Students develop racing game for the blind
Published: 12 Nov 2002 14:20 GMT
Three MA students studying music technology at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands have today released Drive -- a racing game intended for blind children aged 10-14.
The game, which has been developed by Sander Hiuberts, Richard van Tol, and Hugo Verweij in cooperation with the Bartiméus Institute for the blind, is entirely sound-based and challenges players to test the maximum speed of an experimental vehicle named the shuttle.
The shuttle in the game moves along a fixed track, and players -- aided by audio cues from co-pilot Bob -- have to pick up and activate boosters to reach the highest speeds possible within a time limit. At the end of the game, players are awarded a score based on their performance which -- if it's high enough -- can be entered on the high scores table on the official Drive site.
Two versions of Drive are now available to download from the SoundSupport Web site, there's an MP3-quality version that weighs in at 38MB, plus a superior CD-quality version that weighs around 115MB. A Dutch language version of the game called Sneller is also available.
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