luck and happy gaming!
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Agreed. If you can manipulate a web browser with your headmouse, you can play WoW...albeit slowly, but the game's an absolute blast. You're welcome in my guild if you'd like to join. I'll send you an email with further information.
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Obviously puzzles are often mouse-only and do not require fast reaction times. I guess there are plenty of Myst-type games; I dont remember very well, but aren't most the old LucasArt games (Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Sam and Max, Grim Fandango) mouse-only?
For starters, maybe you could try the online classics at FASCO-CS: Crimson Room and Viridian Room. Maybe you could manage puzzles like Hapland too.
I've been skimming this thread and I didn't see many replies from other users with disabilities. I also use a type of headmouse because of a neuromuscular disability. I've had this type of setup since I was 16 (I'm 31 now and work as an attorney). I've always been a gamer and I tend to gravitate towards games that don't require twitch reflexes. I'm a big RPG fan and most of these are mouse-driven. Check out some of the classics like Baldur's Gate or Planescape. Planescape is especially brilliant. A more recent game I really enjoyed was Freedom Force, a rpg/strategy game that is also mouse-driven. Does your headmouse allow you to hook up separate switches for the left and right mouse buttons? These switches work really well if you have limited movement.
/. and the quality of the responses tends to run the gamut from troll to somewhat helpful. I hope other users with disabilities will see this and offer more ideas.
If you do play games that require a few keyboard commands, check out Game Commander. It allows you to program voice commands for games. It has a pretty customizable interface and you can even program macros.
If you have an on-screen keyboard, you can always go old-skool with text adventures from Infocom.
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Here's the strategy I would suggest:
Hit the sale rack at your software store of choice and and try out a few games of different genres. That way you won't waste a bunch of money on games you don't like, and you can nail down a genre that works well for you. Everyone here has been saying "forget FPS", but seriously- if you think you might like that kind of game, go pick one up off the sale rack for $5 and try it out. If it doesn't work for you, you've only lost $5, and that's assuming that you can't recycle it into a stocking stuffer for a friend down the road.
The main thing is that if you're trying to pick a genre, try some cheap ones before you go drop $50+ on the latest and greatest.
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It does seem rather powerful, especially if it can be combined with voice recognition. Although voice recognition isn't perfect it could certainly be good enough to mimic the button pushes we make when playing a game.
It probably won't be as fast though. So you probably want a game that isn't twitch based. Lets review the categories.
1) MMORPG. Although this isn't twitch based I'm reluctant to recommend it. I don't mean to be insensitive, but I believe that you will meet a lot of insensitive impatient people who will only hurt your self esteem. I don't know the average age of an MMORPG player. All I know is that many act like 12 year olds. Maybe if you find trade skilling rewarding. You could be a very good trade skiller, I'm sure. In fact, if you enjoy trade skilling then you can build your character to the highest levels and people want to do business with you. This category is different than the two below, because there is social interatction here. And if you want more of that, then this might be your choice.
2) Turn based strategy. Civilisation... Oh the memories... I'd really have to recommend this genre. This is one of my all time game genres. And you can play it at any speed you like. You invest a lot of time in the strategy and you can ask a unit to do something which will take many turns. This means that later in the game it will do tons of stuff, that is really interesting to you, the player, but you won't actually be doing much pointing and clicking. Whatever else games you play, you should try to do this too. It is just too much fun to not do. To round it up, whether you win this or not _only_ depends on your thinking. Nothing else. You will be as good a player as a non handicapped person. It might take longer. But what the hey.
3) Real time strategy. This is another one of my favorite genres. Although this really can be as much twitching as a first person shooter, you can normally set the speed to anything you like. You might find that this really gets your adrenalin pump going. I know it does for me.
4) First person shooters. This might not work when you play with a random person from the Internet. But you could get a group going with the same type of problem as you. All that matters is that everyone is about similarly fast. This could be a lot of fun, _and_ it could also be super rewarding if you can organize and build a community and make friends. I currently play an MMORPG right now, and the part that is the most rewarding for me is to organize events and try to help people have fun. The game itself is secondary. You might want to look at games such as Ghost Recon which is more "suspense" and "one shot one kill" rather than the Quake "circle/strafe" "rocket jump" game play.
5) Someone else mentioned Myst. Myst and other puzzle games might be good for you. It isn't for me, but many like it. Maybe you are one of them.
And finally, good luck finding the game that is for you. I love it when I have a new game.
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Try it. The game is very, very challenging, way beyond chess in it's complexity. It should be possible to play with a headmouse too with long enough time settings. Basically it's a game of territory where both players, black and white, place stones in the crossings of a 19x19 grid. For more information:
An interactive tutorial
Kiseido Go Server - An Internet go server with an easy to use GUI and lot's of helpful people online.
Sensei's libarary - A good resource site in form of a wiki.
Goproblems.com - A Nice selection of Life & Death problems.
Gobase.org - Rumblings in the go world.
Absolutely unbelievable game series, mouse-driven
Got a friend in a similar situation.
1 )0 ) [BTW check out FreeCiv and Wesnoth! TWO GOOD STRATEGY GAMES YOU CAN PLAY WITH JUST A MOUSE! Wesnoth has a great story line! Well developed game! Online gameplay!]0 )1 ) [This one is a platformer, but if you get the hang of your headmouse you can play this without a prob! My friend does :-] )
Here are some games
* LOTS of RPGs - (good ones that are involving http://www.agdinteractive.com/)
* Chess, shogi, other board games
* card games
* Plenty of net games available (like bejeweled)
* some arcade plane fighting games like galactica, Raiden I & II & II, starfox
* puzzle games like boulderdash, rockford
Also recommend installing software that allows you to "turbo-fire" your mouse. That way you can play games where you have click very fast! On top of that we installed stuff like sticky mouse buttons.
He can play old school games like DOOM and DOOM II, Wolf3D. Forward, backward, left, right, strafe button, fire, swap weapon. That's all he uses. You can do this with some new FPS (but your game play will be pretty limited)
We also installed a media player for him! Keeps him entertained.
Check out www.liberatedgames.com. They have a fair few commerical games which have been released to the public for free.
My favourites on that site which I think you will like include
Flight of the Amazon Queen (http://www.liberatedgames.com/game.php?game_id=3
Civ 2 (http://www.liberatedgames.com/game.php?game_id=5
Beneath a Steel Sky (http://www.liberatedgames.com/game.php?game_id=3
Treasure Island Dizzy (http://www.liberatedgames.com/game.php?game_id=8
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Chess is fine, but Go is a game with a lot more options. If you don't play internet go, you should start, I consider it the best of the traditional/non-twitch games.
I agree.At least I got the stones to post on my sig and let the bad karma fall where it may.In answer to the disabled gentleman,I hated when I was stuck in a wheelchair after a bike wreck and think you are an inspiration to have overcome your limitations the way you have.As far as games go,I have played many flash games that worked well mouse only and perhaps if the smart guys here would stop being jerks for a minute maybe one could offer to alter a gameboy emu as there were a bunch of great games on that system and with it only needing two action buttons it would probably be easy to switch over to mouse only.
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I found this website with games for handicapped or disabled.
http://www.arcess.com/
They have some games available to test before buying.
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/cat_
^^ I found it through this url (There are plenty more games here)
Also you might find this url of use
http://www.disabilities-online.com/
and
http://e-bility.com/links/games.php
Hope you can use these and
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Oh, I searched google for "computer games for people with disabilities"
http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&q=computer+game
(So you can sift through the thousands of links, but still. Keep asking
I like Magic The Gathering Online. It's an online multiplayer version of the Magic The Gathering card game. This is a strategic card game that is alot of fun to play. The interface to the game is very simple, and you wouldn't need a keyboard to play it *at all*, all you need to be able to do is point and click, and right-click, and possibly click-and-drag. However without the ability to type you wouldn't be able to say "good luck" and "good game" to your opponenets, which wouldn't interfere with your gameplay but other players who don't know your circumstances may unfortunately come to the conclusion that you are an unfriendly person. If you do have the ability to type just a little bit, even if slowly, that would help immensely with the social aspect of the game.
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It's not a traditional "video game" in the sense that it's not an action-based game, but you get to play against real people, meaning that the challenge level is always pretty high, and it really can be a very fun game to play. And like I mentioned there can be social aspects to it as well which are nice. I've met some nice people from all over the world on there.
I would recommend starting out with "league" play, which is a relatively cheap way to learn how to play and to get alot of playing time on a pretty even playing field.
Oh yeah there is a free preview available too, which allows you to play only with a limited set of card decks against other people who are playing the preview, but it will help you to know whether or not you can handle the interface to the game, and whether or not you enjoy it.
You can download MTGOL at:
http://mtgoinstall.wizards.com/installers/mtgod
A lot of RPGs are real-time, which I think would probably make them pretty tough, but not all are.
My all-time second favorite RPG, Fallout, by default goes into turns when you enter combat. Other times it's real-time, but I don't think that should be a problem. It's also heavily mouse-based (and maybe can be played using only the mouse--it's been a while so I don't remember). Its successor, Fallout 2, is also a very worthy game and uses the same interface.
My #1 all-time favorite RPG is Planescape: Torment. The NPC interaction and storyline are better than anything else I've seen before or since. I think it's always real-time, but pausable at will with the space bar.
OK... After having read WAY down in this thread with the intent of moderating it, wading through all the trolls and offtopics and irrelevants, I gave up. I'll mod somewhere else... This thread desperately needs some guidance and relevance that a few +/- 1's aren't going to provide.
I'm sorry that the technology necessary to enjoy PC games isn't quite there yet for the disabled, and I cannot personally say I know of any games particularly suited or designed for a headmouse. I'm pretty good at video games, but I damn sure need every finger and movement I can get... Some games require so many potential movements on so many different axis or inputs... My keyboard is barely enough! I hate it, but I would recommend looking into some legacy games (if you haven't played it, even though the graphics aren't new hotness, it doesn't necessarily suck just b/c it's old) like King's Quest/Space Quest or perhaps the original Final Fantasy (I played it again for the 4th or 5th time last year), or perhaps a turn-based strategy game of some kind where reaction time isn't so important? Vis-a-vis Master of Orion, Civilization, etc? I admit to not knowing much about headmice beyond the basics (i.e., i don't know how configurable they are or what range of input the average user has available), but I'm sure there must be something.
Also, you people keep mentioning the implants while completely forgetting to bring up the neural/aural (read: EKG) helmet that was effectively tested at about the same time with a nearly identical set of results as the implants. The EKG can sense the same brainwave pattern shifts that were used to control the cursor via implant. Maybe the same level of precision won't be available as via true implant (at first, or perhaps maybe never) due to bandwidth limitations (imagine trying to connect your fiber-line by leaving an unterminated end pointing at a microscope lens a few feet away... The fundamental limitations of wireless as opposed to wired.) But one day in what I believe will be the not-too-distant future, the interfaces will be there, wired or not, for you to be able to enjoy your computing experience as much as I do. It may even happen that one day, children born with crippling disabilities may even be better off in the virtual world than the rest of us b/c their brain (if they receive such implants for either input or total immersion) will not worry so much about developing neural pathways for physical activities, but for more mental ones.
I hope the steady march of technology does right for you soon; I've been certain this technology was coming within my lifetime, and since the release of the new researech I'm even more certain it will be in the next 10 - 15 years, and hopefully the surgerical techniques to help you will be here even sooner.
Can _ANYBODY_ say something relevant and list a few ideas for games compatible with a headmouse?
"Inveniemus Viam Aut Faciemus" 'We will find a way... Or we will make one!' --Hannibal of Carthage
Plus, their list of supported games is a fantastic guide to all of the sweet point-and-click adventure games that you never heard of. There were probably twice as many that I *hadn't* played, and I was pretty hooked on those games as a kid. :)