The screen reader is very low volume compared to everything else, can barely hear it over the chickens at the start. I got stuck at "press the _ key to hear my name", (i couldn't tell what button it said, either up or r maybe?), but i must've tried every button on my keyboard now, and s i think just replayed it, but i can't get past this point. And pressing "P" has brought up a menu, i thought i clicked volume up but it didn't seem to work, and I am stuck in this menu and can't get out with escape or P. It's a fun sounding story and I would like to continue it!
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You're so close to being able to explore the world and actually play the game, of course I'll help!
First and foremost, you will have a much better experience overall if you download one of the native builds for the game, but I know not everyone is comfortable doing that (or maybe you have a Mac, which we don't support). If you want to stick to browser, we've noticed that our game works much better in Chrome than Firefox.
The game defaults to having the TTS voice volume at 80%, so there's a little room to turn that up, but if it still sounds too quiet, the other option is to turn down the music and sound effects volumes to compensate. The best time to do this is as soon as the game starts, when you start hearing my voice. If you pause then, there will be no music or other sound effects playing at all. You should hear the pause menu say "Settings" to let you know that is currently selected in the menu, so you can then press the spacebar to select it, and you should hear "Voice" to let you know you currently have "Voice" selected in the submenu, but can still press up and down to hear the other options before selecting one. You can go back a level in the menu at any time with the X key. When you get to a specific setting, there are a few entries like "Change" and "Get Current Value" and "Reset to Default Value," so you'll want to select "Change" (the first menu entry you encounter) and then use your up and down arrow keys to adjust this and then press space to save the value.
So on a brand new game, changing the voice volume to maximum would look like this: p, space, down, space, space, space, up, up, space, p. Just in case the TTS voice is so low that you can't even hear it to navigate the menus.
Here are the settings I'd suggest adjusting:
Settings > Volumes > Voice Volume Settings > Volumes > Music > Music Master Volume Settings > Volumes > Sounds > Sound Effects Master Volume
Turn the Voice Volume up to max (10), and turn the others down to a level you're comfortable with.
And you're right, when you get to the Dojo, the first button Chili asks you to use is R. If you go too long without hitting the correct button, Chili will interrupt to remind you what you're supposed to be doing. This is the format for the rest of that Divining Rod tutorial: he will explain a concept, and then test to make sure you perform it, but if you take too long (10 seconds, I think?) he will interrupt to remind you again of exactly what he asked you to do.
Good luck, and we hope you give the game another shot. Let us know if you have more trouble or can't find a good volume mix so you can hear TTS, and you can always hop in the Discord to chat faster!
Ah yeah the walkthrough for the menu helps a lot, thanks! I can navigate it just fine now, I didn't understand it at all before!
I downloaded it, is there any way to save? I think I've lost my progress now...
I tried it for a bit now, it's quite good! Interesting mechanics, and good tutorials. Once I got into it a bit the buttons made sense, and the gameplay is cool. Really cool though, it's such a nice actual gameplay and story that's completely blind accessible! And thanks for getting back and writing such a complex reply :)
THANK YOU! We're thrilled that you like it so far!
All of your settings should get saved/loaded in case you spend a lot of time tweaking volume levels or adjusting input settings, but there's no save system for the game progression itself.
However, the game is designed to let you skip a lot of content if you want. If you already learned how to unlock the Bow in the Village, it should be pretty fast to repeat (and I'll probably add a Debug action to the pause menu to let you do it even more quickly today). Almost all of the interactions in the Village are optional, so only hang out there as long as you're having fun. Once you have the Bow, you can leave the Village and explore even more :-).
There used to be Debug options for just teleporting to different places in the game, so that early testers could give feedback on different areas without having to play from scratch every time. Right before the jam deadline, I was stitching all of the areas together, and accidentally broke these teleporters, so I temporarily removed them from the game so they didn't just cause confusion and pain. I'll try to add these back in safely, so you can also just jump directly to the dungeon or to the final boss on repeat plays (or if you get bored, lol).