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Xbox X|SWe've documented 16 accessibility features for A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, including Large Text, Adjust Speed, Low Pressure, One Motion Targeted and Colour Blind Friendly. Its accessibility is strongest in Visual and Getting Started but it also has features in Reading, Controls and Navigation to reduce unintended barriers.
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Game Details
Release Date: 01/12/2018
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Brain Game, Traversal (Creative and Puzzle)
Accessibility: 16 features
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Costs: Purchase cost
Controls
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Controls in A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.
Mouse And Keyboard
Can play with the following:
Mouse and Keys: Can play with mouse and multiple keys.
Touchscreen
Can play with the following. Additional gestures may be required for games played with a screenreader like VoiceOver.
One Motion Targeted: Can play with touchscreen, tap and swipe or hold gesture.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls
If you want to play A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:
- Paquerette Down the Bunburrows (15 Controls Features)
- Paper Trail (13 Controls Features)
- Swim Out (11 Controls Features)
- Puddle Knights (11 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Difficulty in A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build which deal with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play. The following games are similar to A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, and offer accessibility features for Difficulty:
- Legend Of The Skyfish (2 Difficulty Features)
- Toodee and Topdee (2 Difficulty Features)
- Inner Tao (1 Difficulty Feature)
- Not Not, A Brain-Buster (1 Difficulty Feature)
Getting Started
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Getting Started in A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build 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 Getting Starting
These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.
Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.
Low Pressure: Game tasks aren't time-limited or there's a low-pressure mode. This avoids the pressure of being put on the clock for overarching missions, or failing tasks because you didn't reach a destination in time.
Adjust Speed: Adjust the speed of the game at critical moments or throughout, or rewind play for a second attempt, to ease reaction times. By slowing the game, you have more time to interpret what is happening and then execute your actions. It also reduces the pressure on getting things right quickly or the first time you attempt them.
Assistance For Progressing
These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.
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 A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- A Monster's Expedition (9 Getting Started Features)
- Paquerette Down the Bunburrows (8 Getting Started Features)
- Block Buster Billy (8 Getting Started Features)
- Paper Trail (8 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Reading in A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build 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 A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Paper Trail (7 Reading Features)
- Sneaky Sasquatch (6 Reading Features)
- Paquerette Down the Bunburrows (5 Reading Features)
- Bleep Bloop (5 Reading Features)
Navigation
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Navigation in A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build 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.
Clarity
Large Clear Navigation: The in-game navigation and maps are clear to read. They offer large text and offer markers that are large and of high contrast. Where text or information is small, there are settings to zoom-in and increase visibility.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation
If you want to play A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:
- Am I The Baddie? (5 Navigation Features)
- Paquerette Down the Bunburrows (4 Navigation Features)
- Lab Rat (4 Navigation Features)
- A Monster's Expedition (4 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 6 accessibility features for Visual in A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.
Contrast
Medium Contrast: Game uses generally well contrasting and bright visuals, or has a slider to make this the case.
Interactive Elements
Large Game Elements: Game characters and other elements are large and distinguishable. Enemies and player characters are at least 1/6 of the height of the screen. Or there is a zoom feature to make them larger.
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 Blind Friendly: Game doesn’t rely on colour or can switch to colour blind friendly mode with double coding or similar way to avoid colour dependance.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual
If you want to play A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Konkan Coast Pirate Solutions (9 Visual Features)
- Room to Grow (9 Visual Features)
- Paquerette Down the Bunburrows (8 Visual Features)
- Wilmot's Warehouse (8 Visual Features)
Audio
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Audio in A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build which deal 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. The following games are similar to A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, and offer accessibility features for Audio:
- Paquerette Down the Bunburrows (3 Audio Features)
- Konkan Coast Pirate Solutions (3 Audio Features)
- Paper Trail (3 Audio Features)
- Inner Tao (3 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.
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games.
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
