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I love doing game jams like this so super excited and 100% going to be submitting! 

Oh I forgot I never ported in the code for my NDVDA screen reader into this game! I need to do that. 

Hey! I'm an admin for the games for blind gamers game jam 4 and wanted to let you know we are doing another one! Also so cool that it recently got an update! Hope you keep working on it!

Hi everyone!

The fourth iteration of a game jam all about accessibility is now open for registration, a month long jam about creating blind accessible games that starts in February! The page was just created today, so if you want to join a team they are just starting to form so you have plenty of time! 

Sign up here!

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-4

Over the last 3 iterations we as a community have created over 70 blind accessible video games, and we would love if you all signed up and helped make this the most successful jam yet!

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3/entries 
https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-2/entries 
https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers/entries

Never considered making a blind accessible game? Join the discord linked in the jam pages, where not only do we have accessibility veterans, but blind community members who are happy to help people putting in the effort to make more accessible games.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you sign up to Help make gaming accessible for all! 

Hello! Yes, still working on it. Slow and steady, but still on going. I got a little caught in the weeds on implementation, but I'm not giving up and coding is still happening weekly.

I have a discord where people are able to leave their thoughts and give feedback, or message me directly! 

https://discord.gg/X48VgMWd

Oh I'm sorry to hear that! I thought I had that working! Thank you for playing, I'm trying to fix all the TTS issues. 

I'm sorry I can't get the error to happen! If you get the error again, could you take a screen shot of it, then send it to me on discord? I'm in the games for blind gamer discord. I understand if your PC isn't set up for screenshots though, so will keep trying to figure out the error either way! 

Oh I'm so sorry to hear that! I'll check why save files are failing! Thank you for playing! 

I'm so sorry to hear that! I thought I fixed that, I'll look into it right away. 

Oh no, what happens? 

Oh it's been forever Mayana!
I'm glad you liked it! I'm really happy with the game play loop, so I plan to fix a lot of the bugs. Game jam things where I ran out of time to fix things. 

As for keys, yeah I'm thinking I'll switch to Ctrl = cancel, space = accept, then WASD/Arrow keys for movement. 

I'll look into all these issues and see what I can do! Thanks for playing! 

Yes! I'm taking a small break because I'm participating in a game jam about making blind accessible games, but updates are kind of paused as I'm doing a massive rework making it in python so it is even more accessible. But work is still being done! Just a slow process. 

Thank you for the kind words!

So I got a lot done because I stole large parts from old failed projects (my itch.io profile is a graveyard of half completed turn based RPGs). But it led to a lot of weirdness that you experienced, because I was stitching stuff together. 

I had a wonderful team mate help with music and it all around turned out super nice!

Those are a lot of issues I didn't even consider because I'm sighted, so I'll for sure revamp the inventory, monster selecting, and shrines! I'm glad you have fun, and I'll for sure let you know once things are even more accessible and balanced! 

Oh I'm sorry to hear you ran into so many issues! I stole code from previous projects, and it led to a bit of a frakenstein.

But I'm so happy to hear you managed to have fun! Thank you so much for your feedback! I'm going to go through and try to fix all of it over next month! 

If you go to edit your game then "meta data" then scroll down to "Accessibility " it looks like you have blind accessibility tagged there. 

Hi, when I try to open the game it doesn't do anything.

Also this is tagged as blind accessible, but the screen shots make it look like it might not be.

Make sure to join the discord if you haven't! Lots of discussion about forming teams/ideas going on there. 

Hello! Just letting you know the third jam has been announced and would love if you participated again since your entry was so amazing! 

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3

Hello! Just letting you know the third jam has been announced and would love if you participated again since your entry was so amazing! 

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3

Hello! Just letting you know the third jam has been announced and would love if you participated again since your entry was so amazing! 

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3

Hello! Just letting you know the third jam has been announced and would love if you participated again since your entry was so amazing! 

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3

Hello! Just letting you know the third jam has been announced and would love if you participated again since your entry was so amazing! 

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3

Hello! Just letting you know the third jam has been announced and would love if you participated again since your entry was so amazing! 

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3

Hello! Just letting you know the third jam has been announced and would love if you participated again since your entry was so amazing! 

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3

Hello! Just letting you know the third jam has been announced and would love if you participated again since your entry was so amazing! 

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3

Hello! Just letting you know the third jam has been announced and would love if you participated again since your entry was so amazing! 

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3

Sorry to hear that, are you on windows and do you have .netframework 7 installed? 

Oh thank you! Hopefully you were able to get a good distance in it! 

Cool! Now just get it 21 more times! You can do it!

So the narrator uses the built in windows TTS (called SAPI) if you don't have a screen reader like NVDA open.

So for whatever reason the two decided they were pointing different places. Which is funny and not something I've heard of, but they are two different applications technically, so totally possible. 

Thank you for the kind words!

You can always make your own levels XD

But yeah I'm thinking I'm going to work on it more and make it have more features.

Then despite being bad at the game, you understand :D

You can cheat by looking at the map in the game files if you like, or you can even edit them to add more platforms.

But yeah audio games take some getting used to. Despite playing a decent amount their are certain games I've tried to play where my ears just refuse to make sense of all the information. I don't even dare try to play any of the audio game FPS games, cause I'd get farmed. 

When in doubt, object to everything, and present everything to everyone :D

Fantastic animations all around.

Well done! The charge mechanic felt really good, and the game was much easier once I figured it out tbh. 

Good job! Much trash, many butts, and the diaper level was disgusting.

Art also went hard compared to everything else, so very pompous. 

The voices are really fun, the controls are perfectly annoyingly floating for trash!

Game soft locks if your opponent runs out of money.

Big stank.

Love the insults, took me far too long we were just playing poker.

Oh thank you! I actually was making changes like right before submission so I didn't have anyone else test, so I kind of just went off of feel on if the audio queues were good enough.

I've made a decent handful of audio games, so I have an "ok" sense of that... but some still missed the mark terribly. So if you got through that's great to hear! 

This has some STINK and STANK.

How do you achieve such levels of stink and stank??