Ten-year-old makes audio-only game for his blind grandmother

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Ten-year-old makes audio-only game for his blind grandmother

 

Ten-year-old Dylan Viale wanted to share his enjoyment of video games with his grandmother, who is blind. Instead of breathlessly Narrating his own adventures gameplay, however, Viale downloaded the trial of Game Maker and taught himself how to make an audio-only game for her to play, the subject of a far too heartbreaking story by Kotaku's Jason Schreier.

 

Quacky's Quest is a maze game # in which a duck Avoids collects diamonds and spiders. Grandmother Sherry is able to navigate the maze by the distinctive sounds made ​​by diamonds, spiders nearby, and solid walls. Rocks fill the space behind the player to avoid the confusion caused by walking into a space has already been collected Whose diamond.

 

Viale designed the game with sprites and tiles (above), then turned them off for the final version, Which Sherry had no trouble playing. He then entered it in his elementary school's science fair, where of course it won first place.

 

There are few games that can be Relatively played with audio only - the Japan-only Game Boy game is perhaps the most famous Soundvoyager one. However, it's unlikely Dylan Viale knew about any of those, so he invented the genre Essentially independently. That's worth a science fair medal.

 

 

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[Dddrgn]

Wow... that is just... I didn't even think that was possible!

[alto]

This just shows how advanced we will be in the future if we have 10 year old children doing things like this.

[icky?/]

That's about the sweetest thing I've ever heard

[ajnl]

genius!

[Chuckun]

<3 what an awesome kid.

[MoAZeR]

alie i wish i had his brain

[Warning.]

thats just sick.. Having the knowledge to do that as a 10 year old.. impressive

[Seaside]

This is the kind of news i like to hear, this is just sweet!

[beedub]

Cool story, thanks for sharing it.

[Spaceballs]

Love it. I'd really like to play that game!

[wurstcola]

awesome

[12eh1yg3dqehbcaj]

Very kind of him. Even though the game isn't as amazing as the new ones coming out every year, he can still have some fun with his grandma and they both can enjoy their free time together.

[bell reavue]

Aww! What a lucky grandma.

[PiNoY]

Golden hearts.