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PlayStation Cooperate with home video game database

An online platform , It can help parents understand and guide their children's game experience

PlayStation Cooperate with home video game database

Andy Robertson,《 Tame the game 》 The founder of the video game and the author of the family database

Database was born

As an avid gamer and father , I share the fun of games with my family and children . On the journey , I also realized , For parents or guardians who are not playing games , Understanding and guiding their family's experience can be a challenge .

I want to point out an online resource to my parents , This resource introduces them to various games that they can play at home . Although there are some great websites , But browsing them as parents or guardians who don't play games is often confusing and complex . So I created a home video game database .

The plan is for me in a place called Taming Gaming Each game mentioned in the book provides a page . These are no jargon , The language used by people who don't play games can follow . They include official Age Classifications 、 cost 、 The duration of the 、 Information on the number of players and accessibility features .

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Rapid growth

In just a few weeks , The site has tens of thousands of visitors , And boarded BBC Breakfast and BBC Click、 Sky news , And boarded 《 The Times 》. Parents like the way games are grouped into unusual lists （ Let the children read 、 Find peace 、 Be a good neighbor 、 Living in the wild ） And how they find younger game alternatives through carefully selected suggestions .

In charity 、 School 、 With the support of universities and the video game industry , The database can rapidly develop to today's scale . It includes 1,500 Multiple games , And there are often 15,000 Visitors read the page .

The importance of accessibility

It is our mission to help parents find wonderful games for their children and family . One important and natural part is to help parents find games for disabled children . After talking to a wide range of accessibility experts and making plans , Playability initiative contact us , Add accessibility data for each game .

Obviously , It's not just about recording settings or options . We need to deal with accessibility from the perspective of the parents of search games . It's important to include the game in the results , Not only are obstacles avoided because of settings or functions , It also includes games that have no obstacles at the beginning . for example , search in progress “All Speech Subtitled” when , We will also return to games without voice and subtitles . This means that the data is slightly more complex , But search results maximize the games found , Avoid specific obstacles .

We received Carina Initiative Grant of , And VSC Rating committee 、IGEA and AskAboutGames Wait for a series of partners , Enables us to expand this and other parts of the center . We have learned a lot in this huge field of video games , At the same time, I also made some good friends . The goal is to help parents discover potential games for their children that may require specific functions to play their games , And summarize this information for our audience . Accessibility and accessible content are an integral part of our website , It is also the focus of our outlook for the future of home video game database .

Ambition for the future

Earlier this year , Sony interactive entertainment (SIE) Contacted us to support what we are doing . After many discussions , Obviously , Our mission to help as many people as possible find wonderful games that contribute to their lives overlaps greatly .

“ Home video game database is a good platform , It can help parents and guardians understand the world of video games , We are very happy to be its first corporate sponsor . stay Sony Interactive Entertainment, We hope everyone can be in our PlayStation Get a pleasant experience on the platform , Therefore, it is very important for parents to make wise decisions when playing video games —— From using parental controls on our consoles to choosing the best game for them and their family ,” SIE Director of trust and security Sean Whitcomb say .

And SIE and PlayStation Brand cooperation means that we can make new and ambitious expansion of our work . This includes more work on accessibility , But it also enhances the way parents and guardians browse the website . We are developing an integrated search , Highlight our game list 、 Features and blogs , And the game itself .

It allows us to develop tools to help developers contribute their own data to the database . This is especially popular with small studios and independent developers , They can fill out questionnaires to create their own accessibility pages on the database . This can not only help people find their games , You can also highlight the features and settings they can add , So as to enhance the game experience of more people . In the year of release

Creating a home video game database has been an exciting moment , Next year, as a partner with Sony interactive entertainment, looks more exciting .