{"id":81504,"date":"2019-02-08T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/336294"},"modified":"2019-02-08T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T20:48:00","slug":"american-sign-language-emotes-added-to-star-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/08\/american-sign-language-emotes-added-to-star-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"American Sign Language emotes added to Star Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with its community,\u00a0Cloud Imperium Games has\u00a0added American Sign Language support to\u00a0<em>Star Citizen<\/em> for its deaf and hard of hearing players.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great step forward for making games more inclusive, and other developers should take note when considering adding accessible features to their titles as well.<\/p>\n<p>It also seems to be one of the first games to include\u00a0ASL emotes in this way, so it&#8217;s important to commend the effort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of community members who are hard of hearing or maybe deaf and they don&#8217;t interact with the game in the same way that someone who hears voice would do so,&#8221;\u00a0explains\u00a0animation director Steve Bender in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=76fpL2RQDmI\">developer video<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response, <em>Star Citizen<\/em> devs\u00a0added\u00a0emotes for deaf and partially deaf players in American Sign Language.\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m really happy for the community to have this opportunity to be able to roleplay and to express themselves in the way that they see fit,&#8221; Bender adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with its community,\u00a0Cloud Imperium Games has\u00a0added American Sign Language support to\u00a0Star Citizen for its deaf and hard of hearing players. This is a great step forward for making games more inclusive, and other developers should take note when considering adding accessible features to their titles as well. It also seems to be one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}