Hello,
Wow, I'll definitly be checking it out, I know that there were lots of people excited about silversword, and they now have a reason to be excited again because it's happened and become accessible!

Hi there.

I don't think this has enough accessibility improvements to make it playable. Although it does announce if moving forward is possible, and what is blocking your way, there's no way of moving around the map efficiently. I spent a good amount of time bumping around, running into mobs, and killing stuff. The combat screens move too quickly to comprehend what is going on. I have no idea what all of my party was doing or how much damage they landed, I just know I won. There's no coordinate system that I could find either.

The menus are accessible and you can interact with the game fine in this regard, but otherwise it's still a game of ping ponging around until you find the right location. I'm happy progress is being made, but I'd still say it's not accessible enough to play easily. I could have missed some critical detail though, so please let me know if there are additional accessibility features I had disabled or missed.

Still the problem with combat. Doesn't actually read anything while in combat.

Hello.
Maybe we should try making the developer aware of this forum.
If he is on here too, maybe we could give him more detailed info on what we need to play the game in an efficient way.
Greetings Moritz.

If the developer has actually stuck in coordinates that is awesome! I looked over this game way back when, and the only really major problem was absolutely no ability to know where you were, whether you'd been there before or what was going on.
I was able to read all the menus and inventories and even change my party around (for all that the tap and drag method with characters got a bit wiffy), I was able to succeed in a combat by slowing down the text delay and having vo read incoming attack messages, however the lack of navigation features meant that practically going anywhere was near impossible, and unfortunately last I checked with the developer this wasn't going to be fixed, however if as you said a magic tap coordinates function has been added that is amazing!

I won't be able to try this today, but I'll look over it tomorrow and see what I can find (it's going to be nice to get my money's worth from buying the game).

That's rather surprising given how indifferent he made out to be.

I'm going to be honest. The navigation thing isn't a problem for me. It'd just be super nice to have combat read automatically instead of me swiping to the right like a mad man hoping to get to the right spot.

Dark, you won't get any luck even with the magic tap implemented to the game

I've found that there is a nack to the navigation. I've learned to notice features to use them to orientate myself when heading in new directions, particularly on maps where I've spent a lot of time. The thing with this game is that it is a very big one so you have to commit to it. It's not quick and it's not easy so you'll probably not enjoy it if that's what you're looking for.

The coordinates are definitely read with the two-finger double tap and they are useful to check if you're stumbling around the same bit of the map or heading in a new direction. Everyone learns Swamp coordinates for the purposes of avoiding obstacles so this doesn't seem that different to me. Still, each to their own, I suppose.

There is a log but it seems more of a general log of your progress through the game than a specific combat review option. It would be good if I could get Voiceover to announce the scrolling battle text though. Does anyone know if there are Voiceover controls to make text read automatically?

I've tried it, but the moving around part is just plain difficult. I've beaten my first battle, without knowing much of what happened, and now I just stumble around. I really wish there was a way to know what's around the characters, like places or whatever.

Hi guys, saw the link posted in the silversword forums to read what you had to say. As a sighted fan I can say navigation isn't always easy for me either. Mario has stated that it is in part intentional due to his fond memories of Bard's Tale and memorizing keystrokes for travel. Some of his first maps are visually ugly, so your not missing anything there, but unfortuately for all of us with some difficulty the later maps prettiness has nothing to do with them being easier to navigate, but at least there are somewhat better travel options by then.

Personally I find counting strokes before turns helps me, maybe with that and the coordinate system may help a few more. Long travel is supported thru two methods in the base game and a third in the current expansion already. Road wardens at a few select but key locals, and high level spells, a base game character and an expansion character (Dragon Callers are available with the expansion only after the base game is defeated with their powerful teleport spell). The start of the game requires all movement by simple extended exploring though.

If Mario's last stated plans for the next expansion hold, you will be able to destroy many obstacles in the future...

The current expansion content (extra maps, alchemy, thief mastery and additional items) becomes open after a good way thru the base game, but largely can be explored well before beating it if purchased- just to clarify.

Finally, combat messages are less important the more you play... Review your character health between rounds as welshweyr aka seeing eye dragon? said and you should be able to get by. The game seems tailor built for experimentation more than imediate succes. For example, not all player party make-ups are equal, certainly not in all locals of the game, so having up to 25 player made characters possible, with up to seven fielded at a time allows a lot. You will need a mage for group damage at times if you don't want a hyper long grind and leveling, and a thief at least the second time thru a dungeon - to open magic resistant chests - at some point to progress.

Well I've downloaded the game and given it an initial look.
First as regards navigation. This coordinates system is exactly what I suggested to Mario originally and what I've wanted all along, it's  wonderful and Mario definitely deserves thanks for including it in the game, indeed I may well drop him an e-mail myself saying so.

To those who are having difficulty, well to be honest my comment would be "get used to it!" similar systems are used in very many games, from real time ones like Swamp and Shades of doom, (galaxy ranger from vip games zone uses them a lot), to web based ones like Gothador, Crimson moon and Sryth, (grendel's cave even has them), so they're something to get used to if you want to play many games.

Myself, I check the coordinates every move which lets me keep track of where I am and what the exits are. For example, I now know my character party starts at 1-3, and the first fight in the armory is at 3-19, right in the bottom left.

The only other thing to remember is that in silver sword the coordinates seem to go top down rather than bottom up, so 1-1 is at the top left hand corner of the map, while 10-10 would be at the bottom right, rather than as is more usual having the ascending coordinates go up from the bottom. Then again I suppose that'd mean your characters starting at 1-20 or something which could be confusing .
So from me, the coordinates are a major success! (I particularly like how your told the exits, that is very helpful in keeping in mind where your going).

As to combat, I first set my text delay to zero 
have done the first battle with the rats, unfortunately i think I missed a message there which was annoying sinse I set my mage to cast a spell and wanted to see if it worked or not, but sinse I have only been in one fight thus far I can't say whether me missing the messages was a problem with the game specifically, or was due to me just not looking in the correct place, though I will say either having a log of the previous round to review or a "continue" button on the text as apposed to real time scrolling would be nice sinse then you'd not need to worry about auto speaking and could read at your own pace, wich might well be necessary given combat rounds will doubtless get rather complex with 7 party members and goodness knows how many enemies.

Btw, if someone can tell me where to go for another fight that would help. I'm not playing the game seriously right now so much as just checking the access, when I play properly I'll restart, read the manual (and likely buy the various improvements), but I want to check everything is working first, especially because if indeed (as seems the case), silver sword is now accessible I'm going to want to create some news and let people in the audio games community know about it.

Oh, and also I recall hearing about some real time colour lock puzzles in the game, does anyone know what has happened with those in terms of access?