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I finally figured out how to beat this game! Or at least as much as you can beat any endless game. Turns out, the extra ammo is a poor choice because it increases reload times too much after a while even if you try to be smart about when you reload , and that you ideally need a balance of attack and defense stats especially in the early game. Here's what I managed to get before I eventually died anyway.
You survived 26.4 minutes and killed 629 enemies

I also got every single upgrade! Eventually, I had no rest stops LOL.

It's still kind of tricky to tell exactly when a monster is in range before they attack, but if you can reload faster, it's not as much of an issue as long as you stay calm and make sure you are prioritizing the best targets. Knowing how far to run before resting is also tricky. You don't want a bunch of monsters to pile up behind you and to make your self too weak to attacks, but you also don't want to be constantly fighting without getting more upgrades. I think the whole [running reduces health] aspect of this game is really interesting!

I was only able to test the Windows build, but it works perfectly! This is still such a fun concept. The only limiting factor is the number of options, but I know that each one requires an exponential increase in complexity. I wonder if a system like this could be hooked up to an AI, or at least a database generated by an AI and checked over by a human for accuracy. That could seriously increase the number of options, without as much work, which would be totally fine for a simple game. Thanks for making it easier to archive this concept! Perhaps someone else will be inspired by this idea.

I know it's been ages, but I still play this game. It's actually really good! My highest score was 74 monsters and 5 and a half minutes. Sometimes it's hard to tell when the monsters are close enough to shoot, which is important if you have so many that every second counts for reloading. I love the upgrade system and the randomization of it. I know that your submission was late, but honestly you could have been in the top 5 with this one otherwise. If you ever wanted to sell it, I would happily pay, just saying. Addictive stuff!

I would love to see a downloadable version of this game if such a thing were possible.

I know it's been ages, but I'd love to archive this game as it's a very cool concept. Is their any chance you would be willing to make this a downloadable game?

I really liked this game and would love to see a downloadable version, if such a thing is reasonable.

I'm sorry your kickstarter didn't work out. However, I'm really glad that you're still working on this. Fingers crossed for the success of Worldlines and the Arab culture card game, which sounds especially interesting.

P.S. your alt text descriptions are freaking amazing and I thank you for the obvious effort you put into them. It's always very appreciated!

I forgot they had a Discord available to non subscribers. They've answered here before, so I figured I may as well ask.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!

I bought this game, have the receipt and everything, and yet I can't download the purchased version any more. Why would the demo be available but not the full version. Was there some kind of arbitrary cutoff after a certain date? I assume this is payment processor nonsense, but this is a somewhat strange way of handling it on Itch's part. It's not as if the demo has any less noncon in it... Maybe it's a sort of "something is better than nothing" loophole? But if I buy it from Steam, who's to say they won't kill my next update as well? I honestly can not tell if it's possible to buy it on Patreon/Subscribe Star or not, but either way the lowest tier is $5, and while I do like this game and believe that the devs deserve to be supported, I'm not sure it's worth $60 per year and 20% of my monthly subscriptions/donations budget to stay up to date with a single game. Where do we go from here as players? Aside from just paying on Patreon every few months and going without updates in between to save some cash I mean... Is there a way we could show our receipts and get update downloads provided by  4mW from a different host going forward?

I would really love to see achievements and/or challenges for doing things particularly quickly, getting orders right allot, never making mistakes while using the equipment, ETC, for fun things like being friendly by talking to everyone fully or throwing lots and lots of cups and cinnabons, ETC, and [optionally] for doing things wrong allot.

A great game, and the one with the most heart in this jam IMO. Thank you for taking the time to make some post jam fixes, it's very much appreciated! Will definitely be using this game as an example of a good blind accessible jam submission in the future.

First, congratulations on winning the grand prize! You really deserved it. 🎆👏🏆
Second, yes, I think your idea for a new motivation is a great one And I meant it when I said that it didn't bother me that much, but your new idea would still be a nice  improvement!

Also, I would love to know who the voice actors are if they don't mind being known.

At least once a jam, I find a game that doesn't have a whole lot to offer in terms of content or scope, but for what ever reason is just addictive and replayable as hell. This is definitely one of those games.

The concept is fun, regardless of it's simplicity, and I'm so glad you took the extra time to add a theme to it. Maybe if I wasn't as into SciFi  as I am, I wouldn't have thought that much of it, but I am, so...

I love the challenge too. It's one of those games where you don't need difficulty settings, because you lose points based on time spent, and you can never end the game early by losing too many as far as I can tell. That makes it really easy to pick up and play for anyone!

The game it's self is one thing, but the level of detail put into the settings insured that there was a true degree of customization for the player. This is not just awesome to see from a player comfort PoV, but also from an accessibility PoVm, especially as it applies to the separate music/sound/speech volume sliders, and the font type. Just as commendable, because of how difficult it can be to get running properly, was the realtime screen reader readout option. The decision to add  a TTS fallback was a smart one though, to cover as many users as possible.

The instructions were comprehensive and well written, but I do wish that it had been specifically pointed out that one needs to hold down the key to properly hear the radar, rather than just pressing it. That confused me at first.

I am truly impressed with this game, and while I'm not sure it will make it into the top 10 do to it's lack of flashy gameplay, I think it deserves it based on the features alone. Really, despite how humble it is, this is one of the games that most exemplifies the spirit of the jam by really going the extra mile in important ways.

Okay so it wasn't just me then! At first I was scared to say anything because I thought maybe she wasn't trying to be annoying, but with all of the other humor touches, I really think she was. I guess the fact that I couldn't tell for sure if it was honest or over the top just proves that it was well done... LOL
She also has a fantastic recording setup it seems. And while I'm not dunking on VAs that don't, it was still a nice change for a jam.

An excellent entry! I would not be surprised if this game wins the whole thing, but I am certain it will make the top 3 for sure, and it's well deserved.

The sound design is very impressive from a quality point of view, fitting the game well and standing out nicely, but it also does a great job at prompting the player. The voice acting is really fun and seriously helps to put you there with the characters, giving them more unique attitudes. The music is nice, and it adds allot to the atmosphere!

I love that this is actually challenging, and doesn't try to hold your hand much. It really got my heart pumping and my whole attention focused, which I've only experienced a few times in blind game jams!

The tutorial does a great job at explaining things, and the game doesn't shy away from traditional RPG terms for our sake, which I find respectful.

I could take or leave the whole [quest to get your sight back] trope, but I've been blind for my whole life. People who haven't may have a different opinion. Either way, it doesn't bother me over much, and I like the fact that the awakening gives as well as taking. The metaphor there isn't perfect, but I appreciate the feeling behind it. It also serves to make the world more interesting, which is important when you don't have much time to tell your story.

The biggest trouble I had with the game was the target selection controls. I don't know if I was just doing something wrong or if there was some kind of lag, but I had a hell of a time getting it to work.

It was pretty difficult at times to tell when a target was behind me. Perhaps a significant pitch step or attenuation would help to indicate that?

I found the snakes quite difficult to pinpoint, maybe that's on purpose?

Ultimately, this game rocked! Everyone who worked on it should be seriously proud of what they put together. The fact that you managed to essentially take a piece of an RPG and make it accessible and enjoyable enough to be used as an example for other devs within a month is pretty damn commendable!

I love this game! The concept is the most fun part, with genuine strategy, randomization, and tension. It's an easy game to replay.
I like the strange atmosphere, and the sound effects, while not perfect, really fit well. Using different steps for the distance markers, the bell, and the clicks to indicate how much of an item you have are great examples of using audio cues effectively.

The voice acting definitely added to the experience, making the character feel real, especially when she finds supplies in the houses.

I'd like to have eating and hiding sounds, and I'd like it if some volume normalization was done. For instance, the tutorial voice line for the monsters is quite loud, as well as the monster deaths them selves.

I also feel that the walk speed should be changed to a different key, as it often seems to conflict with action keys. I know that detracts from the 1 button concept a bit, but it's probably the easiest solution.

Bottom line, I think you did an excellent job, and you deserve to be in the top 10 at the least!

A good job done by everyone on the team. Thank you for your effort!

This game was really excellent! One that I will be replaying long after the rating period ends. I can really tell that you took the jam seriously. I like the well thought out, high quality sound design and chill music. I like the funny voice script, the excellent [and well recorded] human voice acting, and the humor injected into the AI voices. I love the player comfort touches you added, like F as an alternate cup throwing key, Q to skip the tutorial and R to repeat a line, and that you took the time to make such a comprehensive help menu. This earns you a few cognitive accessibility points as well!

I do feel that some quiet background ambience would liven things up a bit, and some kind of reward for being fast would be cool too. As it stands, the game is quite forgiving, which is nice, but a harder mode with penalties for failure would be an exciting option to have. Saved progress would also be a nice to have, but it's not that important in a jam game. As well, more randomized customers would be interesting, though I understand why they show up as a progression ATM.

Thank you very much to everyone who worked on this game, you seriously kicked ass! And just sayin, if you decide to add to it a little and make it a paid game, I would absolutely buy it. Hell, I'd buy it in it's current state as well, if that was an option...

I'm curious, is P2D also planned to have accessibility features? Sounds interesting!

I want to thank everyone in the team who made the choice to prioritize accessibility for blind and low vision players in this game and continues to uphold that principal. A special shoutout goes to Souphase and HereToHelp for their UI work. Thank you so much guys! It really is appreciated. And I will now be able to suggest this game to other BVI players with zero reservations thanks to the updates. Making sure that as many players as possible can enjoy your game even when it takes extra work to implement is a kick ass [and smart] thing to do!

I am so incredibly impressed with the blind accessibility features of this game! It is one of the rare titles that truly makes me feel like I am having the most equitable experience possible. I can absolutely see you guys winning a GAConf award once the full title comes out, and it would be very well deserved!
Thank you for your thoughtfulness and hard work to make this a great experience for us. You've got allot of blind players really hyped up for the release now!

Hey don't worry about the late reply, as you can see I do that all the time my self.  Thanks so much for the work you put into the accessibility patches, I'm looking forward to checking them out for my self in the next update! 👍

Okay, I've figured it out, and it turns out that the issue is a completely different accessibility error.

I had custom names disabled via preferences, so keys were passing through to the game because the edit field wasn't available.  I must have enabled it at some point by accident, because the toggle for it isn't actually labeled.  I'm wondering if their are other settings in their with that issue as well?  Might be worth going through and checking to see that they are all available and togglable with voicing enabled just encase.

Thanks for the attention on this issue! ☺

I'm a fully blind player and I'm delighted to say that the "self voicing" and even better the "clipboard voicing" features built into Renpy work great with this game, except for two areas.

1.  I can't edit the name of my dragon.  Pressing keys to type just activates UI commands, and I can't press enter or space to put my cursor into the edit field because doing so progresses the story.

2. When choosing places to attack in my war room in act 3, the icons representing the various regions are only pictures with no text labels for the self voicing to read, so I have to randomly press enter on one of them, see what it says, go back, try to remember how many presses of the down arrow to do to find it again, and then pick it that way.

Still 90% accessible though, and I really do appreciate that!

Dude, that's awesome. I'm so happy for you!

Can I just say, as one of the blind players, I really appreciate you putting out a hotfix patch for the TTS errors in between the regular updates?
I know that accessibility is often considered an extra feature or a ?nice to have", so treating accessibility bugs with the same importance as any other makes disabled players feel equally valued.

Wow that's awesome! I'm really glad to hear it. And good luck on the voting... Only a few hours left to go! Personally, I'm 100% sure you'll place in at least the top 10, and you would deserve it, too. You might even make it to the top 5. Stiff competition this year though!

I hear you. But don't worry, you can always try again next year. I still think your concept is cool, and the music was awesome. Learning how to make stuff accessible for screen readers can be quite challenging at first.

This is an excellent idea with a somewhat lacking execution.

I love the format of placing instruments on an audio soundscape, and the setting is pretty cool too.

The sound design is of course excellent, and the voice you chose really fit the theme.

I wish the game used lower pitches to represent behind, especially for raindrops, drums, and south facing steps while turning. I know that screws up the soundscape a little bit, but it's really important IMO.

As with many others, I was not able to complete the last raindrop sadly.

The background ambience are gorgeous, but seem to include some raindrops them selves which can be misleading.

For some reason, when I pressed or held the WASD and space keys, I got a Windows sound. It's the one I usually get if trying to press a key that isn't available. I'm not sure why that happened here though... Maybe something to do with the Window's focus?

Though this game is mechanically quite simple, I still feel that it does a really good job of setting a scene. I was excited to see that comment on the game page about it being updated. I would love to see the game expanded, but either way, thank you very much for participating in the jam, and I really hope you come back again next year!

This is a neat concept, but without voiced menus or full keyboard access, this is not going to work well for the vast majority of blind people.

This is a neat concept, but without voiced menus or full keyboard access, this is not going to work well for the vast majority of blind people.

Definitely one of the best games in the jam, no question!

It's got a great, wacky concept and a charming character, trippy and unique sound design, and fun mechanics!

The controls are logical and I always appreciate the inclusion of controller support. We even get mouse support here on top of that.

We have plenty of volume options which is always helpful, and the TTS speed control is a very nice addition.

The game was a breeze to pick up and play with solid instructions on the itch page, and the point and click style interface was easy to use, especially with the addition of audio positioning on object labels.

I wish that the fuel put into the core would leave the room, and instead that the core would just say the amount of fuel loaded when tabbing over it, to cut down on clutter a bit.

I don't mind extraneous objects for flavor, but being able to filter them out would be nice for when you just need to get to the important items quickly.

Sometimes I wasn't able to leave a room until clearing my target, and I'm not exactly sure why.

At high speeds, the TTS tends to cut the start of words off and sound strange. I hope that maybe Screen Reader support could be added at some point.

I wish that there was a way to limit the maximum panning distance for people like me with some hearing damage. I know that's kind of an extra, but there are more of us than you might think, and it's more common as we age too.

I really enjoyed this game, and I can feel that it had allot of heart put into it. Thank you so much for participating in the jam, and I would love to see you back here next year! I'm excited to see what you might do. :)

I'd also be willing to pay for this game if it's expanded, and I doubt I'm the only one.

Wow! I'm really glad you got this one in on time to be rated, because it's one of the better submissions!

Works great with my screen reader, the controls are simple and understandable, and the included readme was appreciated.

The sounds are simple but easy to pick up on, and they create a nice atmosphere.

I really like that the gameplay gets more and more challenging as you go so that it doesn't feel too easy.

The shooting element is nerve wracking and exciting, while the endurance meter adds some strategy. The rewards you get at certain checkpoints are a great way to make the game more interesting from one playthrough to another.

Controller support is always appreciated, and so are volume options. So thanks for including those!

I wish that the game also worked with the JAWS Screen Reader, as it's also extremely popular.

In the readme it says A and D to move, but it seems I can't really move backwards.

Even at max endurance, monsters still seem faster than me. Either that, or they have a high range of attack. Maybe that's on purpose, but it would be kind of nice to have just a bit of room to reload my gun as long as I have near full endurance., as we die only in like 3 or 4 hits. I don't think that would be too much of an advantage, especially as it wouldn't last long.

The heartrate loop isn't seamless.

Thank you very much for participating! I really hope you come back again next year too. :) We're glad to have you.

I actually couldn't play the game, and had to instead rate it based on gameplay from the stream that PG13 Letsplays did.

I got this same error on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, even with my adblocker turned off, and even after trying in fullscreen.

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Please try updating or use a different browser.

Oooh good ideas! And totally understandable about the time crunch. I think this is a difficult game for sighted people who naturally aren't used to using their ears like this, and I don't want to exclude them so easier modes are totally a fine idea, but [and not to sound mean about it] but this is for blind gamers ultimately, not sighted ones.

Among those few blind people who do game, and the even fewer who play action games, generally we don't mind some challenge. Obviously there are blind newcomers as well, it's not just sighted people, but I've always felt that the default should be a more difficult game, with easier modes as an option, rather than the other way around. No shame to anyone who wants or needs those easier modes for any reason, but doing it the other way around can often give devs the wrong idea about our capabilities, or lead them to creating harder modes that aren't very inventive about how they make things more difficult, preferring to simply change some values rather than adding true complexity. Always easier to remove than to add IMO.

I like it!

Excellent sound design, logical controls with a great tutorial, a bit of writing to make things more interesting, and I enjoy the rhythm mechanic even if my tempo and memory is terrible. Also, bonus points for the ability to pause any time.

The biggest point in your favor though is that the game isn't overly easy. It gets complex pretty quickly, and honestly as a blind gamer, I'd rather lose at a game meant for me because of a skill issue than win easily any day.

Maybe this is unfair to a first time jam entrant, but any game with the word blind, darkness, sight, light ETC in it is just kind of annoying at this point. It's really overused. A game with a blind protagonist is much more annoying to me, but since you didn't do that here, I can hardly complain much.

We've had many of these bopit style press arrow to react games in the past and they are getting a bit old, but again that's hardly something that I can really hold against someone who doesn't know that, and at least your game used rhythm and had a steep difficulty curve which is more than I can say for most others in this genre.

I do wish that the game would penalize you for attacking too soon though (within reason).

If the game ever gets expanded, I hope that things get more complex. Maybe with the enemy countering and needing to be blocked in the middle of a set and you having to figure out where you left off, or adding the down arrow key to block in the middle as well, or making you hold the shift, control, or alt keys with the arrows to block elemental attacks from a wizard, putting you on the offensive instead and making them defend, making a hard mode where injuries carry over to the next fight, changing the block and strike sounds for different enemy weapons, letting you use a special attack after building up a meter, having a bard enemy who tries to confuse you with music of a different rhythm ETC.

A game like this is inherently kind of limited in scope do to not having free movement or equipment, but there are a few things you can do to spice it up a little.

Despite any criticisms I may have, this is a solid first time audiogame and I think you have a good chance of placing in the top 5, definitely the top 10 at least.

Thank you very much for lending your time and effort to our jam. It really does mean allot, and I'd love to see you back here again next year!

Oooh! The different tracks idea would be awesome indeed!

This game is pretty neat conceptually, but mechanically it could use some work.

The theme is interesting, and I really like that you took the time to sprinkle bits of lore and humor into a relatively simple game!

The controls are logical and the tutorial does a decent job explaining how the game works.

The music is catchy too!

The footstep sounds are unfortunately too quiet, so it is difficult to listen for them to stop in order to know when one is bumping a wall, which wastes time.

The phrasing in the tutorial is somewhat confusing, likely just do to a slight language difference.

When turning, the voice should just say the direction once and not again unless that same compass point is reached, so that the player can stay facing that direction without constantly hearing the voice. The pitch change is cool though, so please do keep that in.

Sometimes the gaps are very small and easy to miss.

The music track does not actually loop seamlessly.

The game over sound is a bit too loud I think.

Over all a pretty wacky and edgy game, which is fun. I really hope you come back again next year, because you definitely spiced up the jam with this one! 😄