Blind Man's Simon
- Score:
- rated 4.40 / 5 stars
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- Genre:
- Puzzles - Other
- sound
- simon
- audio
- memory
Author Comments
Play the classic game of Simon, but with NO graphics! This is sort of an experiment in a different kind of gaming, judge it as such. As simple and boring of a game as it is, it is a pretty neat stunt playing this game with your eyes closed.
I may change the voice if I can get someone to voice it for me.
Controls (Menu)
UP - Play
RIGHT - View highscore
DOWN - Tutorial
Controls (Game)
UP - Advance sequence
RIGHT - Advance sequence
DOWN - Advance sequence
LEFT - Advance sequence
Controls (Game Over Screen)
LEFT - Return to menu
Reviews
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars 13 days ago
I can see how this made for blind people. Unfortunately, I didn't find much enjoy ment from it. It's mostly because there is no detail in it. I do hear some different voices, but that's about as far as I get. I was mostly pressing the same buttons and I kept getting the same answers. I don't know what's going on. You do have a pretty nice voice.
I tried typing "Blind Man's Simon", but nothing happened. I don't know how to get ahead. How would blind people come across this? It just doesn't make sense to me. It could have at least some visuals.
The game is fully arrow-controlled. The menu explains which buttons are used for which actions, and the game is really more of an arcade game (hence the name Simon) than something with a beginning middle and end.
As for how a blind person would find this, the lack of graphics is more of a gimmick than anything else. Although sighted people could hypothetically sit a blind person down to play this game.
Rated 4 / 5 stars February 23, 2013
i like this game cos its intresting and unique and the man voice over is my brother
o.o What?
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars February 18, 2013
I love the concept of a blind man's simon. I have never seen a game for blind people before on Newgrounds. This is probably because blind people would never visit a games site, but I won't subtract points because the game is kind of useless :P. After all, it's still entertaining for me.
Why I didn't give you a 5/5 is because the main point of the game, the sound, doesn't feel finished. It's not bad, but you could've included much higher quality sound.
It's most noticable in the tutorial, where the girl's voice changes halfway through the tutorial. The man's voice and the automated voice are way softer there as well. It'd be nice if the voice was the same volume throughout the entire game.
What does seem finished is the highscore. It's nice that you included a "ten" for every ten buttons you pressed correctly.
There is a bug there though. The highscore will always sound in the sound you got it in. It could work as a way to have different high scores for different people, but then you should have a different high score for every voice.
I am not at all disappointed by the fact that this game is completely black, but for an all-sound game the sound should be of higher quality. Everything works though, and for the original idea I give you bonus points.
Review request club
You've definitely got a point with the voice volume. Can't tell if that's your only complaint, or what you mean by the voices needing 'higher' quality.
I see you've also noticed the highscore glitch. I only discovered that after uploading the patch with the female voice. Oh well...
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars February 15, 2013
The first thing that I thought of was that it was a very strange idea for a flash game but to be honest it kinda works. I mean, I would have liked to have seen some kind of visual aspect. I know it's called BLIND Man's Simon but that doesn't mean the screen has to be completely black, just that you are blind from the game. A visual could have made it more distracting that there for harder, I personally would have animated a small number of looping scenes e.g. a busy restaurant or a park. Just for something to be there.
It was a good choice tou use two different voices though I gather from previous reviews that this was not always the case. The Microsoft Women is hard to understand at the best of times let alone when you're on a double figures streak at Simon.
All in all not a bad game it's just I can't see it standing out of winning awards anytime soon.
- Review Request Club -
Thanks, glad you liked it. There are actually three voices, though. :P
Of course, if I put in visuals it would defeat the purpose.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars November 13, 2012
Nice idea but...please find someone for the voice! it's confusing and difficult to understand (it reminds me the "Uncle Dolan Show"on youtube,LOL)
I've already been looking into changing it. Thanks for the generous score! 3.5 is a lot for something this simple.