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Re:Playing roguelikes when you can’t see by cavanasm on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:55PM (#14061362)
I'm fully sighted, but the concept of visual free or visual agnostic games has been something I've wondered about for a while. I hadn't considered the viability of heavily menu based RPGs before, but reading about it, it seems plainly obvious (kind of embarrassed I'd never considered that).

I really want to see (or find time to make myself) a first person game with no visuals and all the gameplay feedback through binaural audio, but I'm not sure of the technical details necessary for the audio part, and I have no idea how playable such a game would necessarily be.

Re:Playing roguelikes when you can’t see by throwanem on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:26PM (#14061650)
Such a game appears to exist: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/01/scared-of-the-dark-a-...

If you try it, I'll be interested to know how you find it!