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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Apr 03, 2017
Games Pose Unique Accessibility Challenges
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This is probably the best advice, from Joshua Straub,
editor-in-chief of DAGERS http://dagersystem.com/"
target="_blank, a game journalism site for disabled gamer:
"Not every game can be or has to be accessible to every
single person,” but he encouraged developers to make
sure that “when you choose to put a barrier in front
of any player, you know why you are doing it."
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Nothing will change until you start building.
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I was at an IMS meeting ages ago and someone said to me,
"Quality ships." I've never let that statement go. It
doesn't matter how great your ideas are, if you don't make
something out of them, they may as well not exist. "Start
by building. Pick one project and do whatever you have to
do to ship it. If you want to write a book, start with
writing a page a day. If you want to build an app, start
with some sketches. Anyone can do it. This advice applies
to all creators. Once you start building and launching your
projects, you won’t be able to stop. Building will
become part of your identity. And even if your project
fails, you’ll keep at it." As I said more recently in
one of our own meetings: "there's always a reason not to do
something." You can always come up with something. But you
put that aside, and you ship.
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Jerks and the Start-Ups They Ruin
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I have long said that venture capitalists don't fund ideas,
they fund people like themselves. Surely the latest round
of business failures proves this. "Bro C.E.O.s are better
at raising money than making money. So why do venture
capitalists keep investing in them? It may be because many
of the venture capitalists are bros as well." The is one of
the reasons it's so difficult to find educational
technology that aligns with an educational culture. Public
and private investors pay less attention to the good an
innovation can do for the community, and more attention to
how much the applicant reminds them of a younger version of
their ambitious selves.
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