Congrats on the great submission here 👏

At first, I was confused how this would be accessible, but then I opened the pathfinding menu, and honestly was blown away. This is clearly a thought out system that makes it easy to move and interact with the town! I thought it was super cool, and made it easy to get to all the characters.

I was playing on Mac OS X with VoiceOver, and actually didn't run into too many issues. I think the first bit of dialog was missing when talking with characters, but other than that, most everything seemed to work as expected.

Aside from that, I thought the music was great, and the sound effects were helpful. Even though it's not the game you originally set out to make, I think we all suffer from high aspirations at the start of the jam that we eventually have to scope down. I think as a fun little town exploration game this was pretty great.

Congrats again, and thanks for building and sharing something for the jam!

I just finished the game after talking with all the people in the town. I can see potential for this to be more developed, this seems like it could turn into some rpg or whatever you like to do. I do have some feedback to give, when i was in the town hall and entered the mayor's office, pathfinder got stuck on the table and couldn't get me to the mayor, i had to manually go around the table and then use pathfinder to find the mayor. And pathfinder tends to get stuck on tables i did notice. Also i use NVDA as my screen reader, it reads most of the text, but i noticed sometimes text doesn't get read like for example when i cycle between tabs to pathfind to  one of the options didn't get read at first and i  had to go one right and then back left to get that option read. When i talk to people the textboxes doesn't get read at first, and when i pathfind to either people or things like tables or doors they don't always gets read. So i think you could improve on a lot of things there. I did like the humor of the people you talked with, and i did enjoy the demo. So thanks for the submission.

Very cute game, love how everyone introduces themselves with their personalities. Such honest and self aware people in this town. Gave me some nostalgic gameboy pokemon vibes.

Without visuals it's a little hard to get around. Basically had to bump into everything to get the lay of the land. Some sort of sonar, pointer, or 'whats in my area' would have helped.

Wonderful game, great ambience, and great potential for a funny and cozy little game that you are known to bless us with.

It’s definitely a little bit of a bummer that there’s wasn’t enough time to polish the game. As I’m sure you know, at this point in development, it would be quite hard or impossible to play this with eyes closed, relying only on the sound cues and screen reader cues. The screen reader was also very buggy and the music also glitched. And I’m also sure this is meant to be fixed, but some things I would do to improve, besides these bugs, would be:

• Pathfinding letting me explore the whole town. Maybe each tab would be for a different area of the town (and I mean the area we’re at, not only what’s on-screen). Because when you’re blind, you’re not going to be able to see if your screen is showing new things or old things you’ve already seen.

• I would make each character/item read as a question mark when when they are really meant to be something puzzling. Otherwise I would label them as “Woman” or actually “Blonde woman”, or stuff like that. And when you meet her, it starts as “Blonde woman” but then as she presents herself, it becomes “Katherine”. Maybe I would do that. And when we approach her, I would like to see her name popping on top of her head (visually) and be read by the screen reader.

• I think it’s cool that you did the pathfinding; I might though try to give emmission sounds for each character, at least, and maybe even each house. For example, at the bar, maybe, you hear some music that’s coming from inside. I’m thinking of this because Talon was great with our game and he thought of this for it, even though we don’t have the sounds implemented yet. It strikes to me how helpful each thing having an emmission sound is, to navigate by sounds when your eyes are closed.

• I think it would be great to see the audiodescription displayed also in a text box, as we’re hearing it. As a sighted person, I didn’t always understand exactly what the screen was saying, because I’m a bit noober or the voice I use is not the best one. And I think that making that available would make the game richer for sighted players, as well. So I’d think about that as a plus.

• Announcing each place when we enter it, and announcing every thing we’re near to (like if I’m neat a door, it announcing that, or announcing ‘go to your garden/house’.

Now for the great things I want to highlight:

• I know this writing must have been done with a bit of a rush. But I love the vibes of your game, and how each character is unique. You are great as a game designer and writer.

• I love that we also got to talk with the messenger kid and reply to him. I like that you still had time to implement a dialogue system.

• I love that there are audiodescriptions, and some made me laugh - I remember the septuplets house. Hearing that the kids were standing up in a perfect line just hits differently, and very funnily. And some audiodescriptions were really well done and brought things to life, even things that may have had art to them, when you hear the description, things become more real. Like, the bread maker and the tool maker and the setting behind them with the grains and stuff. This is a great proof that audiodescription is also for sighted people and also helps enrich a lot a game that with or without fancy art, can just become so much more alive.

• The music is beautiful, I love it, I don’t even know what else I can say about. It’s great composition and fits the world and game perfectly.

Lastly, I’m going to say I really hope you continue this game, or other games like your great ones, with these learnings in mind, because I felt very hearwarmed about it, and I love the concept and demo. You are great. I love your games and I would love to see this grow and become a blind-accessible narrative RPG. The next “Undertale” (as in, cozy vibes, awesome narrative, great game, but - different from it - blind-accessible!!). Keep up the excellent work. I want to see more.

I got stuck in the dialog with Tristen. It even lets me walk away but it continues cycling through the lines. Even when I reach another character, it still just keeps cycling that dialog.

Not sure how playable this would be by sound alone. Other than the pathfinder, there's no help navigating the town.