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Xbox X|SWe've documented 19 accessibility features for Luna The Shadow Dust, including Low Pressure, Colour Blind Friendly, Audio Cues, No Reading and Save Anytime. Its accessibility is strongest in Visual and Getting Started but it also has features in Controls, Navigation, Reading and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.
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External examiner, Beidi Guo, first checked Luna The Shadow Dust accessibility 10 months ago. It was re-examined by Beidi Guo and updated 10 months ago.
Accessibility Notes
Navigation is linear and designed to be clear. There's only one exit to the next level and there's no need to return to the previous location.
Game Details
Release Date: 13/10/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Adventure, Point-and-Click (Narrative and Puzzle)
Accessibility: 19 features
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Developer: Lantern Studio (@LanternStudio_)
Costs: Purchase cost
Controls
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Controls in Luna The Shadow Dust which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.
Gamepad
Can play with the following:
Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks.
Mouse And Keyboard
Can play with the following:
Mouse Alone: Can play with just the mouse/mouse-button/mouse wheel.
Remap Controls
Can customise the controls for the game as follows:
Remap Game Menu Access: Can remap buttons to pause, access and navigate the game menu. This enables you to specify which buttons pop-up the game menu.Whether you can remap menu navigation buttons isn't considered here.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls
If you want to play Luna The Shadow Dust, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:
- 39 Days to Mars (12 Controls Features)
- Teacup (7 Controls Features)
- El Hijo - A Wild West Tale (7 Controls Features)
- Skye Tales (6 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Difficulty in Luna The Shadow Dust which deal with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play.
Getting Started
We've documented 6 accessibility features for Getting Started in Luna The Shadow Dust which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.
Assistance Getting Starting
These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.
Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.
View Control Mapping: You can view a map of controls during play. This clearly displays the mappings of actions to buttons/keys/mouse/keyboard without having to leave the game. This includes games that always display buttons to press during play.
Low Pressure: Game tasks aren't time-limited or there's a low-pressure mode. This avoids the pressure of being put on the clock for overarching missions, or failing tasks because you didn't reach a destination in time.
No Jump Scares: No sudden loud noises or popping-up scary visuals that unexpectedly appear without warning, or the option to disable them.
Assistance For Progressing
These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.
Bank Progress With Frequent Checkpoints: If you fail you can retry that level or aspect of the game without losing a lot of progress (less than 5 minutes). This is often provided via Frequent Checkpoints combined with restarting without losing time, equipment or score.
Save Progress Anytime: The game automatically saves progress or you can save any time. This doesn’t mean you never lose progress, but it does mean you can stop whenever you want (without having to get to a save point) without losing progress.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started
If you want to play Luna The Shadow Dust, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- Skye Tales (8 Getting Started Features)
- Frequency Missing (7 Getting Started Features)
- 39 Days to Mars (7 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Reading in Luna The Shadow Dust which deals with how much reading or listening comprehension is required, how well the game provides visual and audible access to the text and whether subtitles and captions are a good fit for purpose.
Reading Level
How much reading is required to play the game's main path or story and how complex the language is. The presence of voiced characters doesn't reduce this requirement, as it's recorded as a separate datapoint.
No Reading: No reading is required, other than simple menus. The game either has no text or can communicate textual content with visuals and interactions. If reading isn't required because the text is voiced the All Dialogue is Voiced feature indicates this.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading
If you want to play Luna The Shadow Dust, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Skye Tales (5 Reading Features)
- 39 Days to Mars (5 Reading Features)
- Six Cats Under (4 Reading Features)
- Teacup (4 Reading Features)
Navigation
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Navigation in Luna The Shadow Dust which deal with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.
Clarity
Large Clear Navigation: The in-game navigation and maps are clear to read. They offer large text and offer markers that are large and of high contrast. Where text or information is small, there are settings to zoom-in and increase visibility.
Menu Navigation
Menu Narrated: All of the game menus can be narrated for easier navigation. The game menus can therefore be navigated without reading text.
Remap Game Menu Access: Can remap buttons to pause, access and navigate the game menu. This enables you to specify which buttons pop-up the game menu.Whether you can remap menu navigation buttons isn't considered here.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation
If you want to play Luna The Shadow Dust, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:
- Skye Tales (6 Navigation Features)
- 39 Days to Mars (4 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 7 accessibility features for Visual in Luna The Shadow Dust which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.
Contrast
Medium Contrast: Game uses generally well contrasting and bright visuals, or has a slider to make this the case.
Visual Distractions
No Flashes: No flashing strobe effects or you can disable them. This includes the absence of flashing from dramatic visual effects, explosions or weather effects like lightning.
No Screen Shake: No screen shake effect or it is included but it can be disabled. This includes the absence of screen shake for dramatic effect as well as to indicate hits on a target.
Audio Cues for Visual Events
Audio Cues for Visual Events: Audio is provided to indicate visual events. Game events or progress highlighted by visual icons, effects or animations are also accompanied by audio to signify that progress. This is useful for blind players.
Narration for Visual Elements
This is the audible narration of in-game text. Sometimes talk about as Text To Speech, although it may include the narration of no-textual elements. This is different to Text To Voice, which provides player-player textual communication audibly.
Menu Narrated: All of the game menus can be narrated for easier navigation. The game menus can therefore be navigated without reading text.
Motion Sickness Friendly
Motion Sickness Friendly: Doesn't have 3D movement elements that may trigger motion sickness, like motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision. Or includes the ability to disable motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision effects.
Colour Options
Colour Blind Friendly: Game doesn’t rely on colour or can switch to colour blind friendly mode with double coding or similar way to avoid colour dependance.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual
If you want to play Luna The Shadow Dust, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Skye Tales (8 Visual Features)
- Love You To Bits (8 Visual Features)
- Frequency Missing (8 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Luna The Shadow Dust which deals with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.
Adjustable Audio
Balance Audio Levels: Set music and game sound effects separately. This enables you to select your preference as well as ensure critical game sounds aren't obscured by other audio.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio
If you want to play Luna The Shadow Dust, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:
- Skye Tales (3 Audio Features)
- Teacup (3 Audio Features)
- El Hijo - A Wild West Tale (2 Audio Features)
- Frequency Missing (2 Audio Features)
System Accessibility Settings
In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games.
PC
Windows has extensive accessibility features. Some, like colour correction, work with games. Lots of accessibility software can be used with PC games, from voice recognition to input device emulators.
Read more about system accessibility settings.
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