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He is now comfortable in nearly all conversations and with sharing thoughts about himself and his life. He even has a girlfriend now!
It makes me happy. Thank you so much for your great work and effort!
The social gaming sessions, even though they seem counterintuitive to my thoughts on reducing screen time, have given my son a feeling that he belongs to a community of friends who have a common interest in Minecraft.
He is also becoming better at communicating whilst he is playing the game, both about the game and joining in other conversations.
The Lightmare Studios Social Games Community is run by our very own veteran game development team and community managers, alongside support workers.
This gives participants a safer and engaging space for those living with a disability to connect and cooperate with like-minded gamers, through both playing and/or creating games together.
They can also optionally learn skills crucial to employment in the Video Games industry and many adjacent digital industries. Lightmare employs a select number of those living with a disability and provides disability support through this employment.
Whilst available to all those living with a disability, all costs can also be covered in full by NDIS. We can support those living with a disability not yet on the NDIS to access government funding both for our social activities, and other life expenses.
Lightmare Studios is a respected Australian institution in the game development, education and the broader disability sectors.
For over 16 years, we’ve served and partnered with our global playerbase of over half a million players, industry alliances and veteran developers.
Through these relationships, we’ve established internationally award-winning video games, disability support services and game development training, with the last two delivered to over 3000 Australian youths.
Our games community sessions are a flagship example of this.
The Discovery Session is a specially structured free introductory session including both a regular session and also a brief overview of our “Lightmare Safe & Fun Socialisation Methodology” and time for questions.
Social Games Sessions are held completely online multiple times during the week. We use our own custom software and communication servers.
Our service delivery is second to none, thanks to being both a veteran game studio and training academy.
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Across our 16+ years of operation, having met and collaborated with a number of fellow large, global Game Developers, we have naturally formed strong relationships across the worldwide games industry. This allows us access to many titles, even including limited early access to unreleased games.
We have partnered with entities like Star Trek (CBS), Swinburne University and various international game publishers. We have also won international awards from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco and the Learning Impact Awards for Innovation in Training in the United States.
Participants don’t just join a social games community, they join a worldwide games company embedded in an industry where ~25% of employees have some form of disability. An industry where they truly belong.
For participants wanting to socially play video games, a PC, Mac, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch, PS5 or iPAD/Tablet is required. This is subject to minimum specs.
For participants wanting to socially create video games, a PC or Mac is required. This is subject to higher minimum specs.
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