It’s good to see someone working on games for those who are disabled in some way.

The Singapore M.I.T. Gambit Game Lab’s main goal is to make games that can be distributed globally from the start instead of producing games from one continent, then later translating them for other continents. A student named Eitan Glinert thought it would be a good idea to make a game catered to people who are visually impaired for his Master’s thesis.

Along with the help of seven other students and a professor, the team created a game called AudiOdyssey that allows the blind to play alongside with those who can see.

The game can be played with either a….

A group of researchers at MIT are working on a video game they expect to appeal to a broad audience, including a group that, until now, has been neglected: the visually impaired.

The game, titled AudiOdyssey, is based on matching the rhythm of various audio tracks just as a DJ would. All you need is a good ear. If the player makes a mistake, she/he gets an ugly sound and the crowd will start to demand a good performance. To make things easier and more intuitive they adapted the WiiMote so that the game can be controlled by waving it in time with the beats.

AudiOdyssey is still a prototype but the developers hope the…