IGL (Invisible Gaming Lab) has been hosting monthly game experience events since 2024. We borrow the venue from Body Care Kitchen Luxen located in Sangenjaya.
This time, we played with:
- 1-2-SWITCH
- Pokemon battles using Pokéscreader for SV
This was the first time a Pokemon battle reading application appeared at our experience event.
This application was developed by mochi, a gaming friend of an IGL member. Using this application, it recognizes the battle screen of Pokemon Scarlet & Violet and reads out necessary information via TTS.
When playing competitive battles like Pokemon ranked matches without sight, there are several inconveniences: it’s difficult to know the opponent’s party in advance, when selecting your own Pokemon, you can’t double-check and must trust your own operations, and the time limit becomes a bottleneck when operating carefully.
While many of these issues might not be problems for serious Pokemon players, there are unfair situations at a basic level, such as difficulty checking type effectiveness in real-time, trouble understanding effects from opponents’ abilities and items, and difficulty keeping track of each other’s moves.
Using the application, necessary battle information is read aloud in real-time, expanding strategic possibilities. In addition to automatic reading, you can also use keyboard shortcuts to individually check desired information.
For details, please refer to the page above. I think this is a revolutionary tool for people playing Pokemon SV while completely blind. IGL will continue planning experience corners using this tool.
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