is CKII compatible for the blind?

[Bishop Arundel]

Ok I know this sounds ridiculous, but I did say I'd ask this question to my friend who asked. I have a friend who is a massive history buff, but who unfortunately is completely blind (the only thing he can see are the brightest of lights,) I was telling him about CKII, and he asked me to find out if there was any way he could play it. Knowing the Game like I do I'm guessing the answer is no, but I did say I'd ask on the off chance.

 

[NewbieOne]

Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for you but you might want to ask in the Tech Support forum, or in User Modifications where people would know how to adapt the game, or in the Ask Paradox thread. Hope you find a way! I suppose there might be some screen reading/voice control software making it possible to play some games.

 

[Portal]

There are a lot of subtle visual nuances... like knowing if you're actually ordering your army into the ocean.

 

[Sian]

its a fairly visual game so i doubt it ...

 

[attackdrone]

My suggestion: play a cooperative game. Sit down together and play an Ironman challenge! You'll be able to put his plans into action, and describe events as they pop up.

 

[ZechsMerquise73]

My suggestion: play a cooperative game. Sit down together and play an Ironman challenge! You'll be able to put his plans into action, and describe events as they pop up.

That would be cool.

 

[Maniakki]

My suggestion: play a cooperative game. Sit down together and play an Ironman challenge! You'll be able to put his plans into action, and describe events as they pop up.

This. Doing it like this would be very nice of you. I guess there must be maps for blind as well so he can perhaps follow the events from it when you describe the game? This btw sounds also very interesting AAR..

 

[Hurabi]

My suggestion: play a cooperative game. Sit down together and play an Ironman challenge! You'll be able to put his plans into action, and describe events as they pop up.

Actually, that sounds like quite a lot of fun. I could prolly do this with overseas friends who don't have a copy.

 

[riknap]

if all he can see are high-intensity lighting, it just might be possible to make the game playable. It'll require a very large screen and tweaking contrast ratio's a lot however.

still, I'm not exactly sure how you expect to play a video game if your visual impairment is that limited, especially since it's a strategy game that has quite a lot of text and numbers in it.
the best hope he has aside from augmented reality is for a meatscape-proxy interface

 

[NewbieOne]

This. Doing it like this would be very nice of you. I guess there must be maps for blind as well so he can perhaps follow the events from it when you describe the game? This btw sounds also very interesting AAR..

Lol, was about to say the same! Definitely.

 

[Lorehead]

Still, is there any possible way to send event text and the event log to a screen reader? I assume he probably owns a tactile map of Europe he could follow along with.

 

[ziamatt]

Still, is there any possible way to send event text and the event log to a screen reader? I assume he probably owns a tactile map of Europe he could follow along with.

All events are stored as text files right? I assume it would be possible to program a text-to-speech program that reads the text whenever it is referenced. I have no idea how you would go about doing that though, and integrating it with the Crusader Kings 2 game itself seems like it would be a real challenge.

 

[SeiBiT]

This. Doing it like this would be very nice of you. I guess there must be maps for blind as well so he can perhaps follow the events from it when you describe the game? This btw sounds also very interesting AAR..

and now with the new Republic DLC Enrico Dandolo will be playable, I suppose...

 

[Lorehead]

All events are stored as text files right? I assume it would be possible to program a text-to-speech program that reads the text whenever it is referenced. I have no idea how you would go about doing that though, and integrating it with the Crusader Kings 2 game itself seems like it would be a real challenge.

Event text is stored as entries in a CSV spreadsheet, but with a lot of blanks that get filled in with people's names and the like.

One-line summaries of events are logged to game.log, so it should be possible to have a screen reader narrate that at least.

 

[Ratlegion]

The game is hard enough to play even with both eyes to see. I'm sorry.

 

[Lorehead]

So, if you want to try it, you might give it a shot by setting up his reader to narrate the game.log file (in the Logs subdirectory of the game directory under My Documents) as the game updates it, and let him hit spacebar to pause and ask questions. Maybe you can hold the mouse while he operates the keyboard.

 

[Lord Finnish]

Be the servant to his Nikephoros Diogenes and, as others have said, play cooperatively.

 

[Bishop Arundel]

I think we could easily do this over skype (he lives across the country from me now, but might be moving back home when he graduates) as both me and him will have a lot of free time between the handing in of our PhD Thesis's (mine is next month, his was in November) and our viva's in the spring. He'll probably want to play as the Byzantine empire possibly the Komenos dynasty given his love of the Alexiad and Anna Komena. . It will take ages to do a run through, but I have no trouble doing an AAR providing I've got the time between learning french, reading loads of history, politics and philosophy, and setting up my next research project which I probably but not definitely will.