RNIB

Design for every gamer - DFEG

At T&Pm and as part of the Design for Every Gamer (DFEG) team, we’re on a mission to create a better gaming world for people with sight loss — and to rally the industry to make real change. We’re constantly evolving, developing new projects and innovations that push the platform forward and redefine what's possible in accessible game design.

Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and T&Pm launched Design for Every Gamer, an initiative to challenge perceptions and create real change in the world of gaming.

Using livestreaming platform Twitch, sighted, blind and partially sighted gamers played popular video games whilst having an honest conversation about this very real issue in real-time.

To make this experience as authentic as possible, we worked with The Mill to create five different sight loss condition filters, with the help of experts at RNIB. These filters work via cameras and respond to gaze and head tracking. The sighted gamers’ screen is hacked with these filters, so they can experience first-hand the challenges for themselves. They range from partial sight conditions like retinitis pigmentosa, to showing the experience with little to no useful vision, demonstrating the full range of issues.