Welcome on One Hand Gaming!
Here is a small website with some information about my handicap, and how I game. When I was born I had a shortage of oxygen, that’s why my right hand and leg do not function properly. Many friends and family and off course the members of www.xboxworld.nl wonder how I can game, with the loss of my right hand and leg, and at the same time be so good. That’s why I put this site togheter, so I can let you guys see how I do this magic.
How do you game with one hand?
I don’t really game with one hand. A while ago when I had my 16-bit console from Sega,
I used to put the controller next to me. I fully played with one hand. The controllers of today’s consoles
have triggers on the back; this is a big disadvantage because I had now idea how to use these.
That’s why I use my right hand just a little bit. If you look at picture 1, you can see that I have my right hand
in a fist, and placed it down at the right side of the top of the controller.
Picture 1
I don’t really use my right hand; it only functions as a wall, which stops the controller from moving when I push it. If I wont to press the right trigger, I have to push with my left hand against the controller, so that it presses against the ‘wall’ I made with my fist. If I want to use the button, I have to lift my right hand a bit so that I can press the button. (This is really hard and needs a lot of practising because in an exiting game, my right hand functions a bit less by my excitement and tension of the game).
I have led you through the right button and the trigger, now for the rest of the controls:
To use the analogue sticks and buttons, I put my left hand on the controller (picture 2) picture 2
picture 2
I remote the left analogue stick with my index finger. With my middle finger I play the D-pad, and with my ringfinger and pinkie I can hold the controller steady. My thumb is very important in the gaming with one hand. I use the thumb to control the right analogue stick, but can also be used to use the buttons. If in the event that I need the buttons as well as the analogue stick, I move my hand and place my fingers like this:
- thumb on the buttons
- indexfinger on the right analogue stick
- middlefinger on the left analogue stick
- ring finger on the D-pad
You try it, it isn’t easy
Now the most difficult keys: the left button and trigger. I usually change the controller settings
in a game so that I have to use the left button and trigger as less as possible.
(So game developers, think about me, when making a game!)
Picture 3
To use the left trigger and button I place my hand, showed in picture 3 all the way over
the controller.Picture 3
The middlefinger takes the left trigger for his account, the indexfinger the left button. Steering in race games goes a different way. It doesn’t goes with the usual finger, but with the fingers that are positioned over the left thumb stick. (Are you still with me?)
Watch picture 3 again. With my thumb I can control the buttons or the right analogue stick.
This was it for now. If you have any questions, suggestions or complaints, I would like to hear them, so let me know.
Here are some video's to see me in action! Windows media files
Fore more info, feel free to contact me by email
rara@solcon.nl
Groet, Albert (appie21)
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