A good example of game accessibility for gamers with an auditory disability is Doom3[CC], developed by Reid Kimball who works as a designer at LucasArts. Kimball started the Games[CC] group to research and develop closed-captions for games. The Games[CC] group released an MOD for Doom3 named Doom3[CC} which enables people with hearing disabilities to percieve all the information communicated by audio in the game. This not only includes the dialogs but also the sounds of crawling zombies and footsteps behind the player. For Doom3, these sounds are essential in order to stay alive as long as possible. What makes Doom3[CC] special is that Kimball included a visual radar which hints the position of the sound sources. This way deaf gamers not only know that a certain sound can be heard, but also where it is coming from.
The Doom3[CC] MOD can be downloaded for free and shows the possibilities of adding closed-captions in games. Of course, the ideal situation for closed-captions in games is the developer adding the captions during the development of the game (presumably synchrononized to management of sound files and the implementation of the sound files.
Visit the Games[CC] group website
Visit the Doom3[CC] website at Planetdoom/Gamespy
Visit the Doom3[CC] user forum
You can see the Doom3[CC] mod in action here (video page).
Below are links to videos of Doom3[CC]:
Please note that no closed-captions have been added to these movies.
![Doom3[CC] logo](pics/doom3.jpg)
