Electronic Arts has announced that in keeping with its patent pledge, it has just made another 23 accessibility patents open for wider-use across the games industry, and it’s also made an Unreal Engine 5 plugin that lets developer’s use EA’s photosensitivity analysis tech open-source.
Essentially, EA has made a bunch of technology it patented available to developers across the industry free of charge, and now more developers will be able to make their games more accessible to players from the get-go.
The 23 additional patents makes the full list top out at 38, including patents for speech recognition, expressive speech audio, and more.
“We believe that games should be accessible to everyone and our industry-leading teams are always looking for new ways to make this a reality,” said senior vice president of global affairs at EA, Kerry Hopkins, in a press release.
“By making this technology available to others, we continue to work to enhance accessibility and inclusivity for players around the world by removing unintended barriers to access.”
Source – [EA Press Release]