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Godot is a game engine that is open source. It is pretty popular with indie game developers but not only is it not very accessible but it is not easy to develop for screenreader support. Currently there is development that will appear in a future release that supports screenreader support better, but this project aimed to provide a means to branch that gap for developers. In other words - this project exists to help sighted developers make more accessible games. hope that explains better.

One thing that kind of sucks is that there were a few gaps in my model that I discovered while implementing it in my own game. it works quite well but there’s a few bugs I never got around to fixing because of life. but there are several forks on github that probably address these issues

Redsneasel12129 days ago

That definitely helps explain it yeah. Was glad to see you are still making games. I was a really big fan of your Braillemon game back in the day. I have been having issues getting the latest game I got from you to work though. the one with the critters. I couldn't find the correct file path to put the accessibility file in to make it work.

Punished Felix129 days ago (3 edits)

Yeah I had no idea how to automate it in a modern setting when I made it so I just communicated to my tester how to enable it. Its also in the instructions but people these days expect to just have it automated lol I’m such a boomer. Typically I set a toggle to F2 though, I think that’s in the most recent release? Try that to see if that helps. My most recent game The Castle should be better with the screenreader.

Redsneasel12129 days ago

Okay thanks, will try that. yeah, I tried to look for the file path and just couldn't get it working. hopefully this helps. :) I know accessibility isn't always the easiest to do so thanks for doing it. And will look into your other game too and see how it works :)

Redsneasel12129 days ago

Just tried f2 and it worked to get accessibility going. Unfortunately, the game closes when I try to choose the option for new game. And this is for critter sanctuary. Am I doing something wrong?

Punished Felix128 days ago

Honestly it may just be broken. I can investigate later but it might take a while. I dropped off development on that game. Sorry to say. But I’ll look into it when I have some free time. I would definitely check out my other demo since it’s a lot more stable.

Redsneasel12127 days ago

Thanks for getting back to me. Yeah, something's definitely not working with the critter game for some reason. I tried it several times and it kept closing the game whenever I would start a new game. Since never played it before, was the only option I could take other than changing a few options under the menu already. I will look into the castle game later. Who knows, might really like it :) Take your time if you need it looking into things; know life outside of making games can be both important and sometimes take a while :)

Punished Felix126 days ago

I had a bit of time, looked into it, there’s a bad resource call, I updated the windows and Linux releases, it should work now. It’s a pretty buggy and short game though just warning you

Redsneasel12126 days ago

Thanks for doing that. Will look into it later. Interesting concept for sure though, the game I mean. Sounds kinda like pokemon but not :)

Punished Felix126 days ago

Yeah! The idea was you’re in a Pokemon-like world, but you are helping treat the rejected monsters so they can have a safe place to stay and be adopted by tamers. They have behavioral issues that make them unwanted and working with them helps them learn how to deal with change better. I never got to get very far with development though and there are a lot of bugs.

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