I’m Valentin Squirelo, an inventor and developer who has been working in the video game and entertainment industry for the last twenty years.

Since 2013, I’ve been building new ways to play and unconventional inventions for game studios and brands like Red Bull, including award-winning projects like the Nosulus Rift, created for South Park in collaboration with Ubisoft.

Over time, that work naturally expanded into accessibility. From inventions made purely to play and have fun, like a Nerf prosthetic created in 2017 to experimental ways to play such as VR prosthetics, the focus always remained the same: adapting play to people, not the other way around.

From experiments to a larger problem

In 2018, I began building and testing accessibility tools and unconventional ways to play live on Twitch and YouTube, working closely with my community. What started as hands-on experiments quickly revealed a much bigger problem.

A huge number of people are excluded from gaming.

Hundreds of millions of disabled players can’t play the way they want, either because existing solutions cost thousands of euros, or because traditional controllers are simply unusable.

And yet, video games matter. They allow people to socialize, experience stories, explore worlds, and be someone else.

It was clear this couldn’t stay a series of one-off experiments.

The birth of PlayAbility

In early 2023, those years of experiments, feedback, and community collaboration finally came together. Live on Twitch, with the people who needed it most, PlayAbility Adaptive Software was born.

What started as helping one person at a time became a shared effort to build something that could help many people at once, and that collective work continues to shape PlayAbility today.

The mission

PlayAbility exists for one reason:

To give everyone the ability to play video games using their own body and capabilities.

I’ve already helped thousands of people play again. With your continued support, I want to help millions do the same.

So they can play video games, like everyone else.