Audiogames.net Monthly Digest - December 2024
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Welcome to the penultimate audiogames.net monthly digest of 2024! This month, DRG — one of our more active accessibility advocates has brought us 2 more amazing games. Have you ever thought to bring word games, match 2 and rogue likes together? Turns out it's something you can totally do with some very fun results! In the updates section, we have a big expansion for a beloved game with accessibility features, and that's just a tip of the iceberg. So, enjoy reading, and don't forget to tell your friends they can get these digests too!
New Releases
Bardcard (iOS)
Description by DRG:
Hey everyone! The last update to this fantastic game improved Voiceover support, so the game is completely playable now. In the game you explore the rooms by matching cards to discover items, monsters, coins, shops and npc's. it works kinda like a memory game, but wait! there's much more to it. you need to manage your energy and health, disarm traps, fight deadly creatures and find companions to help you. The last update also made disarming traps completely accessible. it works like a mine sweeper game. The game is really interesting because it mixes many elements from different genres, plus there's a good story for you to discover. and there's much more content in development, it will be released soon. I really recommend it. The game has good sound effects. During battles you can tap the middle of the screen while the enemy is attacking to know if he managed to hit you. The developers will keep improving Voiceover support, and they are so nice! Description: Bardcard is a card-matching roguelite featuring a mysterious subterranean world to explore. Match cards to advance through the dungeon. Discover helpful equipment, battle dangerous minions, and meet magical familiars that join you on your adventure. Learn the secrets of this realm and discover the truth about the chaos that engulfs it. Can you find your brother Lukas? Who is ZUG? How far down does this dungeon go?
FEATURES
- 40+ rooms to explore: Determine the best card-matching sequence to survive each floor. Keep on the lookout for alternate exits leading down less-traveled paths, and rare artifacts that appear when specific cards are matched. Are you exploring a dark room? In that case you’d better bring a torch!
- 150+ unique, hand-drawn cards to discover: Weapons, armor, and magical items to protect you in the dungeon. Various characters that guide you, teach skills, and present puzzles. Monsters and traps to thwart your progress at every turn. There’s a lot to discover, and each game is a bit different than the last.
- Old-school RPG elements set within an immersive world: Turn-based action, experience levels, quests to complete, and more. We’ve taken elements from all our favorite games of yesteryear and rolled them into Bardcard.
- Beautiful soundtrack created by us: We’ve orchestrated every flute, piano, and xylophone to create a unique realm to adventure in.
- Challenging rogelite system with powerful persistent artifacts: Death is likely unavoidable in this dangerous world. Lucky for you, there are special items and companions that stick with you no matter what happens in the dungeon.
ACCOLADES
App Store Game of the Day (11/8/22)
ABOUT RASCAL MAGIC
We are two childhood friends building a mysterious world for you to explore. Originally from Michigan and now based up and down the West Coast, we create everything from the gameplay, imagery, audio, and story, to physical apparel and collectibles. Although we charge a small price for downloading our games, we don’t have in-game advertising or in-app purchases. It’s just not our thing. Instead, you get access to the entire game and future updates. Let’s do this!
Depths of endor (iOS, Android, Windows)
Game description: Classic turn-based dungeon crawler RPG. A roguelike with retro style. Embark on an epic journey in this classic, turn-based dungeon crawler RPG! Dive into a retro-styled adventure that combines the best elements of old-school role-playing games with modern features of a roguelike. Explore dangerous dungeons, defeat fearsome monsters, and uncover hidden treasures as you guide your hero through a roguelite full of challenges. Choose Your Hero: Play as one of 7 unique races: Elf, Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Troll, Undead, or Draconian each with distinct abilities and stats. Customize your hero’s journey by joining 8 different guilds: Nomad, Warrior, Thief, Mage, Healer, Paladin, Ninja or Ranger. Each guild offers unique skills and playstyles. Classic Turn-Based Combat: Experience tactical and strategic combat as you face off against challenging foes. Master your skills, equip powerful weapons, and use potions to survive the toughest battles. Collect a variety of weapons, from simple swords to rare magical items! Explore Dangerous Dungeons: Venture into 10 different dungeons filled with traps, hidden passages, and powerful enemies. Find hidden secrets and treasures as you navigate through multiple levels. Each dungeon offers a different challenge and environment, keeping the experience fresh and exciting. Guilds & Skills: Join a guild to unlock special abilities and improve your hero’s skills. , - Train with fellow members to become stronger and more adept in your chosen path. Become the ultimate warrior, thief, or mage as you rise through the ranks! Daily Rewards & In-Game Shop: Collect gold from daily chests to help you on your journey. Visit the shop to purchase weapons, armor, and other items to boost your hero’s power. Find normal and magical items to strengthen your character and prepare for tougher challenges ahead Features: Retro pixel art style that brings back the charm of classic RPGs. Turn-based gameplay that emphasizes strategy and planning. An in-depth character progression system with countless ways to build your hero. Newly released game with regular updates, new dungeons, items and features based on player feedback! Why Play? Nostalgic RPG experience with a modern twist. Endless opportunities for character customization. Engaging, turn-based combat with an emphasis on tactics and strategy. A growing world with new content added regularly. Be among the first to join us on this journey and help shape the future of this retro dungeon-crawling RPG! Whether you're a seasoned adventurer or new to the genre, there's something for everyone. Explore, fight, and become the hero you were meant to be. Download now and start your adventure today! Notes from me: There are a small handful of unlabeled buttons and elements, but all the important buttons and menus read, and clicking a button will bring up menus so you can figure them out. To equip a character, check the vox next to the gear name. Everyone has their own inventory, so if you click on the item and then use "give", ... yeah. There are up and down arrows next to the equipment that tell you if an equipment is stronger or weaker to what a character currently has equipped. The compass for moving around is now fully labeled, and you get terrain tiles and wall sounds when moving about. The game is played in landscape mode, though you can set it to portrait in settings, and it also keeps a log of all important actions. Thanks to recent accessibility updates from the developer, you no longer need to constantly check around the level and coordinate image for monsters, chests, and stairs with every step you take, as all of this is now fully spoken. You can enable this by going to settings, and from within the first tab, enable the accessibility popups. This will also swap out the map button for the "what's around" button, which tells you immediately what's to the north, south, east, and west of your current position. You also get a nifty tile and percentage counter to keep track of how much of each dungeon floor you have explored. BE aware that it is possible to step on every coordinate, as walls and doors sit between them, rather than on top of them, like in other games. You can memorize, or take notes of important landmarks such as portals, stairs, and waypoints within a dungeon as they do not change positions between runs. Below is the playstore link. https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta … endor.game Here is the ios link. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/depths-of … 6702012149 Very special thanks to the developer for listening to, and incorporating player feedback to make Depths of Endor more blind friendly.
The Windows version of the game can be found here on Steam.
Letterlike (iOS)
Prepare for endless possibilities with Letterlike, a roguelike word game! SOLO WORD GAME Designed to be played alone, but specific runs can be replayed by friends using a shared seed! MAKE WORDS, SCORE POINTS Advance through rounds and stages by making longer words and scoring more points! ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES Letterlike offers procedurally generated runs with random items and random bosses to provide for endless possibilities! PROGRESSIVE UPGRADES Gain special gems throughout the game to gain powerful upgrades for each run! ONE-TIME PURCHASE We are dedicated to making Letterlike ad-free without any in-app purchases so your purchase goes a long way! FREE UPDATES Any updates to Letterlike (including expansions of items and bosses) will always be free! NEW GAME PLUS Unlimited fun playing again with new game plus PLAY OFFLINE The entire game is available offline to be enjoyed on the go! By downloading the Letterlike App, you agree to the Letterlike Privacy Policy (https://playletterlike.com/privacy), Terms and Conditions (https://playletterlike.com/terms), and Apple Terms of Sale
Football Chairman Pro 2 (iOS, Android)
Football Chairman is back and it's bigger than ever!
Create a football club from scratch, starting as a tiny non-league team, and see if you can make it through seven divisions to the very top.
See your players win play-offs, cup competitions and eventually conquer Europe and the World!
Hire and fire managers, develop your stadium, negotiate transfers, contracts and sponsorship deals... while keeping the fans and the bank manager happy.
Over three million users have downloaded the Football Chairman games since launch, and they have won multiple app store awards.
Football Chairman Pro 2 is the newest and most in-depth version of the game, which is updated every season free of charge with the very latest data!
FC Pro 2 retains the fast-paced, addictive gameplay that made the earlier versions so popular, while adding a whole host of new features, including:
- Updated domestic, European and international cup competitions for 2024/25
- Compete with clubs from all over the globe in a World Team Cup
- Load or create updated datapacks featuring teams from all over the world
- Design your club's home, away and goalkeeper shirts each season
- No time limits or adverts, and all in-app purchases are 100% optional
- Managers have more detailed profiles, including age, personality and preferences
- Negotiate manager contracts and renewals
- Take over 'real' teams or go back to your previous clubs
- More flexibility over signings with a new 'Transfer shortlist'
- 'Hall of Fame' to honour your club's greatest ever players
- New 'Financial Fair Play' challenge scenario to test your skills
- More detailed financial insights to help you manage your club's money
- 99 achievements to aim for, including 49 brand new ones
- Trophy Cabinet to show off your club's silverware
- Redesigned interface
- Plus thousands of other improvements to the gameplay!
Good luck... you'll need it
Cooky craze (Windows)
Hi everyone. Hope you all are doing well. I just released my game cooky craze on itch.io and github for any intrested developers. In this game, you’ll bake, sell, and even indulge in the cookies you create. Work your way up through the ranks of baking mastery to become the ultimate baker, and earn coins for every cookie baked and sold while you're at it. The money you earn in the game can be used to purchase various items in the shop, witch can help you throughout your baking journey. Can you reach the highest rank and become the ultimate baker? Let's find out! Master the balance between baking and indulging, and beware of the effects of over consumption. Play smart and aim for cookie-baking greatness! You can find the game here, along with it's source code on github. https://tsatria03.itch.io/cooky-craze https://github.com/tsatria03/CookyClicker Enjoy, and please let me know what improvements I should make for upcoming versions of the game. All feedback is highly welcome.
Antimatter Dimensions Accessible Mod (Web)
Antimatter Dimensions is an idle clicker where you start out producing small amounts of antimatter, but work your way up to producing billions, infinities or even more of the stuff by purchasing various upgrades here is the gaudio games page for the normal version of the game. This is my mod of Antimatter Dimensions that makes the late game much more accessible and fixes a bunch of more minor accessibility problems like achievements, notifications and other goodies. To use, follow the link at the bottom of the post, go down to the bottom of the page, then go up until you find a clickable that says "visual." Click it , then go upward looking for a button that says "screen reader mode." Press it and you should be good to go. It should be possible to play it 95% of the way through at least without a mouse. I haven't made it farther than that, but it shouldn't need a mouse from what I know. You can play it online here or download it as a ZIP file here.
playnook: audio gamebook for ios and android.
Are you ready to become the protagonist of brand-new and original stories? Come up on PlayNook, the first platform for gaming with sound and voice!
We want to change the world of gaming, using sound as the main resource. We believe that the endless possibilities of audio can create new, immersive, barrier-free worlds for our AudioGamers. Join the community today!
PlayNook features: • An Audio Game is an interactive story based on the power of audio: actors, music, sound design, and unique settings take you through an outstanding experience. • Everything is interactive: the path of the story is up to you! Throughout the journey, you will find multiple-choice forks. You will have to make decisions that will affect the course of the story and change your path, so choose carefully! • Our AudioGames catalog is divided into Originals and Shorts: find your favorite format! • Collect Karma and Gold along your path and reach the top of the leaderboard! By obtaining enough Collectibles, you will unlock access to special stories and exclusive content in the future. Start playing now and work your way up! • Roll the dice! Sometimes it's not enough to just make a decision: you have to rely on fate to decide your fate! Whether it's a fight, a dangerous jump, or a chance dictated by chance, you'll have the chance to roll the dice. With the combination of scores, accumulated items, and a bit of luck, your move will influence the choices of fate! • Multiple Game Modes: Auto, Text Only, and Accessibility.
New AudioGames are available for free! Challenge yourself: will you stand for your choices?
Game updates
1428: Shadows Over Silesia has received its first major expansion DLC, titled 1428: Shadows over Silesia - Tourney at the Bear Rock.
Dive into the thrilling world of knight tournaments! Help Hynek compete in jousting, man-to-man combat and archery, as well as to carry out a mysterious quest that will change his life forever.
- New adventure: Head to Pernstein Castle where knights gathered in 1409 to honor the beauty and virtue of the Lady Madeleine in a tournament. The still rather young Hynek is not only one of the many participants who want to prove their mettle, but is on a secret mission as well.
- New characters: Meet the treacherous castle lord, William of Pernstein, the renowned warriors John Sokol of Lamberg and John Zizka, as well as many other knights whose names have long since been covered in the dust of ages.
- Tournament competitions: Test your might in jousting, melee combat, and archery. Discover the strengths and weaknesses of your opponents and turn them to your advantage.
- Day and night activities: Take part in tournament events during the day and have fun or relax after sunset! You are in for sumptuous feasts, troubadour tunes, chatter around the campfire, and jesters' performances.
For anyone interested in the DLC, the Blind Accessibility Tutorials page was updated with tutorials explaining how to play the new DLC minigames.
- LongevityWorld Had several updates in November which optimized the game, fixed various bugs, added new voice lines with an option to turn off the protagonist shouting attack names when they're being used, added more combat hotkeys, streamlined the reported information during combat and much more.
- Warsim had two updates in November. Version 1.2.6 was released to fix a major crash, but also added a new hidden champion. It turned out that said champion introduced a new major bug, so another update, 1.2.7 was released to fix this. That update also added more drinking features when you're at a house party, as well as greatly expanded the "mushroom trip" system, and made other small fixes.
- Zetianji had a number of updates throughout November, the biggest one being on November 11th. It added more audio queues for horse riding and realtime combat, playable musical instruments, continued the game story and added a number of new items. Subsequent updates made further bug fixes and balance tweaks as well as added even more items
- Dawncaster received a small update which moves completed reward tracks to the bottom of the list, improved some translations, as well as made a few tweaks to some cards, translations and randomizing malignancies
- Corruption of Champions 2 has a new quest and more content
- the Crusader Kings 3 accessibility Mod was updated to support the just released Roads of Power DLC, bringing support to become a landless adventurer who travels around doing contracts for other rulers, with support for the rest of the DLC coming soon.
- Crazy Party Beta 82 includes a brand new world featuring more minigames all about sleeping, dreaming and waking up, over 20 new battle cards as well as a few fixes for existing minigames.
- Infini crawl is getting a major update on December 1st (so it should already be out when you're reading this) which adds a ton of new content and tweaks, new sounds, improves the way the save system works, adds new settings to announce when entering inspect mode and much more.
- Azmar Quest added a final 6th chapter to the story as well as finished improving the over all text in the game, options to select between 3 saved teams in the vailed realm and more. A previous update improved accessibility in some sections of the game like the shop.
- Wave of the Undead 4.6 featured a large overhaul of defensive items, switched to a newer speech library which should be more responsive and support outputting to narrator, as well as made other bug fixes and balance tweaks.
- Hearthstone patch 31.0.3 focused on balance changes after the launch of the new expansion. Looming on the horizon is the next season of Battlegrounds, to launch on December 3rd, featuring a minion rotation, 3 new heros, as well as the ability to Reroll a hero you don't like when starting the game.
- Cyberpunkdreams now allows you to press E on an action to display an accessible dialog telling you more information about it, including its cost and any descriptions normally displayed when you move the mouse over it.
- Forza update 14 is all about Nascar, with the career events featuring the modern Nascar races from the 2024 season. It also tweaks the game AI and race regulations
- The Mortal Kombat 1 November update adds Ghostface as a playable character owners of Khaos Reigns, adds options to rewind and take over control when watching match replays, brings balance changes and improvements to the screen reader
- Periphery Synthetic 3.28 introduces a number of accessibility enhancements which should help if you can't clearly hear the game, including a stereo width control, options to increase the volume of the left and right channels separately as well as improving the clarity of collectable sounds and navigation audio queues.
- The Tornado Chicken is now available on Linux. The documentation was also updated to let you know about some secrets you can find in the game
Authors
This edition of the digest has been written by:
- Piotr Machacz (pitermach@dragonscave.space on Mastodon)