Accessible Gaming: How Playable Is Building a CommunityWhere Everyone Can Play

In this episode of Unsyted Radio, Chad and Simonventure into The Omega Reach, an accessible point-and-click museum simulator and dungeon crawler from shiftBacktick. Playing as the curator of a vast conservatory in space, they use a telescopic reach to explore distant galaxies, examine planets and moons, recover unusual instruments and build acollection for visitors to enjoy.

Along the way, they test the game’s audio navigation, hapticfeedback, adjustable controls, tutorials and high-contrast visuals. They also discover that every recovered instrument can be played, traded or displayed—along with some unexpectedly musical food. The conversation broadensinto a thoughtful discussion about accessible gaming, adaptive technology and why disabled players should be able to enjoy games in whatever way works for them.

How The Omega Reach turns a telescope into a tactile, audio-led tool for blind players.

Exploring galaxies, collecting instruments and creating music from each discovery.

Accessibility options including tutorials, haptics, adjustable inputs and high-contrast graphics.

The game’s shop, museum visitors, trading system and hidden dungeon-crawler cellar.

A wider conversation about adaptive controllers,eye-gaze gaming, one-button games and inclusive design.

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Here we go again: Another unsyted Radio Gaming EpisodeWhat happens when a sighted gamer is dropped into a spaceship he cannot see and must navigate entirely by sound? In this episode of Unsyted Radio Gaming, Chad guides Simon through Impulse Response, a gripping audio-only sci-fi horror adventure created by blind developer Max Hatful, with narrative writing and a standout lead performance from Jeneseri. Armed with headphones, a Starfield joystick and a questionable sense of direction, Simon follows eerie audio cues through dark corridors, malfunctioning systems and increasingly devious power-management puzzles—all while trying not to be unnerved by the voices haunting the ship.There are wrong turns, frantic debates over circuit panels, a brief detour into life-sized 3D-printed Warhammer weaponry and one final puzzle that nearly breaks them both. Beneath the banter, however, is a genuinely atmospheric game that proves how powerful audio-led design can be. Built in just one month for Games for Blind Gamers 5—and winning the community vote plus awards for fun, polish and creativity—Impulse Response delivers suspense, clever misdirection and a memorable twist. Put on your headphones, turn down the lights and join Chad and Simon as they discover whether careful listening is enough to get them to the other side.

In this episode of The Unsyted Radio, Chad and Simon return with their usual mix of humour, lived experience and thoughtful discussion. They open with a light-hearted chat about unusual food combinations before moving into accessibility-focused technology news, including Apple’s latest announcements, assistive features in wearables, and reflections on the continuing cost and availability challenges around new technology.

In this episode of Unsyted Radio Gaming, Chad and Simon dive headfirst into the wonderfully chaotic world of Necromancer Nonsense, a blind-accessible real-time strategy game developed by Eric Bomb of Games for Blind Gamers, with tutorial design support from Patricia Mendes. Expect zombies, skeletons, golems, tactical mistakes, sudden comebacks, and plenty of laughter as Simon learns what it really takes to command the undead.

In these new episodes of The Unsyted Radio, we focus on accessible games. In this first episode Chad Bouton and Simon O’Gorman dive head-first into the wonderfully cosy, surprisingly strategic world of Toasty, a push-your-luck deck-building game created by Jesse German for the Games for Blind Gamers community. What starts as a relaxed look at stacking ingredients on toast quickly turns into a hilarious battle of risk, reward, lucky draws, questionable food combinations, and theever-present danger of accidentally making a sandwich.

Along the way, Chad and Simon explore what makes Toasty such a strong example of inclusive and accessible game design. From built-in text-to-speech and screen reader support to colour options, pause controls, and touch-friendly mobile features, the game shows how accessibility can be woveninto the fun rather than added as an afterthought.

Expect plenty of laughs, tactical toast decisions, a passionate defence of hummus, some risky card draws, and Simon repeatedly asking the most important question in gaming: “How lucky do I feel?” Whether you are a gamer, an accessibility advocate, or simply someone who enjoys watching two friends get far too invested in toast-based strategy, this episode is warm, funny, informative, and full of charm.

⁠We’re back with a brand-new episode of The Unsyted Radio — and this one is packed with big conversations, fascinating history, and a first look at an inclusive game we cannot wait to share.⁠

Chad Bouton and Simon O’Gorman dive into the future of accessibility and technology, asking where the line sits between support, choice, cure, and augmentation. From Neuralink’s Blindsight concept to the ethical questions around brain implants and vision restoration, this episode explores the excitement, uncertainty, and very real concerns behind emerging tech.

We also shine a spotlight on Ralph Teetor, the blind mechanical engineer who invented cruise control, and discuss why stories like his deserve to be far better known. It is a powerful reminder that disabled innovators have helped shape everyday technology in ways many people never realise.

The conversation then turns to Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, privacy concerns, and why blanket bans risk taking away affordable and life-changing assistive technology from blindand low vision users. Chad and Simon discuss why regulation, education, and better understanding are more helpful than fear-driven reactions.

To round things off, we take a first look at Amatismo, an inclusive visual novel exploring self-acceptance, depression, and emotional resilience, with a strong focus on accessibility features including screen reader support, self-voicing, scenedescriptions, audio cues, content warnings, and remappable controls.