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Change Log

Want to know more about how AbleToPlay evolves over time? Our log of updates and patches is below.

v0.2.1

Updates and fixes

  • Updated and refined our data taxonomy.
  • Editing your needs and preferences has a new interface.
  • Updated our registration and login system to be much more user-friendly, and to have more helpful error messages.
  • Updated our moderator and game management tools to make it easier and faster to manage game data.
  • Fixed a bug that would prevent some icons from loading.
  • Updated the styling of the user-avatar area in the header navigation to be more clear.
  • Updated the profile to have a dashboard with a summary of your needs and preferences, as well as some V1 areas for soon-to-arrive features.

New features

  • The AbleToPlay Homepage has undergone a massive evolution, and now supports our full signup-system.
    • The homepage features many testimonials from our Beta Testers. To everyone who shared feedback during our Beta, thank you so much!!
  • We published a new AbleToPlay About Page that tells the story of how AbleToPlay came to be, as well as shining some light on who we're working with to bring AbleToPlay to life.
  • We published a new General Contact Page, Business Contact Page, and a Contact Page to Apply To Become A Paid Tester.
  • The Discovery experience now has categories and sub-pages that can be browsed.
  • Games now have a redesigned Personalized Scores area.

v0.2

  • We've made updates to our data taxonomy to include more Cognitive, Vision, Mobility, Auditory, Trigger, and Other quality-of-life features.
  • Page and image loading has been significantly improved.
  • The new site top-navigation has been updated with more accessible colors, adjusted placement, and other improvements.
  • We made improvements to our back-end systems.
  • When editing your profile, there's some updated descriptions and helper text, and the Save button has been moved to below your profile options.
  • We've made a variety of improvements to the colors and styling of text and buttons.
  • We've received reports of icons sometimes not displaying, and we're tracking down the root cause!

v0.1.2

  • New v2 landing page is live! This will evolve over time to feature previews of the different games categories.
  • Discovery page has grown to 20 games, including Hades, Untitled Goose Game, Horizon Zero Dawn, and more.
  • Needs and Preferences data has received some spot-updates.

v0.1.1

  • Support Center color values have undergone accessibility review for appropriate color-contrast, and have been adjusted accordingly.
  • Support Center content has been updated and expanded. Hooray!
  • Main site navigation has been updated on desktop and mobile.
  • Update Call-Out component styling has been updated and now supports links.

v0.1.0

We're kicking off the first week of October with an absolutely packed update.

  • Users can now specify whether something is a Need or a Preference in their Profile.
  • The personalized score algorithm now takes into account Needs and Preferences.
  • Games can now Fully or Partially fulfill a Need or Preference. Games can also explicitly mark certain Need-types as "Not Relevant" to the game; for example, Thalassophobia support in a cozy inside-only cooking game.
  • Developers and Publishers are now listed on all games.
  • Under the hood, AbleToPlay has received a performance tune-up.
  • More games have been added to the Database.
  • The AbleToPlay Support Site has been built.
  • The Accessibility Data itself has received an significant update.