Look at breed memorial. When you are approaching any obstacles that you need to jump over, there are three ascending tones. These tones warn you and tell you how far away you are from the obstacle. You should also look at the radar system in a heroes call. They can use this to tell you when there are openings, doors or walls around you. don’t forget about the wall tones in the manamon Games.

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I also would say that the radar system in AHC is something devs should look at, also for example the beakon system would be good to have them noticed.

Regarding things like driving, a hybrit of the topspeed mechanics and those found in games like audio ralley racer would be good, so an announcement where the next turn is and a countdown depending on your speed, so you can make adjustments.
In a racing game you could have something like.
Right 45, left 32, the numbers meaning the steapness of a curve, so if you have a 45 degree or a 32 degree angled curve.

Greetings Moritz.

Swamp, Bokurano Daibouken 3, Manamon, more or less solve their gameplay styles. The only thing I've missed in BK3 (and maybe it's there and I've just missed it) is a column scan to speed up looking around block-by-block, and the sonar helps with that in some ways.

While I like Top Speed 3's style, it does rely on a linear track. It feels like it might struggle with the level of detail that even oldschool games could have (see: offroading in Superhangon, which was most dangerous close to the road, rather than out in the desert). Superhangon also made use of hills to screw with how far ahead you could see, though I'm not sure how common that is in general.

These all amount to giving the player the same tools they could have in real life, except better because they don't have the same physical limitations. Swamp's radar is basically a cane that can also hit high, and can have much higher reach than actual canes. BK3's Sonar is essentially the same thing, as is its ledge echos, and the camera is basically feeling around with extendable hands. Manamon's walls could be any manner of RL wall detection—hands, canes, echolocation. Top Speed 3 basically has a super-accurate GPS. (So does Swamp, for that matter. It's basically the Trecker Breeze / the ability to sa "Hey Siri, where am I?", but more accurate).

Well... For something more experimental, there's my [Audiocraft] prototype, which features a depthmap sonifier with object filtering. If used as an occasional supplemental scanner, I could see it having a great deal of use for navigating 3D spaces, perhaps in some more casual First Person games like Gone Home and such. Though i've experimented with some more high speed rendering that could potentially make some more action oriented games feasible.

Crazy Party's card battler for deck building games. I really do think these games should be fairly easy to make accessible as they're mostly text-based.

These are all great so far! I don't suppose you could give a bit more detail though, for people who are not familiar with the audiogames landscape? For example what is AHC? And how does crazyparty work and what is good about it its approach to accessibility compared to other similar games?

What I'm envisaging is a developer who has never played an audiogame before wondering how to make their type of game accessible, coming to this thread (or an article based on it), being able to understand from one of the posts what the general approach for their type of game should be, and then also having the name of an existing audiogame that they can have a play around with to see how that approach works.

I believe their referring to [A Hero's Call]. The [Somethin' Else] games like Papa Sangre and Nightjar were also pretty good, but tragically unavailable.

For interested mainstream developers,, this is the home page for  shadow line, where you can read about and download the game. It is completely free to play. Only system messages appear to e been translated, so a third party application may be necessary, though someone is working on it.
http://www.mm-galabo.com/sr/index_en.php

Shades of doom and friends wouldbe good references of basic navigational systems, I think. Despite its age it still is an excellent game.

Yup that's why I didn't mention it lol.