VR Medieval Mysteries

VR Medieval Mysteries is a VR game made for vision-impaired players as a student project.  Players move around by tilting their head, and make choices by fixing their gaze on noisy characters or props.  Every object in the scene makes a sound regularly and will be named if gazed at.

The project was made by a student group at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment, Adelaide, South Australia, in 2016.  Voice actors from the Adelaide College of the Arts donated the voices, sound engineers from SAE Adelaide donated their time, SAE also donated studio space, and vision impaired people from the Royal Society for Blind People spent hours providing feedback and guidance.
A fat woman wearing a fancy medieval hat glares from the corner of a room with stone walls. There is a doorway behind her and a shelf unit with graffiti on it in front of her.
You are a detective straight out of the academy and the Lady of the Manor doesn't think you're going to solve any mysteries.
A map shows village huts and trees beside a market, a bell tower, stables, a dragon house, a guardhouse, and a forge. There are numbered squares on the map representing missions.
Every item has a sound and if you stare at it, it names itself. The map in your office only lets you choose the first (tutorial) mission.
A worried giant woman carrying a basket faces the viewer with a witch arrogantly looking aside behind her, on a flat area with a shed and a wall behind them both.
You are transported to the site of your first mystery. Something has turned this woman's cat invisible! She can hear it but she can't see it.
A witch and a giant woman with a basket stand beside a cottage with a shed in the distance behind them.
You walk around by tilting your head down. You hear the dragons in the north, the blacksmith in the east, the mill in the south and the bell tower in the west to keep yourself oriented.
Upward view of the chimney of a cottage.
You find the cat has been shoved up the chimney. The ecstatic cat woman mentions the lore of a wider mystery. But in the meantime you need to find out who hid the cat.
Upward view showing an orb in the sky.
The Detective Power in the Sky explains if you ask for a clue you won't get a trophy when you solve the mystery.
On a flat area with trees and a cottage behind them stand a goblin, a witch and a giant woman with a basket.
You walk around looking for a clue.
A farmer with a lamb in her pocket stands next to a poker.
You find a clue - there is a humming poker on the ground with wailing cat hairs on it.
A blacksmith and a goblin stand in front of cottages and trees.
You interview suspects by staring at them. Memory won't help because the perpetrator is randomly assigned each time the scene is played.
A goblin stands in front of cottages and trees.
All the suspects have cat scratches, and excuses for them.
A goblin looks down at his hand which has a lump of cat hairs in it.
Only one suspect has cat hair on them.
Ground view of the witch's skirt and the giant woman's legs, showing an open warning book.
You can choose to warn your suspect. That way they have to make redress and then go back into the community. They are grateful and will give you a gift.
Ground view showing the detective's own red shoes, and a pair of shackles.
You can choose to arrest your suspect. That way they will go to the dungeons and the Lady of the Manor will give you a trophy.
A goblin stands in front of trees and cottages.
The suspect reacts according to whether they are innocent or guilty. If you are wrong, you guess again until you get it right.
A witch stands in front of a shed and trees.
After you have identified the villain, you find out more about the lore of the village. You go back to your office where you have been promoted and you have a trophy or a gift.
The game was never properly finished or published but it serves as a proof of concept that a game can be fun and playable by both blind and sighted players.  Its website is https://vrmedievalmysteries.com/index.html.