Complex twisting narratives can easily lose or confuse anyone, but particularly gamers who have difficulty with memory or with understanding complex concepts.
As with other areas of accessibility, the key principle is avoiding unnecessary exclusion. There are plenty of games for which a complex narrative is the entire basis of the mechanic, but when this isn’t the case, avoid making a narrative more complex than it needs to be, or avoid making progress in the game conditional to having understood the narrative.
Category & Level:
- Cognitive (Intermediate)