Re: Lol Youtube commenters need to get a life
Back in 2010-12 Mitch.nu, a developer of independent games released two titles, first Archaeist, and second to hell with johnny.
Neither was accessible to blind gamers, however they were! accessible to pretty much everyone else.
You could customise literally every element of gameplay, from visuals, to controls, to even individual enemies.
In Archaeist for example, a scrolling shooter with strategic elements you could set the game's scrolling speed, how many lives you had, decide which enemies damaged you, how fast your bullets fired, whether the controls were three button, two button or one button, to what extent certain parts of the game with radiation damaged you etc.
The game even had all in game text spoken.
You could literally use the accessibility settings to make yourself completely invincible, with a super rapid firing gun
Both games also had ranks, achievements, and even a set of scoreboards which freely admitted that yes, they counted accessibility settings, although there were both general scoreboards, and specific scoreboards that mirrored what accessibility settings you had (this meant, depending upon how you customised the game, you could literally have your own scoreboard to yourself, but the developers didn't care, and neither apparently did the players).
I don't think anyone whatsoever actually complained at the fact that both games were pretty much built with cheat settings built in, most people on retroremakes were just dam impressed that the games were accessible to so many people, albeit that yes, it was sad that there wren't complete sound cues for all the in game objects.
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