Nintendo Develops Audiogames For The Blind

Nintendo has developed seven mini (accessible) audio games that can be played on every GBA compatible platform, including the GameBoy Advanced, Gameboy Micro and Nintendo DS.

“At the E3 in 2005 Nintendo released to the press a short video trailer for a series known as “Digitylish.” The trailer showed quick cuts of simplistic but stylish game designs for the Game Boy Advance. Now, more than a year later, the series has resurfaced, under a new name: Bit Generations (the American series might bare the name “Digiluxe Series”). There are 7 games: Dotstream, Boundish, Dialhex (or Rotohex), Coloris, Orbital (or Orbiter), Digidrive and Sound Voyager, all listed under the moniker Bit Generations (or Digilux Series).” According to AudioGames.net

The game interesting in this serie is the Sound Voyager. It actually consists of seven mini games, all on one cartridge. Each of the Sound Voyager mini games is an audio game and therefore Sound Voyager is a new milestone in audio gaming, since it has been seven years since a mainstream game developer developed an audio game. Nintendo is trying to score big with alternative gameplay (you might already have heard stories about their revolutionary Wii controller) and therefore is trying out all sorts of gameplay, with audio gameplay being one of them. The following trailer shows an (older) Asian gamer plugging in his headphones into a GameBoy Micro and starting the game. The trailer continuous to show the gamer playing the games with his eyes closed sitting in a silent room with just a few hints of the audio (referring to the fact that the game is audio).

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