Friday, April 8, 2016

Arcade Land, the Spanish game for cerebral palsy – IGN Spain

Sony continues to make efforts to promote the inclusion of all types of players. If the other day we told the initiative of an employee of Sony to meet the claim of a user with cerebral palsy who created a specific command to solve their difficulties, today we have a story that comes from more cerquita.

And according to told us Sony Spain, under its PlayStation Talents program are co-producing the game called Arcade Land , which will mark the milestone of being the first Spanish game adapted for users with cerebral palsy .

the title is composed of six mini 3D inspired by arcade classics like Arkanoid life. It is developed for players of any age can control the game with DualShock 4 and those with reduced mobility can avail themselves of the peripheral PlayStation Camera and manage it using the torso or head .

According comment, has already been tested on patients with cerebral palsy and its development have advised specialized in neurology physiotherapists. Clarify, though, that are not intended to replace therapy, but to create incentives and encourage the use of large muscle groups.

In the words of Ignacio Garcia , Technical Director of the Center Neurological therapy Monte del Pilar and supervisor of mechanics Arcade game Land:

” patients with cerebral palsy use some positions that are very repetitive and are, in actually, the enemy because of repeated that position both deformities, muscle shortening, chronic pain is occurring and what to avoid. We try to bring the game to people with cerebral palsy so that they can replace that fine movement causing disease patterns by a thick movement using motion larger muscle groups such as the trunk or head which are much less harmful ” .

La idea came from social marketing agency Helping , led by Juan José González López-Huerta , a professional with extensive experience in the gaming world. It has been developed by the Spanish study Koth Studio and has the support of the Foundation “La Caixa Obra Social”. It will soon be available on PlayStation 4 worldwide, with an estimated price of € 9.99.

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