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SpecialEffect win Ukie Diversity and Inclusion Award
We were delighted and humbled to receive the Diversity and Inclusion Award at the 2024 Ukie Video Game Awards in Birmingham on Thursday 7 March. The award recognises a UK organisation or individual working within the UK games industry that encouraged meaningful diversity and inclusion within the games industry in 2023, and the shortlist included…
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“The benefits are beyond our expectations”
Last year, the manufacturers of the small remote-controlled AV1 desktop robots that we use for our BubbleBusters project asked if we would be able to help a child in a Scottish primary school. The pupil was receiving chemotherapy treatment and would be off school for at least a year, missing out on lessons and vital…
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“No matter what MND throws at me, SpecialEffect come up with solutions”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmkPKstOMdo It’s a privilege to be supporting Sam with his gaming journey. He has motor neurone disease, and our specialist assessment team first helped him to play games with an adapted gaming controller setup that included a chin-controlled joystick and leg-operated button switches. Take a look at the short video of his story below. As…
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When UpIsNotJump visited SpecialEffect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0J9PG57sak For GameBlast24, we were visited by a wonderful new friend of the charity, UpIsNotJump (Matt), his wife Emma and videographer Milo, to film a video all about SpecialEffect’s work into making gaming more accessible for physically disabled gamers. An entire day’s filming full of accessible games, cake, ridiculously strong coffee and stories resulted in…
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Lucinda’s eye-controlled Silverstone tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4nxWRnFEpY SpecialEffect Ambassador Lucinda Ritchie was a guest at the Silverstone Museum in December for a very special tour of its legendary motor racing memorabilia. Car-mad Lucinda toured the museum from her own living room more than one hundred miles away using a self-driving, two-wheeled videoconferencing robot, which SpecialEffect has adapted so that it can…
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“It’s like… joy!” Rodney reacts to SpecialEffect’s help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmvTRH7dHYM Your incredible generosity has brought hope, opportunity and inclusion to so many people whose dreams of gaming to the best of their abilities – or simply gaming at all – would otherwise remain unfulfilled. On behalf of everyone we’ve had the privilege to help, let us introduce you to Rodney, whose words in this…
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