Titled “Breaking the Barriers,” this impressive update is even the subject of a video demo of over 9 minutes – which you can find here – detailing all the accessibility options it embeds. These are designed to allow everyone, especially people with disabilities, to indulge in the Motion Twin title:” These new options are designed to provide specific and bespoke gameplay tweaks for those who need it, making this “hard but fair game” easy to use, rather than adding arbitrary difficulty levels that don’t really meet players’ needs. “Is that explained on the game’s Steam page?
As a result, the type and size of fonts, the customization of controls and sound effects, the settings for enemy health, parry windows, or health are all messed up. The program also offers auto-attack capabilities as well as a full map display. These are just a few examples of the many contributions to this update, which aims to make the game more welcoming to those who might be discouraged by the challenge, and to support those with mobility, vision, hearing or sensory disabilities who find it overloaded. All of these additions were developed in collaboration with the American foundation AbleGamers due to the participation of players with different disabilities.
” Hopefully we don’t have to justify adding accessibility options, but we’ve received a lot of feedback that the game might be inaccessible for a number of reasons. (…) If the unmodified version of Dead Cells already strikes the right balance between challenge and progression for you, these changes are optional – just keep the game as it is and keep having fun. Hope to clarify Motion Twin. The studio is referring to Assist Mode here, which allows you to set the difficulty of the game with a plethora of settings, and may be unpopular with a few purists. The prejudices assumed by the Bordeaux developers, he specified: “We recognize that some people who “don’t need” this mod will still use it, so they die less and don’t learn from their mistakes, which is a key part of roguelites. However, we’ve placed several messages in the game explaining this mode, so it’s up to them whether they still want to use it. »
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