Havin' A Swatch At: Procemon (Not blind playable yet but could be)
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Get it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2058380/Procemon_You_Must_Catch_Them/
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To make any game blind-playable, it must have a way for the blind person to control it (usually controller support) and a means to tell the blind person what is on the screen be it through sound cues, text reading, or other means and methods. The dev has expressed an interest in how blind playable Procemon is so I will be approaching this review thus:
From the dev: "I too am curious if it's playable! The underlying renderer doesn't really have text; the text in the game is immediately converted to pixels and rendered to the display window. There could feasibly be a way to pipe the text elsewhere before it's rendered. But the game doesn't do that."
For blind people, what this means is if it IS playable, it'll be OCR-playable unless her and I can brainstorm a solution involving a message log or auto-reader ala Siralim Access. Which is possible, technically, but probably too big a pain in the butt to implement. That being said, if the dev knows blind people will want her game, anything's possible.
+ Full controller support
+ Readable (if pixelated) font. OCR... SHOULD be ok with it.
- No menu highlight sounds (for example, moving up and down the menu should have a little ping.)
- No way to separate the music volume from the sound effects. Music is too loud. Sound is too quiet
- No movement sounds (a simple sound for movement and a seperate sound for when you bump into something was all Siralim Ultimate needed to become blind playable with OCR. Implementing this should take top priority along with the menu highlight sounds.)
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