Florian

During this year's "Games for blind gamers" jam on #itchIO, a #game was submitted that tried to accurately portray a #blind protagonist. This game was developed by a developer who is not blind, but believed to have done adequate research into this. Some people did not agree and came down on them rather hard, but I saw an opportunity.
In this video I break down what was represented well, what wasn't, and we get into some really interesting #blindness and #disability topics along the way. Hopefully it might teach a thing or two :) https://youtu.be/qE81d4Pcw9E

#disability #disabilities #blindness #representation #indieGames #gaming #youtube #selfPromo

Blind Gamer Reacts to Blind Protagonist in Cane & Able: Accurate or Not?

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Apr 11 at 9:25amWeb
Show threadRobert Kingett23h ago
I really liked your video on the subject and honestly I really loved the game, too! I played the game twice, once as the sassy disabled person and another way the other time, but really fantastic video! @zersiax
Show threadMatt Campbell23h ago
@zersiax Thank you for mentioning the part about needing a handrail on stairs. Me too, and I have some usable vision. My orientation and mobility teacher (a sighted man) tried to teach me to do stairs without the handrail. One time when I was in high school, he told me that he had a blind student who was much younger than me, like 8 years old, who could do stairs much faster than me. Not sure that was helpful.
Show threadMatt Campbell21h ago
@zersiax About the whole "inspiring blind person" thing, one time I was at a new karaoke bar; my friend had brought me there. I was doing my first song, one of my usual songs that I had done several times by then. Found out the next day, via the friend that brought me there, that a young man had posted a video of me singing on Facebook, complete with commentary about how I was inspiring because I was blind and rocking out. In fact, that wasn't a particularly strong performance of that song.
Show threadCleverson21h ago
@matt @zersiax Honestly, I don't bother. Would it have been better for that man to continue thinking that blind people couldn't even sing? Now he at least know better than nothing.
Show threadMatt Campbell21h ago
@clv1 @zersiax Oh, I didn't say anything to him. I did express my annoyance to my friend though.
Show threadTimothy Wynn16h ago
@zersiax I'm curious if there's a way for you to submit feedback to the dev, so they can at least feel that not everyone is being hostile? You can also link the video if they wanted longer-form feedback.
Show threadFlorian15h ago
@twynn I spoke to them over email first to ask for permission to use his content and essentially explained that viewpoint as well, he actually took it down but put it back up for me to make this so he's aware, thankfully :)
Show threadTimothy Wynn15h ago
@zersiax Oh I am glad. I didn't find anything off about the game, but I'm not easily offended, and it's just a hodgepodge of various strategies used to navigate and interact with the inaccessible world around you. I thought it was a neat concept.
Show threadSean | Ginsenshi The blindwolf12h ago
@zersiax I kinda wanna play this and hopefully not Laugh.