Bubbles The Cat Accessibility Report - Android, PC and iOS

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Bubbles
The Cat

Accessibility Report

15 Accessibility Features

We've documented 15 accessibility features for Bubbles The Cat, including Large Text, Guaranteed Progress, Custom Difficulty, 1 Button and High Contrast Text. Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Visual but it also has features in Reading, Getting Started, Difficulty, Navigation and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.

This report is created with input from accessibility experts and the player community to help people find games that have the accessibility features they require. Once you have found potential games on the database, there are excellent specialist accessibility sites that offer in-depth reviews to guide your purchasing decisions.

Bubbles The Cat is a platform game you play by tapping a single button to jump. Through hundreds of levels and six worlds, you automatically run forwards but you must tap at the right time to survive.

Our accessibility examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Bubbles The Cat accessibility 2 years ago.

Accessibility Notes

Reading: There is minimal reading and text is clear (although not adjustable).

Game Details

Release Date: 12/04/2019

Out Now: Android, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Action, Platform and Traversal

Accessibility: 15 features

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Developer: Team Cats N Bears (@TeamCatsNBears)

Costs: Purchase cost

Controls

We've documented 4 accessibility features for Controls in Bubbles The Cat which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.

Gamepad

Can play with the following:

1 Button: Can play with a single button.

Mouse And Keyboard

Can play with the following:

Mouse Alone: Can play with just the mouse/mouse-button/mouse wheel.

Remap Controls

Can customise the controls for the game as follows:

Remap Game Menu Access: Can remap buttons to pause, access and navigate the game menu. This enables you to specify which buttons pop-up the game menu.Whether you can remap menu navigation buttons isn't considered here.

Controller Vibration

Vibration Optional: Controller vibration not used in the game or you can disable it.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls

If you want to play Bubbles The Cat, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:

Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered (10 Controls Features)
Zool Redimensioned (8 Controls Features)
Summer Catchers (8 Controls Features)
OCO (7 Controls Features)

Difficulty

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Difficulty in Bubbles The Cat which deals with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play.

Difficulty Options

Customise Difficulty: Customise different aspects of the game to create a challenge of an appropriate level. Adjusting elements individually enables you to tailor gameplay to suit your needs and style of play.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Difficulty

If you want to play Bubbles The Cat, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Difficulty accessibility:

Zool Redimensioned (3 Difficulty Features)
Marsupilami: Hoobadventure (2 Difficulty Features)
Pompom (2 Difficulty Features)
Kick Bot (2 Difficulty Features)

Getting Started

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Getting Started in Bubbles The Cat which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.

Assistance For Progressing

These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.

Guaranteed Progress With God Mode: There is no fail state for any game level, where you lose progress or have to start again. Or there are options to make failing impossible: infinite health or lives, unlimited time. Sometimes called God Mode or Unfailable.

Assisted Progress With Hints: The game notices if you get stuck (or you can press a button) and provides information to help you progress. This can offer hints or tutorials popping up during play. This includes hints after you have died, where it can suggest strategies or difficulty settings to adjust or offer to skip past problematic levels.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started

If you want to play Bubbles The Cat, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:

Night Skate (5 Getting Started Features)
PJ Masks: Heroes of the Night (5 Getting Started Features)
Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered (5 Getting Started Features)
Qomp (5 Getting Started Features)

Reading

We've documented 3 accessibility features for Reading in Bubbles The Cat which deal with how much reading or listening comprehension is required, how well the game provides visual and audible access to the text and whether subtitles and captions are a good fit for purpose.

Reading Level

How much reading is required to play the game's main path or story and how complex the language is. The presence of voiced characters doesn't reduce this requirement, as it's recorded as a separate datapoint.

Simple Minimal Reading: Minimal reading is required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a primary/elementary student (9-year-old) could understand.

Text Visibility

Large Clear Text: All essential text is large and clear or can be adjusted to be. The general text used throughout the game in menus, instructions and other key information (excluding subtitles that are assessed separately) is at least 1/20 (46 pixels on 1080 screen) the height on landscape screens and at least 1/40 height on portrait screens. We base this on the full line-height, including the space above and below the letters.

High Contrast Text: Text colour contrasts to the background or can be adjusted to be. The text in menus, instructions and other information is presented in high contrast with a solid background.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading

If you want to play Bubbles The Cat, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:

Pompom (6 Reading Features)
PJ Masks: Heroes of the Night (6 Reading Features)
Playerless: One Button Adventure (6 Reading Features)
Pyro Jump Rescue (5 Reading Features)

Navigation

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Navigation in Bubbles The Cat which deals with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.

Menu Navigation

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation

If you want to play Bubbles The Cat, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:

PJ Masks: Heroes of the Night (5 Navigation Features)
Pyro Jump Rescue (4 Navigation Features)
Night Skate (4 Navigation Features)
Ori and the Blind Forest (3 Navigation Features)

Visual

We've documented 4 accessibility features for Visual in Bubbles The Cat which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.

Visual Distractions

No Flashes: No flashing strobe effects or you can disable them. This includes the absence of flashing from dramatic visual effects, explosions or weather effects like lightning.

No Screen Shake: No screen shake effect or it is included but it can be disabled. This includes the absence of screen shake for dramatic effect as well as to indicate hits on a target.

No Busy Backgrounds: No distracting backgrounds or you can make them static or blank. This includes the absence of other movement elements in the background that might distract or confuse the action. Where foreground contrast is high, this includes games with some movement in the background that doesn't make it overly difficult to distinguish what is happening.

Colour Options

Colour Adjustments: Adjust colours of characters or game elements for greater visibility. Includes the ability to select which type of colour blind mode you require.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual

If you want to play Bubbles The Cat, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:

Pyro Jump Rescue (7 Visual Features)
Qomp (7 Visual Features)
Night Skate (6 Visual Features)
Pompom (6 Visual Features)

Audio

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Bubbles The Cat which deals with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.

Adjustable Audio

Balance Audio Levels: Set music and game sound effects separately. This enables you to select your preference as well as ensure critical game sounds aren't obscured by other audio.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio

If you want to play Bubbles The Cat, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:

Pompom (3 Audio Features)
Kick Bot (3 Audio Features)
Zool Redimensioned (3 Audio Features)
Night Skate (2 Audio Features)

System Accessibility Settings

In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:

Android
Android has accessibility settings including ways to navigate and interact, although not all games support this.

PC
Windows has extensive accessibility features. Some, like colour correction, work with games. Lots of accessibility software can be used with PC games, from voice recognition to input device emulators.

iOS
iOS has a very extensive suite of accessibility settings including ways to navigate with voice and comprehensive screen reading, though most of the features don't work with games.

Read more about system accessibility settings.

Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Andy Robertson