{"id":3845,"date":"2021-12-15T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2021-12-15T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:31:35","slug":"eye-controlled-snakes-and-ladders-is-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/eye-controlled-snakes-and-ladders-is-a-hit","title":{"rendered":"Eye-controlled Snakes and Ladders is a hit with Ava"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-container\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vjArMiF6AMs\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Our new Snakes and Ladders game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyegazegames.com\">eyegazegames.com<\/a> already has a big fan in Ava, a Canadian girl with Rett Syndrome who uses eye control technology. It&#8217;s one of her favourite games but up to now she hasn\u2019t been able to roll the dice herself. Now she can join in the fun.<\/p>\n<p>Snakes and Ladders is the latest free-to-play online game from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyegazegames.com\">Eye Gaze Games website<\/a>. It\u2019s optimised to help gamers using eye gaze technology climb the board to victory but can also be played in a number of other ways.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3847\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3847\" class=\"wp-image-3847 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ava-image-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"Seated girl looking at computer screen\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ava-image-smaller.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ava-image-smaller-250x152.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ava-image-smaller-120x73.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ava concentrating on rolling the dice in the game<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a HUGE hit!\u201d said Ava&#8217;s mother, Jennifer. \u201cAva is so excited to be playing with us as a family! It\u2019s so great that she can see the board easily while playing and the animations are adorable and engaging. I love everything about this!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can climb the ladders (which have been made into wheelchair-friendly ramps) and avoid the snakes just by eye movement alone using an eye gaze camera, or you can use other inputs like a switch, a mouse or an assistive mouse. Compete with up to three other players locally, or against your computer in a race to the finish.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Donegan, our Projects Manager, said \u201cSnakes and Ladders is one of ten different games on the site which enable players using eye gaze technology to play a range of games with friends and family, in person and online. While our work often focuses on access to existing mainstream titles, creating our own games with a focus on accessibility for eye gaze players allows us to make sure that there are games available for players using this technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The growing selection of eye game games are browser-based and free-to-play, with the aim of removing as many barriers to play as possible, whether technical or otherwise, to players all around the world.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re indebted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riotgames.com\">Riot Games<\/a> for generously supporting the funding of the game through their Dawnbringer Karma campaign. We&#8217;d also like to thank the amazing team at <a href=\"http:\/\/sunandmoonstudios.co.uk\/\">Sun and Moon Studios<\/a>, the game&#8217;s developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our new Snakes and Ladders game at eyegazegames.com already has a big fan in Ava, a Canadian girl with Rett Syndrome who uses eye control technology. It&#8217;s one of her favourite games but up to now she hasn\u2019t been able to roll the dice herself. Now she can join in the fun. Snakes and Ladders&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/eye-controlled-snakes-and-ladders-is-a-hit\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eyegaze"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eye-controlled Snakes and Ladders is a hit with Ava - SpecialEffect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/eye-controlled-snakes-and-ladders-is-a-hit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eye-controlled Snakes and Ladders is a hit with Ava - SpecialEffect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our new Snakes and Ladders game at eyegazegames.com already has a big fan in Ava, a Canadian girl with Rett Syndrome who uses eye control technology. 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