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How many layers can be peeled before it's not a video game anymore?
Just remove the video part. Now it's just a "game."
It will also be more accessible to the blind, being audio only.
The deaf? What about them?
Oh. Why didn't I think of that!?
I remember people discussing that Dear Esther was not a video game.
I honestly think it would be interesting to play a game by sound alone, where you play as a blind person (maybe Daredevil or Zatoichi or something) and you navigate the world by listening. Ironically, it'd probably need to be on a VR headset so that the game can detect you turning/tilting your head and adjust the stereo balance accordingly.
Maybe Zatoichi would be best, as you could hear an enemy swinging a sword like "SHING" and "SWOOSH" etc, and maybe that would give you enough information to block or dodge. You'd probably also need haptic feedback to tell you when your blade connects.
Maybe there could be graphics, but only to recreate the sense of smell, like the screen is pure black except when you smell something and then a word appears on the screen like "rose" or "blood" etc.
There is some game where you are blind any the only thing you can see is blood from what ever you killed splashed on the walls. Totally forget what it's called. But yea yours sounds cooler
The flash game The Blind Swordsman does something like this.