Hi there!
I am creating a collection of fully blind accessible games, and your game is listed under the "blind support tag". The word "blind" means different things to different people, and within that wide spectrum their are various levels of expertise with visual UI's. but as a fully blind gamer, I am wondering what features this game provides for those who can not see the screen at all. Do you have "screen reader" or "text to speech" support? Is your game fully playable with a keyboard or controller, rather than having to point the mouse at buttons on the interface? If the answer to those questions is no, it would still be great to know what options are provided for those with less severe visual impairments, so that I might make them aware of your game's usability for them. Thank you for any information you can provide, it's very much appreciated! :)
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Hello, and thanks for checking in! We are using ren'py as our engine, which has built-in TTS support. It can be enabled and disabled by pressing v on the keyboard. Once enabled, the menus, as well as all the game text, are being read out loud. The menu, as well as the rest of the game, can be navigated exclusively via keyboard, or controller, if that's preferred. Additionally, all of the prologue, as well as all direct speech within the game, are voice acted by the team. Those lines seemlessly are being played while TTS is enabled.
If you have further questions, or improvement suggestions to better help the vision impaired community, please don't hesitate to reach out further.
Certainly, I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.
All the menu and settings items are text-only, there are no important graphical elements in that portion of the game. However, the game makes use of background images to set the scenes or the location the characters are interacting in in that moment. Those do not have any text descriptors as of this moment.
We do have an update planned for a host of other fixes, adding texts for scene descriptions is now on the agenda as well.