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60 Years in Space

Solo or coop hard sci-fi space sim · By half-a.press

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Exploring This Game as a Totally Blind Player

A topic by zkline created Nov 13, 2025 Views: 214 Replies: 10
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zkline165 days ago

Hi there,


I'm writing as a huge fan of hard sci-fi conceptually who happens to be totally blind. I recently stumbled across mention of 60 Years in Space on Reddit, and was intrigued to say the least.


Unfortunately I lack access to the High Frontier map, which seems to be essential for play. Nevertheless I want to figure out a way to explore the game with all the narrative, procedural events and so on.


I wondered if you had any ideas for making the experience a little more accessible for me. It seems to me that the fundamental problem is informational. IF I can figure out a way to notate mission phases, events happening and so onthings will be a lot easier. IT's a hurdle fo presentation, more or less.


If you have any thoughts on this question I would love to know. I feel like there's a lot of fun to be had here personally if I can figure out how to get over the hump of how do I start?


Thanks much,

Zack.

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paolorob165 days ago

Maybe this can be of help? https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/256619/original-playmat-for-print

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half-a.pressDeveloper165 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

There is a high frontier site list which has the burns to each site from LEO at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1TGDLdBEEjtkLFcg0j19R_sgRlkmSeIGXIhT_Pyj_rfw/htmlview#gid=0 I had thought someone had made a map planner in Python but all the map resources I can find are visual planners

I can also try rendering the PDFs in various accessible formats, but I really don’t know how to make tables work for someone who is visually impaired: the tables are really complex in some instances, and can also use colour to convey some information.

However I think the actual fix is something I’m planning for the update after next which is a cut down version of the game which features the “minimum lovable product” which will have you playing as a Mission Control moving your spacecraft around the solar system and rolling for trends.

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zkline164 days ago

Wonderful insights. :)


I did make a CLI-based program which lets me navigate around the system. IT's not perfect but lets me explore a bit. I wonder if IC an use that somehow.


Your update also sounds promising. I guess I hsould buy things as they stand now and see how it looks. I'm mostly just wondering about the best way to track things electronically since, obviously, colored dice etc. aren't practical. 

I actually work in accessibility so am happy to help out however I can with formatting and so on. PDF is tricky but not impossible to do right. If the original source document is available that might be better to begin from.


Thanks for getting back to me :)

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half-a.pressDeveloper164 days ago (2 edits)

I design in LaTeX which supports various epublishing formats as well.

Is the more complex tables something that would be more useful to expose as a spreadsheet in e.g. Google docs?

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half-a.pressDeveloper164 days ago(+1)

With regards to the issues with coloured dice, dropping counters and so on, I think the minimum lovable product version will be the best approach. That way you can solitaire play the major part of the game with much reduced record keeping. All of the counter/dice interactions are for “zoomed in” parts of the game and zooming in is intentionally optional.

A Lot of Zeroes is also a standalone space exploration game that I’ve published except the scale is up to 30LY/cm and up to million year long turns.

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zkline164 days ago

Oh wow. I might have to check that out just for the sheer scale :)


And yeah, Google Sheets is another way to expose complex data. TO be honest I love LaTeX source but would understand why you might not want to provide that. 


Thanks for being encouraging/open to this question. It's very much appreciated.

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half-a.pressDeveloper163 days ago

I’m less worried about sharing LaTeX source because it requires a version that I don’t believe is available any more.

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zkline163 days ago

Well, I did buy A Lot of Zeroes :) It's definitely elaborate. I'm not sure how to emulate the dice dropping mechanism but am sure I can come up with something.


I will grab Sixty Years when I can, as that kind of near future stuff appeals to me a great deal.

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half-a.pressDeveloper163 days ago

Normally you’ll only visit 1 solar system in a sector  so you can just generate the systems on a table and choose one.

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throneofsalt150 days ago (2 edits)

I did a five-part breakdown of a single mission I ran solo (written up specifically to help people who might want to try it out and need a solid example of play), and this is the map I used. Wouldn't have been able to manage without it.

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