Twitch Streamer With ALS Plays Games and Creates Content Using Only Their Eyes
A Twitch streamer living with ALS has been streaming games using only their eyes as a means to control in-game characters. With games now being built to accommodate the needs of many different types of players, this particular Twitch streamer demonstrates the importance of such innovation.
In recent years, accessibility has become an important new focus when studios approach developing new games. Studios and developers have begun to realize the importance of making games that a variety of different people are able to play. As a way to make the gaming experience a more inclusive one, recent titles have made great steps toward progress in accessibility, with big-name games like The Last of Us winning awards for their innovations. These improvements bring video games to a much larger audience, making the gaming world even richer and more diverse when it comes to players.
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One Twitch streamer known as YvMHawking is showcasing just how incredibly far accessibility in gaming has come with his live gaming broadcasts. Despite having ALS, YvMHawking is able to play games, edit his videos, and even make his own RPGs all with just an eye tracker. There have been a variety of ways gaming companies have worked to create more accessibility with controllers, like the recently announced accessible controller by PlayStation, and it's amazing to see just how versatile an eye tracker can be, whether it's for gaming or video editing.
At the time of this writing, YvMHawking has a little over ten thousand followers on Twitch, and he regularly streams four times a week. It seems as though YvMHawking's current game of choice is Knight Online, the MMORPG that was
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