Hello there. It's cool to hear about your project. Have you heard about the Papa Sangre games? I think they are no longer on the app store, but those games from a few years ago were amazing and very much like what you are trying to do. Papa Sangre 2 was as well done of an audio games as I have ever heard of. I just thought I would mention these games in case they might offer more ideas for you. I am not sure what platforms your game runs on, but you might try www.applevis.com for feedback if your game runs on apple products. I believe www.audiogames.net might be another place to check out.

Good luck

Hi. First of all it’s great that you’re making an accessible game. A few thoughts that come to mind...being visually impaired doesn’t always mean being completely blind. So having some bright, large visual components would make the game enticing to more people. Of course it should be playable for people without sight as well. Also, people with disabilities use technology A LOT so it’s definitely not true that ‘blind people have no use for a mouse.’ If you could make text accessible with screen readers you could maybe add more depth to the game.

That being said, I wish more game developers would put more thought into accessibility so thank you for doing that. I have a lot of info about accessibility for people who are visually impaired so feel free to PM me.

I'm not blind, so I really don't think I can say much on accessibility, but I think this is a very great idea and the methods you've come up with to solve directional issues and make it easier for the player to get around are ingenious. I can't wait to see where this concept goes. Once I got the hang of the controls, the only issues I really had with the game was differentiating the first and second tier in echolocation, and the whole turning thing. I'm still not able to tell whether turning allow you to face diagonal or if it's set on the coordinates (as in you can only face immediate north, south, east and west, which would make sense given you can't move diagonal), so that's a bit tricky. Nonetheless, I loved the game and look forward to (hopefully) seeing it all done in the future!

Oy, that was not very intuitive, if I'm to be honest. IMO, it was too much to keep track of in order to do something as simple as turning. With that being said though, it's still a really creative idea. Perhaps you can let us know what game you're trying to make and maybe I can give suggestions?