Please give feedback for my proof of concept of game navigation!

I am studying at the university my major is software engineering and minor is software accessibility for blind and visually impaired.

As part of a study i made a proof of concept “game” in godot. Its a simple set piece of a grocery store.

And a control system similar to navstick. If someone would download it and explore for 5 to 10 minutes and give me a feedback it would be very cool for my study.

Only requirement is controller. I used dualshock 4, don’t know about others they should work. let me know if there is a problem.

Controls are:

- left stick move

  • right stick to look around via “scanning beam”
  • right bumper to turn to scan direction
  • right trigger to turn to last scanned object
  • A button (bottom one on button panel) replay sound of last scanned object

Once scanned object will make a noise and tts will anounce what object this is

If you bump in something there will be different noise

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MKXDH2XCmyR5ofQWGZKKs_8rMkRZ7piZ/view?usp=sharing

Questions:

- How comfortable was it for you to navigate the map using the gamepad? Did you feel in control of your movement?

  • Did you get tired during the exploration? If so, what exactly tired you out?
  • Were you able to mentally visualize the layout of the space (the arrangement of shelves, refrigerators, and checkout counters)?
  • Were there situations where you got stuck against a wall or couldn’t figure out where to go next? What did you do at that moment?
  • How intuitive did you find the terrain-scanning mechanic?
  • Did you quickly figure out how camera rotation toward the beam/the last scanned object works? Did you find this feature useful?
  • How would you rate the range of the beam? Was it too much, too little, or just right for this type of space?
  • When you aimed the beam at an object, how intuitive did you find the direction of the sound and the volume based on distance?
  • What did you miss most in this prototype?

If there is a community discord. I would be glad to talk there about it too.