#blind gamers

[unbfacts]

In the 1990s, game designer Kenji Eno learned of blind fans who played his visually rich games with great effort. In response, he created "Real Sound: Kaze no Regret," an audio-based game accessible to both sighted and blind players. He partnered with Sega to donate 1,000 Sega Saturn consoles with the game to blind individuals, promoting inclusivity in gaming.

[clownsuu]

Mini apology doodle since I didn’t post yesterday 😔🥄🥄

[swagglessmoth]

The Hatake: the clan of the crafting table or smth

DAMN I FORGOT TO TAG THE AUTHOR

@pestoast ⬅️⬅️THANK YOU FOR THE FIC 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

[gemwing1988]

Pretty much me when pulled into the story, gameplay and music of a very good game like Pokémon, Disney Dreamlight Valley or even Ori and the Blind Forest.

[cursed-ever-to-wander]

I am taking Miquella and putting his ass back into timeout cocoon

[jademaomi]

lapsed stem major who seethes impotently every time they call Love Is Blind an "experiment" bc they use a cherry-picked sample, no control group, and no statistical analysis, and it's probably not even peer-reviewed

[sl33py-g4m3r]

got a couple questions~~~ and a complaint~~~ I do hate to complain tho....

been seeing ads for a game on youtube and I got a couple questions~~

is "hello kitty island adventure" good?

it looks adorable~~~

but is it good?

is the text readable in handheld mode or will I have to play it on the TV?

is it worth the money for what you get?

It's adorable and was in a list of cozy games so thought about it~~ looked up the trailer on the switch e-shop and NONE OF THE TRAILERS SHOWED ANY TEXT AT ALL~~~!!

i need to know if I can READ THE GAME~~~~~ so wish trailers would show text cause I don't want to be out like 40-60 bucks just cause I CAN'T READ THE GAME~~~~

the interfaces and things for games are either really small to begin with or it's an RPG with a lot of text that my blind butt can't read..... and every time it feels kind of like (to me at least) i'm being pushed inadvertently out of a hobby I used to love.... and as such don't game very much anymore.....

yet I can hopefully play and still beat phantasmagoria of dimensional dream~~ so maybe I'm letting myself be held back for no reason.... also played pokemon white when it was released even tho I couldn't read it cause I imported it, lol.....

so maybe I'm being stupid and letting my disability hold me back for no reason? idk.... overthinking go brrrrr

any good cozy games with interfaces I might actually be able to see and read???

*disappears into the ether*

[glngrbred]

There is something wrong with gamers. They made a new quiet place game, and the main character is pregnant and has asthma. Now, Any reasonable person should be able to think about A QUIET PLACE and realize that having asthma is a GAMEPLAY FEATURE they designed FOR GAMEPLAY!!! Like, remember the Amnesia series?

(tangent) Amnesia Rebirth is an entire game where all of the horror is built around that concept from bloodborne where a woman is impregnated (against her will) and is giving birth to a demon basically. also the demon is in her body so shes like possessed and shit. COOL! Pregnancy is amazing for horror!!!!

Asthma? AMAZING for horror where you have to be quiet. it is game design MAGIC and is so cool! they managed to turn their difficulty feature into a diagetic and logical system. like, needing to find refuels for your inhaler is just automatically going to succeed in making scrambling stressful scenarios that will have you shitting the bed.

Remember Amnesia: the bunker? the famously increadable design forces you to put yourself in time scrambles where you know you'll run out of light, you know you need more rations, and you know you're almost out of fuel. Just to EMULATE that franticness and the FLUIDITY and rapid pace of gameplay is an acheivment.

Especially with the rigidity of A quiet place's near parallel world, you can't add too many fantasy elements outside of the apocolypse and the monsters (shreikers?) so turning corruption/insanity/fuel/ammo into Inhalers turns those fantastical, hard to explain systems into something so Inherently realistic and basic, that anyone who picks up the game will be able to understand the objective. V VV You have to breathe -> rasping will get you killed -> use your inhaler-> Uh oh ur out of charges -> you have to go on an adventure and find more -> that means you have to go on a crazy mad dash avoiding making sound and a single error will get you killed -> your getting closed in on OH FUCK THER IT IS -> take your inhaler -> you survived! NOW YOU HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN What did every youtube comentary slop farm say? OMG? a PREGNAT WOMAN WITH ASTHMA?? thats so UNREALISTIC. SHe would die IMMIDIATELY. Fucking forced diversity! I want to have microphone integration and play as a white guy WAHHHHHHHH!!! I can't critically think for 2 seconds and realise that this game is designed to be realistic, and be a similar experience for all players and alsot to avoid metagaming by just fucking MUTING your mikE. Like they solved a fundamental flaw with an Audio based horror game in such an elegant and story driven way. They aren't even trying to get diversity points. its purely for story and gameplay.

[razzek]

Things I’ve learned today:

A closeout is more than a sale but only if you write it in all caps bracketed by other all caps words

Blind people can’t take screenshots. It doesn’t matter how often they say they’re blind and couldn’t access your site, only competent sighted people take screenshots!

[go-go-devil]

💀💀💀💀 I BEAT GRAVELORD NITO ON MY FIRST TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💀💀💀💀

[clairedelune-13]

I don’t understand this “Secret Ending” thing.

WHAT FUCKING SECRET ENDING?

Apparently, it comes from symbols that you find in each area.

But since this game is horribly ableist and does not make it easy for people with visual impairments, I guess I’m never finding these symbols because I can’t fucking see them.

I literally fucking can’t see a lot of shit in this game because the accessibility is nonexistent.

Bioware didn’t give two shits about people like me.

So that means I’m missing content because I can’t see it.

Thanks for sticking to the status quo and pretending like the blind community doesn’t exist. 

At least CDPR added a Color Blind Friendly Mode. Can you say the same, Bioware?

Because it’s not like we struggle on a day to day basis, what with being forgotten by the world because nobody thinks of disabled people - still - and the fact that we play video games too. 

[oldbutchdanielcraig]

masters of sex blu ray dvd box set arriving to my house today between 12:45 pm and 4:45 pm. this is fine

[dr-cll-emlon]

1 or 2 years later and I unintentionally framed a Gamer Angel scene EXACTLY the same way as I did in Blinded S2 Episode 16. Different context but like... damn XD

[gay-valkyries]

Mentally putting the bg3 gang in the love is blind pods..... you know shart would pull a jessica....

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[fanficfish]

spoilers about the last bits of the 1.0 Xianzhou Loufu storyline (HSR as a partly-blind gamer)

you have been warned

ok ok ok so i just finished this and omg

(also we're gonna ignore the....errand running i guess. I have my thoughts on it, and I'm not completely "yeeaahhhh awesome!!!" but at the same time it does give a lot of context to some parts of the main story. It's less of a drag if you do it all in one go or you do it in parts, by the way. I see it like the Dan Heng storyline- you could do it, or not, but it really helps if you do it because it's kinda cool)

okay first off- I love that we got a disabled person as a villain. Uuslaly those kinds of characters get put to the side as a kind of token character or they're the hero. Dan Shu, a blind Xianzhou Loufu native, as a villain? I'll take it. Plus, she became chief alchemist. Bonus points.

anyways moving on

dan shu is just really interesting to me. I just finished that part of the story (i took the medicine. I tried not to but I misclicked. Natasha's lesson about "don't take weird medicine" didn't stick I guess). But anywyas, her outlook on life is kind of interesting, and I'm rambling but I'll sort my thoughts out at some point. Maybe. I was an idiot and didn't record the whoie thing so I"m going off memory here.

but anyways

dan shu's talk with the little girl. I kinda feel her- she's trying to make her way through life (impressive that she's able to run around the place by herself by the way, and also let's not think about the whole "girl went to the freaking Commission right after we left it having just defeated a crazy deer" thing). On one hand I get dan shu's point. You do have to rely on yourself a bit, especially if you want to achieve certain goals. But at the same time, having company along your journey is a good thing- because yes, there wil lbe times where you can't depend on yourself alone. Which is what we kind of see with Dan Heng. He was running for years, and it's only with the Express that he really gets to sit down, breathe, and start making those connections that make life worthwhile. Also screw those idiot kids, someone tell that third kid that didn't play alogn with the cheating comment that they need better friends.

and then dan shu's search for a cure, a cure that eventually wouldn't work. Imagine how painful it would be have no sight for your entire life, then get sight, and then have it ripped from year a few years, maybe months, later. I had an opposite experience- had some sight, lost it, then regained a little- but it's definitely a change. I can't explain it, but it's like finding out that you're colorblind and trying colorblind glasses for the first time, or finding out that you needed glasses. That's the closest I can get to describing it. THen imagine those glasses are ripped from you. It's hard to go back, even if it's familiar.

and dan shu has a right to be angry. she's descriminated against in a place where not being perfect is a problem- look at all those stairs, those who aren't able-bodied must have a nightmare of a time. she has a right to want a cure, to have her views. She's not right to give out weird medicine, but I guess the rage had to go somewhere....

and that's really all the thoughts I have at the moment. this probably seems all over the place and rambly but i'm still getting it through my mind. but seriously, love the little shot ot acknowledging the unspoken in the social hierarchy from Mihoyo. Really epic to see that in my new favorite game!

(Also, yes- i am visually impaired. Let's jsut say Genshin is....a bit of a struggle when it comes to combat , haha-)