#bigandfluffy

So I didn’t like the style I was doing them in before so I decided I would just do my actual style with actual lining instead of half assing it.

Allow me to preface this post by saying that I’m absolutely in favour of accessibility features in games - and being physically disabled myself, this isn’t a disinterested position on my part! However, I think the matter isn’t as simple as either proponents or detractors of accessibility in gaming often make it out to be, for a couple of big reasons:

1. There’s no such thing as being accessible in the abstract. What’s accessible to you may not be accessible to me, or vice versa; everybody’s accessibility needs are unique, and while certainly some features will be helpful to broader or narrower subsets of your target audience, there’s always going to be more that could be done. Unless you have literally unlimited resources to throw at the problem, at some point you’re going to have to confront the question: how accessible is accessible enough?

Some folks will try to twist this around into an argument that since you can’t get it perfect, you shouldn’t even bother to try, and clearly that’s nonsense, but ultimately you will be forced decide where to give up, and there are no easy answers there.

2. What exactly is being made accessible? Suppose, for example, that we have a game that consists of difficult platforming sections interspersed with interactive cutscenes, and we decide to make the platforming sections skippable. Have we made the game more accessible? Yes and no; we’ve definitely made the cutscenes more accessible, but the platforming sections remain just as inaccessible as they always were.

This problem extends to alternative challenges as well; if you take a puzzle based on matching musical motifs, and create an alternative version that depends on matching visual patterns for the benefit of hearing-impaired players, for example, you haven’t made the original puzzle accessible. You’ve created a different puzzle that hearing-impaired users can solve instead.

I think that second example highlights the crux of the issue: all interactive media necessarily makes certain baseline assumptions about its audience’s ability to engage with it. If those assumptions prove to be invalid, there’s only so much you can do. You can make the piece of interactivity in question skippable, or you can create a second, different piece of interactivity that people can engage with instead, but if neither of those options are satisfactory, there won’t always be a good workaround.

Now here’s the kicker: what if your entire game consists of one particular type of interactivity? Making all of its challenges skippable is of limited value to anyone who wanted to play a game and not watch a movie, and the effort required to come up with alternative versions of every challenge may well be tantamount to the effort required to develop a whole second game. Is that a reasonable expectation? Does your answer change if the game’s developer is a one-person indie show rather than a multi-billion-dollar corporation?

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I will not be able to remember, like at all, to do that

📍Champs-Elysées, Paris

Leather nights with @bigmanoli

aa thank you;;

and some of them? yes. absolutely.

gascoigne’s fight would be nothing but trying to remind him of his humanity; no battle, only talk and lots and lots of music box. i think that eventually he’ll get back to his good ol’ self after reminding him that his daughters are still waiting for him

he’d try to find a way to avoid fighting both rom and ebrietas. while he sees death as the only solution for many other beast and kin bosses, somehow he wishes to find a way to relief them in another way.especially ebrietas.  i know that he didn’t want to hurt her in the first place, he attacked only due lack of any other choice

he’d probably straight up ignore logarius, or show he’s part of the vileblood covenant to let him understand that he means no harm for the queen

same goes for maria. he’d try to talk to her, make her understand he knows what’s up with the nightmare, and the only way to stop it is to get to the coast; i’m not quite sure she’d still let him go through her without trying to stop him, but i’m certain she’s going to appreciate him giving her the rest she so wished to recieve in the first place.

he won’t lay a finger on paarl nor the blood starved beast. he doesn’t need the chalices because he has no intention to use them and knows well what’s up with byrgenwerth and the unseen village, so he has no reason to fight them.besides, if that’s what it takes to befriend djura, so be it. he’s not touching a single beast in old yharnam.

as for npcs battles, there are some changes as well

he’d try to find a way to make brador focus on him and let simon out of the nightmare. i bet listing all the people he killed in the first ‘playthrough’ should be enough to make him follow a way more interesting prey

again, he’d do anything to avoid killing djura. that’s for sure

for henryk it’s a big question mark for me, since i accidentally missed eileen’s quest and i don’t really know what’s up with him - but even more, i actually summoned him against rom. it’s someone he could trust, and i think that if by any chance they fight he’s going to be !!!! and stop eileen for addempting murder.since i think that his eventual fall in beasthood is because of gascoigne’s death, having big dad still alive would help a lot the cause

I’d be initially and excitedly shocked. 

Also since most of my friends aren’t furries and don’t have fursonas it’d be interesting what the universe decides their sonas are. 

I’d put it on an “Awsome” on the scale.