Gaming Disability

List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Gaming (and) Disability; Part I: Representation; 2. A History of Disability in Video Game Character Design; 3. Dis/abling Androids: Gaming, Posthumanism, and Critical Disability Studies; 4. Outliers as Heroes: Disability, Representation, and Inclusion in Blizzardâs Overwatch; 5. The Dis/ability of the Avatar: Vulnerability Versus the Autonomous Subject; 6. Crashing through Capitalism: Happy Wheels, Debilitation, and Disability Representation; 7. A Missile to the Face: Scarred Characters in Mass Effect 2; 8. Representations of Ability in Digital Games; Part II: Digital Access and Design; 9. A Spectrum of Real: Augmented Reality and Social Scaffolding; 10. Towards Inclusive Game Design; 11. The Ultimate Medium for People with Disabilities? Re-Centring the Human in Virtual Reality Visions of Play, Care, and Empathy; 12. The Sociological Accessibility of Gaming; 13. A Life-Course Analysis of Third-Age Digital Game Players in China; 14. Gaming with Blindness in Audio Virtual Reality: Making BlindSide; Part III: Inclusive Communities; 15. A (Dis-)abling Gaming Model for Playful Inclusion: Playing (Digital) Games with Persons with and without Learning Difficulties and Dis/abilities; 16. Online Games Players in Darkness: A Study of the Blind Gaming Community; 17. Pok©mon Go and Urban Accessibility; 18. Crip Twitchology: Youâre Already One of Us; 19. Minecraft as an Online Playground: Reframing Play and Games in a Minecraft Community for Autistic Youth