Richard Van Tol

International Game Developers Association

Richard Van Tol

Doctoral Candidate Game Audio, Game Audio/Game Accessibility researcher, Audio Game Developer

Richard is completing his doctorate at the University of Portsmouth (England), researching game audio design. He has an Audio Engineer diploma, a M.A. in Audio Design, and is currently a researcher at the Utrecht School of the Arts (the Netherlands), involved in projects related to game audio, accessibility, social applications and adaptive systems. He also teaches a course in game audio design. Richard researched the accessibility of games for gamers with disabilities at the Bartiméus Accessibility Foundation (Netherlands). He has been active in the field of game accessibility since 2001, developing and researching blind-accessible games such as Drive – a racing game for the blind, and managing projects such as Game-Accessibility.com - a community website about accessible gaming and Audio Game Maker - a game development tool for the blind. Richard is co-founder of AudioGames.net, a community website for gamers and researchers that focuses on audio games (games that consist of sound only).