Sense Your Own Adventure

Sample Screen
Wrong Spelling
No Words To Practice
Words To Practice

Inspiration

There are not many fun digital opportunities for children who have visual disabilities. When we were children, we had a variety of games to train our muscle memory to use the keyboard without looking, which is called touch typing. We wanted to bring this experience to all children.

What it does

Sense Your Own Adventure not only teaches blind children how to get used to the keyboard, but it also provides them with an auditory experience and lets their imaginations visualize their scenario.

How we built it

We used ReactJS for building the frontend and housing the javascript logic for going through the story. The style sheets were made using Sass. We used MongoDB to hold the story nodes and convert that to a .JSON file to give our functions the data.

Challenges we ran into

Game design Since this was the first game we created, it took us quite a while to draw out the concept map of our game logic. Getting the text-to-speech to work Internet browsers have started to depreciate the Text-To-Speech accessibility features to prevent people from misusing it. Implementing it in spite of the depreciation and limitations took some time and complex calculations.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Not only is this the game we created, but it is also the first application we’ve built with React.

What we learned

We learned how to create a React App and created a game.

What's next for Sense Your Own Adventure

We look forward to adding tutorials to actually learn the keys, not assume the user already knows and it’s just review, so if the user gets it wrong, the game can teach them where the key is. We would also want to add more stories and levels.