Brian Conklin, Author at AbleGamers

AbleGamers Teams Up With Mountain Dew For A Day Of Streaming, Fundraising, and Apex Legends

AbleGamers teamed up with Mountain Dew to host a day of streaming Apex Legends featuring star streamers of the Apex Legends community as well as surprise sports streamers, raising over $64,000 for AbleGamers. The streamers were featured on their own…

AbleGamer’s Twitch Channel: For Disabled Gamers, By Disabled Gamers

Always striving to discover new ways to push game accessibility forward, AbleGamers accepted a fundraiser looking to do something different for charities. The fundraiser involved three people playing video games live on the internet for an extended period of time.…

What AbleGamers Has Been Up To For May 2019

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BMmzHIXjOA[/embedyt] AbleGamers has had another busy month! Besides the wonderful work with developers all across the industry to help push accessibility, all of the grants sent out to get people into gaming, we’ve also made a few…

What Has AbleGamers Been Up To?

A look inside AbleGamers: April 2019 This month, AbleGamers has been very busy sharing information about game accessibility all across the games industry! With speaking engagements at GAConf, GDC, and PAX East, the AbleGamers staff crossed the United States and…

What Have We Been Up To? March 2019

What has AbleGamers been up to since February? A whole lot of basketball, that’s what! This month, on March 3rd, new ground was broken with a new first for AbleGamers. The Cleveland Cavaliers and AbleGamers partnered for a special fundraiser…

AbleGamers Launches Accessible.Games Website to Connect Disabled Gamers and Developers

In the process of pushing accessibility practices further, AbleGamers began a new program to bring people with disabilities and game developers closer than ever before. AbleGamers revealed their new site Accessible.Games to give developers multiple resources for creating more accessible…

AbleGamers Attends Ohio Business of Games Summit in Athens, Ohio

On September 14th, 2017, AbleGamers attended the first Ohio Business of Games Summit, held at Ohio University in Athens Ohio. This event was hosted by the Ohio University Gaming Research and Immersive Design Lab alongside the Ohio University Center for…

A Train, a Jam, And GDC: AbleGamer’s Fellow Tells Their Adventure

“We’d like to help you take a train up to GDC while making a game.” I’ve done plenty of game jams before, but on a train? I’ve never been on a train before and had many questions regarding taking a…

Finding Serenity in Hidden Folks

When the world feels overwhelming, it’s difficult to get back on course. It may be outside influences from the world starting to affect daily life, or maybe it’s just a personally busy time with work and family and all sorts…