{"id":7950,"date":"2023-09-25T20:57:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T01:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2023-09-25T20:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T01:57:48","slug":"timecrest-a-game-with-personality-and-accessibility-meet-justin-ng-co-founder-of-sneaky-crab-a-developer-building-in-accessibility-from-the-ground-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=7950","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Timecrest &#8211; A Game with Personality and accessibility. Meet Justin Ng, Co-founder of Sneaky Crab &#8211; A Developer Building in Accessibility from the Ground Up!<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8890\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7950-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/blindabilities\/timeCrest.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/blindabilities\/timeCrest.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/blindabilities\/timeCrest.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Podcast Summary:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin Ng is part of a two-person team that made&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sneakycrab.com\/timecrest3\/\">Timecrest<\/a>, an iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch game that has won AppleVis accessibility awards for Best Game and Developer of the Year, inducted into the AppleVis Hall of Fame, featured on Apple&#8217;s App Store Best Of list, and was recommended by the New York Times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sneakycrab.com\/timecrest3\/\">Timecrest<\/a>&nbsp;was designed to be accessible from the ground up. the Sneaky Crab Team are sighted, but learned how to use their phones with screen curtain on and using only VoiceOver, and their personal experience and a significant amount of user feedback led to them creating many features for their game that were specific to VoiceOver that sighted users would never even know about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesse Anderson from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0ZrgEzJQeZgEo5A2ERu0NA\">Illegally Sighted YouTube Channel<\/a>&nbsp;and Jeff Thompson from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/\">Blind abilities<\/a>, talk to Justin about developing accessible games as sighted people, to their process of writing the story for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sneakycrab.com\/timecrest3\/\">Timecrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sneakycrab.com\/timecrest3\/\">Timecrest<\/a>&nbsp;is an epic fantasy with over 640,000 words and interesting choices and mysteries, and they also have a lot of thoughts on the art of storytelling!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sneakycrab.com\/timecrest3\/\">Timecrest<\/a>&nbsp;on the web at https:\/\/www.sneakycrab.com\/timecrest3\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/timecrest\/id1027546326\">Timecrest app on the Apple Store!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can follow us on Twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/blindabilities\">@BlindAbilities<\/a><br>On the web at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/\">www.BlindAbilities.com<\/a><br>Send us an&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@BlindAbilities.com?subject=Podcast\">email<\/a>&nbsp;and give us a call at 612-367-6093, we would love to hear from you!<br><br>Get the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/blind-abilities\/id1085849859?l=es&amp;mt=8\">Free Blind Abilities App&nbsp;on the App Store<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.blindabilities.android.blind&amp;hl=en_US\">Google Play Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give us a call and leave us some feedback at 612-367-6093 we would love to hear from you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/607027582712671\/\">Blind Abilities Community<\/a>&nbsp;on Facebook, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BlindAbilities\/\">Blind Abilities Page<\/a>, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/jobinsightsgroup\">Career Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8892\"><audio 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