Sunday, October 26, 2014

How One Person Made a Difference


This might not seem like much but I thought this was a very interesting story about empathy in entrepreneurship.

I was scrolling on some online forums and came across this screenshot of a discussion between a game developer and a disabled gamer. A videogame development team was making an old-school dungeon exploration game for PC. The following was an exchange between the team lead and the gamer:


The change was so simple and unobtrusive yet significant. Prior to the change the gamer stated he was willing to learn how to play the game as-is. The team lead could have simply left the matter alone right there and them. Instead he thought otherwise and changed the interface of the game to accommodate the individual's disability. Besides having a competitive advantage over other developers, this particular developer went out of his way to adjust something that was more user-friendly for the disabled. 

And that's pretty cool.