In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, David Nason speaks to David Janssen of Wanderlost Games, the creators of Dawncaster: Deckbuilding RPG, winners of Best Game in the 2024 AppleVis Golden Apple awards.

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Hello there and welcome to the AppleVis Extra podcast.

My name is David Nason.

Really excited to be bringing this episode to you.

We are celebrating the winners of our 2024 Golden Apple Awards.

So the Golden Apples are a set of awards given out by AppleVis and the AppleVis community every year to mark excellence in apps for blind, low vision, and deafblind people.

We nominate a series of apps in four different categories and the community votes on the winner.

And today I am delighted to be celebrating the Best Game Award.

There were 10 nominees in this category and they were Adventure to Fate, Lost Island, Audio Cat, Asmar Quest, Brailiance, Conjury, Don Castor, Eldrum Untold, Home Quest, Idle Adventure, Land of Livia, and Round Logic.

So great list of nominees there and congrats to all of them for being nominated.

Absolutely brilliant.

And a range of different types of games as well, just puzzle games and RPGs and all different types of games.

So absolutely brilliant.

The runners up getting an honorable mention were Brailiance and Audio Cat.

So congrats to them.

But the winner was, as we announced at the end of 2024, Don Castor RPG.

And today I am delighted to be joined by David Jensen from the Don Castor team to talk about the win.

Hello, David Jensen.

Thank you for joining us on the AppleVis podcast.

Welcome.

Hello.

Also David.

Yeah.

This won't get confusing for people at all.

No, definitely not.

I mean, I mean, maybe they can tell us apart from our accents.

Yes, that is very true.

An Irishman and a detriment.

So, no, we're absolutely delighted to have you on.

You're here to represent Don Castor, which won the AppleVis Golden Apple Award for 2024 in the Best Game category, which is fantastic.

So congratulations, first of all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And thank you for the invite.

Cause I mean, I personally felt very honored, but the rest of the team as well.

And that's, it's not something we, we expected.

I mean, it sounds kind of generic to say, but it really was like that.

It was like, Oh, Oh, wow.

Okay.

That's very cool.

Can you tell us a bit about the game?

Yeah.

So Don Castor is a, is a tech builder card battling game where you go through a RPG storyline where you like, try to like save the world by defeating the big demon king.

And along the way you can talk to NPCs.

You can bring them all onto your adventure.

You can have a huge variety of RPG like builds from a poison rogue to a raging barbarian.

And it just allows for a lot of creativity on how you approach the game.

Yeah.

Sounds very interesting.

And it seems to be a category that's…