An investigation is underway, that hopes to determine if the original MYST can be adapted for use by deaf players. If it can, the next step will be to make the necessary modifications available on the web. Preliminary thought and experimentation makes the prospect of success look promising. What is still needed is input from game designers and programmers who can address the difficulties of what has been proposed.

Interested parties are invited to participate in the discussion in the MYSTcommunity forum for this topic.

The project manager is Serrinatta

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The Discussion Thus Far: Major audio that needs to be converted in some way: Mazerunner Spaceship Fortress Rotation Selenitic Sounds Subtitling for all Speech Minor audio that may need to be converted: Fuse Switches Tower Rotation Tree Elevator Surfacing Ship Water Flow Generators Stoneship Pumps Audio that is only an option to convert: Ambient Music

Ideas Thus Far: Mazrunner: --vibration accessory --Symbolic representation --Color representation --Arrows Fortress: --See Mazerunner Space Ship: --Color Spectrum --Written version of the note Selenitic: --Symbols --Vibration accessory Tower Rotation: --shake screen --Vibration Accessory Tree Elevator: --See tower rotation Surfacing ship: --Also see Tower rotation Fuse Switches: --cartoon sound brackets Generators: --see Fuse Switches Water flow: --none Stoneship Pumps: --none Ambient: --none Music: --non-clashing artwork

Locations of Transcriptions of Speech:

http://www.dnidesk.com/refindex.html
http://www.dpwr.net/archive.php?showcat=54

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