Sorry, but this isn't a rhythm game, its hitting keyboard buttons over 30 seconds of a song unrhythmatically.

I'm sorry but the timing is off by quite a bit for me, it read out the letters very late as the tutorial is still being read when the letters appear. I couldn't play it I'm afraid.

I … wasn’t even able to get past the medium stage of the tutorial. Not even with simplified controls enabled.

Granted, given that I am generally terrible at rhythm games, that is more likely to be a skill issue than a game issue. Especially since I didn’t do that much better even when picking a slow song from my library instead. But goodness, that’s one fast medium tutorial!

Because of this, I don’t feel like I can judge the game entirely fairly. It seems like a neat concept though. You might just wish to pick different sounds, as some are less recogniseable and easy-to-hear than others, and the sound associated with the letter d has a very noticeable silence before it plays.

I also accidentally changed the starting song speed by accident. I tried to set it back to exactly 1.0, but couldn’t, and kept getting 1.8 instead.

I love the concept of being able to pick any music I have an play guitar hero with it. I do think this has ways to improve, and I really want to see that, because the idea is grand.

Some things I faced that weren’t working so well:

1. When I start a song, it likes to read me a bunch of specs which are being read at the same time and over the song and the inputs I should be pressing. This always makes the start of the song difficult and steps me up for never being able to achieve 100% accuracy.

2. Hearing A, S, D, F doesn’t feel like the rightest way to do it, for some reason, but maybe I’m just not used to it, or it’s because it’s speaking not in tune with the song. It’s something to explore, though unfortunately I don’t have any explicit solution or suggestion to give. Maybe splitting up what each note does?

3. I think it’s always hard for me, as a sighted person, to understand the timing and cues of playing a blind-accessible rythm game. I was doing much better looking at it, and even more importantly, it felt better also. I wonder if making this controller accessible would help, because maybe the vibration would be less intrusive than hearing the guy talk?

4. I would love this to have easier modes (with less buttons to click). And maybe even instrument modes. Where I can choose to play with a specific instrument. Maybe we could start with a drum. But like, it’s important to keep things in tune, so this is quite tricky. I would love to see this become more musical, more enjoyable and intuitive musically, but - it’s just not there yet for me? I admit that I am at a big disadvantage for being a sighted person, but the bit about even playing without a screenreader and matching the boops in time, the boops are not playing in tune, so it doesn’t feel as melodic as I would wish it to be.

5. It’d be nice to see how long the song is when we are choosing what to play. Also, to know the difficulty and all the specs before we actually start playing.

So I would like to recommend you to play Bits and Bops and Rythm Doctor, which I know are two very acclaimed rythm-maded blind-accessible games. I haven’t played either, but I think they are good examples to look at and they might give interesting ideas for improving this game.

I really love the concept and I enjoyed a lot trying to play to a music I chose, and set up myself, (Toby’s music for Where the Wind Sings), which is beautiful, so I was getting emotional. So do please explore this more. I want to see updates and improvements. I hope this helps in that journey.

VOD for a few days: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2718827191

Nice submission!

I don’t have a lot of normal music on my computer, so it was really unique experience of plugging in a variety of things from ambient and jazz to grindcore and metalcore. The most consistent ones were obviously those with not a lot of moving parts and unchanging time signatures played to a click track. Because that’s typically more popular music with loud production, it would have been nice to have a slider to reduce the music volume.

I did manage to clear a few at lower difficulties with the visuals turned on, and observing the patterns along with the music had me very curious about what’s going on behind the scenes, but I don’t know how possible it would be for me without seeing the screen.

Did you have a good track for testing while developing this? Maybe something royalty-free to include with the download?