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Patricia3 days ago (1 edit)

I unfortunately must say that (possibly, probably due to skill issues), I had a lot of trouble figuring out how the game worked, when I was playing with eyes closed and with my screen reader. I am hoping I may come back to it and start understanding it better at a second try, by the first one was quite overwhelming and I had to quit. I’m sighted, so there’s that; I’m not a pro ‘blind games gamer’ - I’m not even a pro ‘gamer’ but I guess I typically understand the controls and what’s happening, if I don’t skill to make things work perfectly.

I might be wrong, but I would try to make a more calm and slow tutorial to understand the controls and what they do. The way I was visualizing the game was not fitting what was really happening, there was a big mismatch that kept making me confused and unsure about how to navigate.

Then there are the little bugs - the narrator starting to speak once we open the game, unexpectedly; one time my screen reader was not reading the buttons, for some reason, but it worked when I restarted NVDA, so I think that one was a bug on my end; and the SAPI and Screen reader playing at the same time (which I was also taught that I could deactivate, so yeah). And these may also have hindered a bit my experience, and contributed to the overwhelm. But I think even with them fixed, I would suggest to look at the game tutorial and also trying to test the game with non-savvy gamers who are blind, because I’m curious to know if I’m the only demographic that’s having trouble with learning how to play.

This sucks! But I will try again, and I hope it’s going to be less difficult. But I’m not. I am so excited to play this game, and I hope this could eventually be brought to my low savviness so I can play with eyes closed and imagine rich environments and things, the way I have done with some other (perhaps simpler) audiogames in the past.

Edit: VOD here for a few days: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2712855875

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Joozey3 days ago (1 edit)

Sorry to hea this! What in the tutorial is overstimulating for you? Is it the sounds, too much text or information? Or the character speaking?

I dont know what SAPI is. There is an option to switch between TTS and Screenreader. If screenreader causes multiple systems for you to talk, try switch to TTS setting. Maybe its a bug where initially both go on

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Patricia3 days ago(+1)

I just said SAPI as I was copying what someone else said somewhere else but yeah, that’s the TTS. What’s interesting is the TTS doesn’t start at the start, only a bit into it, not sure what triggers it. I’d have to try some QA testing to exactly find out how to trigger it.

In the gameplay and tutorial what’s overstimulating is what is happening doesn’t match what I’m imagining. What I understood (wrongly I guess) is that the joystick would point me to a cardinal point. So I would be standing in a single spot, and if I “look right” with the joystick I hear what’s to my east/right. Then I would Interact with the left button (X) or confirm the interaction with bottom (A). Instead, what happened is I could keep using the joystick down and down and down and new things keep showing up. If I press down once it reads me something and tells me to continue pressing down, before I chose to “interact” with it. This was quite confusing and also makes me confused. What happens if I press down then? Am I walking? When am I walking, when am I not? If I press down right then and then move the joystick to the right, what is going to happen? Am I looking at the cardinal point again as if I were in the first spot, or is this in the “submenu” I just opened because I pressed down twice?

This may give you a gist about how confused I felt, but there’s a lot you can see about my experience in a VOD: Edit: VOD here for a few days: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2712855875

Trigger warning: I get a little bit defensive when people mention some problems might be with my screen reader (because I reset it). This was a bug that was reading “dot dot”, I’d look into that as well because I had NVDA set to “some” punctuation, not “most” or “all”. I had to set it to “no punctuation/off” to not hear the dot dot but I don’t think that’s right. When I do daily stuff with “some” punctuation, it doesn’t typically announce punctuation, so I don’t know why it did here, and why two dots. I wonder if you meant to add an ellipsis somewhere and instead of doing “…” did “..”.

You can check my VOD, I rambled a big lot about it, and continue to do it even after “playing”, almost up until I start the next game. VOD here for a few days: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2712855875

I hope this helps, because I’m very curious and eager to play this game.

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Joozey3 days ago

Thanks for the detailed feedback! It definitely helps, and there are some bugs that I did not encounter in all the testing! I'll be fixing those where I can.

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