Sudden Deaf!
The Canadian Deaf Culture Centre partnered with Untold Entertainment to create a quiz game to compliment their Deaf culture gallery. Working from the DCC’s concept, we built a game shell with a format similar to Jeopardy!, where the player is posed an answer, and must respond with the appropriately-worded question. Our challenge was to create a game accessible to hearing, Deaf, and blind players, in both of Canada’s national languages, English and French.
The resulting game is quadrilingual. Two different hosts were filmed signing ASL (American Sign Language) and LSQ (Langue des signes québécoise). Audio cues and keyboard controls were added for the benefit of blind and low-vision players.
Players can type using a unique finger-spelled keypad
The video, audio, and quiz content portions of the game were the province of the Deaf Culture Centre. Because these elements could continually be under review and revision, Untold Entertainment architected the game so that video, audio and question content could be added or changed independently of any Flash game designer’s involvement. This enables the DCC to revisit the game to tweak the content, without having to burden their timeline and budget by first finding, and then hiring, a capable Flash Actionscript developer.
Play Sudden Deaf! at the Deaf Culture Centre website.
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