Lowtek Games

Factsheet

Developer:
Lowtek Games
Based in Dundee, Scotland

Release date:
Coming Soon

Platforms:
Unity Asset

Website:
http://www.lowtek.games

Regular Price:

Description

DiSLECTEK is a Unity asset that allows the developer to quickly and easily add assistive, dyslexia focused text to the speech system to their game. It’s estimated that 1 in 5 people are dyslexic. This project was created to allow those people to enjoy the games they otherwise wouldn't. I am dyslexic and the only thing that works for me is text to speech, so that's what we built.

History

Lowtek Games founder Alastair Low is severely dyslexic. He like many others has struggled with reading in games from not knowing when to attack in final fantasy 7 to any item descriptions in Dark Souls and the apparently hilarious dialogue in games like Undertale. He was excited to see some developers include dyslexia options in their games but was left unsatisfied with most implementations being simple font swaps to fonts that have been proven to have little effect in multiple studies. So he began designing a system that he thought could be universal across all games and easly implemented. An InGAME R and D voucher was granted to the project and the Development of the prototype began. -

How it works for the Developer:
They import the package
Link a ui menu button to toggle it on and and off
And thats it

How it works for the player:
The player enables the option in the games menu then presses an onscreen button or keyboard key which brings up an overlay and pauses the game.
The pause is to allow for the player to go through any option without any time pressure as speed of processing is often something affected by dyslexia.

Future Plans:
We hope to expand upon this prototype to support more platforms and potentially more engines further down the line.

Features

• Easy to implement
• Small bundle size
• Allows dyslexic users to read text in your game
• Will support windows, mac, ios and android in the future (Windows only now)
• Supports user installed voices

DiSLECTEK Credits

Alastair Low
Business & Development, LowtekGames

InGame
Programming Voucher

Contact

Inquiries
info@lowtek.games

Twitter
https://twitter.com/Wallmasterr

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/lowtekgames

Web
http://lowtek.games