How Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was built for accessibility

polygon.com:

Ahead of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s April 28 release date, Respawn Entertainment is outlining the customization options aimed at making the game more accessible. The developer posted the options on the Electronic Arts website on Tuesday, while also sharing what it learned from its 2019 release, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.

Publisher Electronic Arts has made a pledge outlining its commitment to making more accessible games, noting that the team hosted its first “in-house playtests” dedicated to accessibility and design for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

Respawn has added both difficulty and accessibility controls in Survivor — everything from subtitles to something the developer is calling “slow mode.” Slow mode is a toggle in the options menu that “allows players to slow down the action of the world in order to ease the challenge of both combat and platforming,” Respawn said in the post. It affects combat, platforming, and timing elements.

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“The Slow Mode has been a particularly exciting feature to work on because of its versatility,” Star WarsJedi: Survivor senior director of development Jonas Lundqvist said in the post. “It primarily started out as a feature that we thought would be helpful in combat, but quickly realized that it could be beneficial for anything that had a timing component. It opens up some of our platforming to be more accessible, allows for different reaction times and helps make the game generally more accessible to a larger audience.”

Here’s the list of options, straight from Respawn:

Control Customization: Players have the ability to remap their controls to suit their needs.

Subtitles & Closed Captions: Jedi: Survivorfeatures numerous toggles for subtitles and closed captions, letting you