This episode of The Unsyted Radio is a fun, heartfelt mix of accessibility insight, gaming chat, assistive technology history, and classic Chad-and-Simon banter. From rogue screen readers, giant snails, and Simon’s anniversary trip to Italy, the episode quickly sets a warm and humorous tone.

Chad shares updates from the Games for Blind Gamers community, including accessible game development, human-made art and music, voice acting, localisation, and the value of independent creators who prioritise accessibility from the start.

The news section celebrates “Sightwalk”, a clever tactile paving idea that helps blind and low-vision pedestrians identify nearby places, before moving into a more serious discussion about accessibility layoffs in gaming and what they could mean for the future of inclusive design.

The new assistive technology history segment explores the evolution of the wheelchair, from ancient wheeled furniture to folding steel frames, electric wheelchairs, and the future of autonomous mobility. It is a geeky, fascinating reminder that assistive technology has always been about independence and freedom.

The main discussion asks whether robot guide dogs could ever replace real guide dogs. Simon brings the tech curiosity, while Chad brings lived experience and a powerful reminder that guide dogs offer more than navigation: they provide trust, confidence, companionship, and connection.

The episode closes with a lively look at Impulse Response,an atmospheric audio-based horror game that challenges Simon to navigate using sound alone. The result is funny, tense, and a great showcase of how audio games create a completely different gaming experience.

If you or anyone you know has been affected by the layoffs over at Xbox and our in need of resources then please visit Always Supporting the Games Community.

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In this episode of Unsyted Radio, hosts Chad Michael Bouton and Simon O’Gorman bring their warm, conversational style, lived experience and shared passion for accessibility to a lively discussion with Eric Baum and Patrícia Mendes.

Together, they explore Games for Blind Gamers 5, after the success of Chads Games for blind gamers 5 part series the duo explore accessible game design, and the power of community-led feedback.

The conversation highlights how the jam has grown, why designing accessibility from the start matters, and how features created for disabled players often improve games for everyone. Eric and Patrícia share behind-the-scenes insights into standout entries, the role of blind playtesters, the importance of tutorials, and the generous collaboration between developers, players, writers, voice actors and accessibility consultants.

The episode also looks ahead to the Making Games Accessible jam, encouraging anyone with an interest in accessibility, whether developer, writer, artist, tester or player, to get involved and help make games more inclusive.

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-5

https://caniplaythat.com/2026/06/02/games-for-blind-gamers-announces-new-accessible-game-jam-for-july/#:~:text=The%20Games%20for%20Blind%20Gamers,going%20beyond%20purely%20creating%20games.

For the finale of the Games for Blind Gamers 5 special series, Chad is joined by Joozey who is an independent game developer, programmer, and artist known for creating unique, narrative-driven indie games and supporting accessible gaming initiatives.

Will Watson who is one of the founders of Bearwaves, the indie studio who are behind the games Feud and Dave's Word Game, where he handles sound and music.

and Sophie who is an independent multimedia creator, musician, and sound designer. She produces digital content, custom music tracks, sound effects, and comedic content across the indie gaming community.

Chad with his guests reflect on the creation of Delver’s Folly, the audio-first dungeon adventure that became one of the standout entries of the jam. The team discusses how the game grew from an ambitious idea into a richly atmospheric, accessible experience shaped by sound design, dynamic music, screen reader support, visual texture, community feedback, and relentless playtesting.

Along the way, they explore the creative challenges of making a game for blind and low-vision players, the importance of building accessibility in from the start, and the collaborative spirit that made the project so meaningful. Warm, honest, and full of behind-the-scenes insight, this episode celebrates accessible game development, creative problem-solving, and the people who helped bring Delver’s Folly to life.https://joozey.itch.io/delversfolly-wip

Chad and Simon are back in the virtual studio for awide-ranging, heartfelt and often hilarious episode exploring accessibility,gaming, music festivals, technology and the future of the games industry.

Chad shares powerful reflections from his time mentoring young blind gamers at Signal Centers’ summer camp in Tennessee, including the joy of helping young people discover accessible games that give them confidence, agency and independence. Simon also reflects on bringing Games for Blind Gamers titles to the Big Health Day in Gloucestershire and seeing first-hand how inclusive play can create genuine moments of connection.

The conversation then moves from accessible gaming toaccessible live music, as Simon talks about his trip to Download Festival and praises the festival’s commitment to inclusion, from accessible viewing platforms and BSL interpretation to sensory support and a community atmosphere where everyone is encouraged to belong.

Along the way, Chad and Simon tackle bigger questions around disability support, education, assisted dying, social media bans, digital wellbeing, retro technology and the growing influence of older gamers. They also dig into the state of the gaming industry, why indie and retro games matter, and whether accessibility-focused developers could help shape a betterfuture for players of every age and ability.

It is a passionate, funny and thought-provoking episode about inclusion, creativity and the simple belief that when more people can play, participate and be heard, everybody wins.

In part 4 of our special series, Chad Bouton highlights the developers and teams behind Games For Blind Gamers 5, where creators spent February building games specifically for blind and visually impaired players.

In this episode, Chad sits down with Shiftbacktick.

A web developer, accessibility advocate, and computer music graduate, Shiftbacktick creates games that blend technical innovation with inclusive design. Their work focuses on real-time synthesis and procedural generation to build rich interactive audio experiences, powered by their own spatial sound and synthesis library, syngen. After taking first place in the community vote at last year’s Games For Blind Gamers jam, they return this year with The Omega Reach, another imaginative and universally accessible game world for players to explore.

https://shiftbacktick.itch.io/the-omega-reach

For pt 3 Chad speaks to Jesse who is a Software Engineer based in Massachusetts. Outside of work, Jesse contributes to Web Standards work, and small web projects. For the past three game jams Jesse has worked on three separate games as well as accessibility libraries and templates to enable frameworks like PICO-8 and Love2d to be screen-reader friendly.

The past projects include Lunch Gambit (Games for Blind Gamers 3), and LadyBud Roll (Games for Blind Gamers 4). And this year for Games For Blind Gamers 5, Jesse created the wonderful game Toasty.

Check out the amazing Toasty Game on the link below

https://jrjurman.itch.io/toasty

This week is the 3rd part in the 5 part series on Games for Blind Gamers. Today Chad talks to the amazing Mystic Gamer. Mystic Gamer is a blind accessibility playtester who enjoys helping out game developers, university students and professors with testing blind accessibility features for their games. His role for games for blind gamers was as a playtester. He played through as many games as he could and gave feedback and ratings.

Mystic Gamer has been part of the panel of judges for the blind community for the game jam for two years now.

For Valencia Tales he helped provide feedback, to highlight any bugs or accessibility issues he found while playing the game that helped the developers to improve the game further.

Game Details:

With your magical Divining Rod for assistance, meet NPCs, embark on side quests, fight monsters, and see if you can save Valencia from the clutches of evil in order to save the day.

Valencia Tales is heavily inspired by The Legend of Zelda and similar action games. You are in a 3D world with a first-person perspective, experienced purely via audio. This game was developed primarily for blind gamers, with the help of blind testers and accessibility consultants.

You can find the download for Valencia tales in the link below

https://pipejakob.itch.io/valencia

Chad continues the special series looking at the Games For Blind Gamers 5. Continuing today we start interviews conducted with members of Games For Blind Gamers, highlighting all of the amazing work done by the community who spent all of February 2026 creating blind accessible games that are free to play and totally blind accessible.

Today Chad is talking to the amazing Max, the game developer for Impulse Response. Max is a self taught programmer, becoming a professional game developer 10 years ago. Currently, Max works as a web developer but still dabbles in his free time on projects like impulse response and the engine it was made in - ruby_rpg. For Impulse Response, Max did all the coding, physics, sound engine etc giving Jenna's ideas a place to come to life.

Also the wonderful Jenna "Jennissary." Jenna who did the voice acting for Impulse Response. Jenna works as a producer for live and interactive audio description at Descriptive Video Works. Jenna is the industry's leading expert on in-game audio description. Jenna has spoken at JAMTL, the Game Accessibility Conference, and has guest lectured at UCL. Jenna has produced audio description for major titles (Mortal Kombat One and Spider Man 2), events (The Game Awards and Xbox Showcases), and event trailers.

The game Impulse Response can be downloaded in the below link.

https://dedly13.itch.io/impulse-response

All games can be found for free download below

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-5

Chad and Simon are back with another episode exploring different aspects of Dissability and technology.

We explore 3D printing and design for people who are blind. talking about Edis a blind designer and his website for budding engineers with sight impairment.

https://accessible3d.io/

We talk about accessibility issues with the removal of real banks and Ticket offices in train stations

Finally we talk about our thoughts around AI and the benefits and dangers to people with Disabilities.

Starting today to celebrate Global Accessibility Day Unsyted Radio starts a series of 6 episodes where Chad explores the people and games behind the Games for blind Gamers 5 hosted in February 2026.

This special series of interviews conducted with members of Games For Blind Gamers, organisers and game developers.

Over the next 5 weeks Chad will be highlighting all of the amazing work done by the community who created blind accessible games that are free to play and are totally blind accessible.

Todays episode Chad talks to Eric The primary host of the game jam. He is not the only host but he is the longest serving member. He has also been a pivitol game developer and has created and submitted a game for all five game jams.

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-5