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The Silent Age - time travel game available on PC, smartphone, tablet, Mac)
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AWESOME!I can't wait to check this out.
Just hoping it's compatible with the VoiceOver screen reader.
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I can't wait to check this out.
Just hoping it's compatible with the VoiceOver screen reader."
That's a wonderful aid tool. I take it works by whereever you move the mouse or your finger tip, it announces the object you hover over. Very cool, I hope the game is compatible. My fingers are crossed!
Yeah, VoiceOver reads the text on the screen, and you use specific gestures to interact with whatever is there. It is amazing! :-)
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Indie low budget developers (who are the mainly the ones that make point and click adventures) may find it understandably hard to invest programming resources to make their games VoiceOver compatible. But then again they would gain a lot more customers in the considerably large visually impaired community, if they do make their games compatible.
There are a LOT more games than there used to be, but you're right, the list is still fairly small.The developers who have made their games accessible have found the visually impaired community to be a loyal and supportive customer base. We get excited about our games! :-)
One of the biggest problems though, is that a lot of sighted people just don't consider that blind people would like to play games on their phones. It's not anything condescending or intentional. It just never occurred to them. That's what we've heard from a few developers anyway.
So hopefully, as more dialogue about accessibility makes it into the mainstream, we will se more and more accessible games.
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The developers who have made their games accessible have found the visually impaired community to..."
Amen to disability awareness Jena! Just simple oversight and not considering a wider audience that would benefit from good old fashioned game play.
Computers have done wonders for the disabled, why not include with the other benefits recreational gaming.
The Silent Age
Its available on all formats, Steam, Android phone/tablet, Iphone/IPad and Mac at the following links:
Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/352...
Google Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-s...
I played it on a mobile phone as the game is not a big production game. Its very much in the mould of Lost Echo which I gave my thoughts on in another thread in this section.
Its enjoyable and puzzle solving is great fun as it demands you to time travel to gain resources by creating cause and effects. Sweet!
The story is interesting and structured as a mystery. This is not a sophisticated graphical adventure populated with actors and performances such as Cognition or Life is Strange etc. Characterisation is very limited and quite bland but the story is fun sci fi stuff. It feels like a game suited to the mobile platform.
If you play it on a PC, the game will cost you £6.99 which i think is about $9-10, but if you play it on smartphone or tablet, its in two parts where the first part is free to play and to finish off the second part you pay just £3.99 which is about $5-6. So much cheaper to play on your smartphone. And of course half way through the game, you can decide whether you like it enough to actually pay anything for it at all.
I give it a 7/10