Re: why bgt dont continus
I mean unless it's on steam or the app store, most people won't give a shit anyway, especially when games like Brain Station have been done a thousand times with a much bigger budget already.
This is the same falissy that people had with AHC, which was just a cut down 90s style RPG with a tired storyline and modern audio, but a big leap forward for audio games. Graphics (even high quality ones) weren't going to change that even if you got a few friends playing it to be nice, because they have stuff that's ten steps ahead of that at their fingertips.
Unless we make blind centric games for sighted people that also happen to be decent audio games, and do allot of sensationalist marketing and put it on the right platforms, we wont' grab their attention as gamers. Maybe as financial backers, if we're lucky and smart.
Look at A Blind Legend for a great example of this done well, or The Blind Swordsman for a lower profile example. Their are actually several youtube videos from small channels of sighted people trying those ones for the novelty... But that's all it will ever be, an oddity to show off either for the uniqueness of it, or for virtue signalling
Accepting that fact though saves allot of wasted time and frustration... And if you move forward knowing your audience you have a much better chance of being successful than you would with your head in the clouds IMO.
AHC kind of managed to break the mold by not being for sighted people but still getting allot of press attention, but that's because they started up an actual company and had a team of people. They also clearly came in at a good time and marketed them selves heavily in places where we wouldn't have been invited too five years ago
It's great for the low vision people though, and they definitely shouldn't be excluded!
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