Bring me your finest meats and cheeses! And saffron and cinnamon! I can finally play Century: Spice Road! Modern board gaming, as an industry, continues to struggle with accessibility. Fortunately, gamers are finding workarounds to deal with these limitations. Last year, Sarah Reed shared her efforts to modify Qwirkle and Incan Gold to make them … Continue reading Colorblind Mod – Century: Spice Road
Colorblind Review and Mod: BRIKKS
Image Source: Stronghold Games In the late 1980s, Nintendo released the Game Boy, the world's first portable video game system, and along with it introduced Tetris to millions of players. Game Boy Tetris was my constant companion for years, in no small part due to its inherent colorblind-friendly interface. As a greyscale game system, I … Continue reading Colorblind Review and Mod: BRIKKS
Colorblind Preview: Agropolis
Life on the farm. We received a complementary prototype copy of Agropolis from Buttonshy Games for this preview. Some game elements may change in the final version. Final color correction is not complete, so all comments related to color refer exclusively to the pre-published prototype. During the day I work as a traffic engineer and … Continue reading Colorblind Preview: Agropolis
Colorblind Preview: Cascadia
Eternal Blue. Forever Green. In Cascadia, players place habitat tiles and wildlife tokens to create their own corner of the Pacific Northwest. Each ecosystem is scored based on each animal's spatial preferences and the size of contiguous habitats. Cascadia is a quick-to-learn, quick-to-play tile layer that elicits the question, "One more game"? Board games with … Continue reading Colorblind Preview: Cascadia
Colorblind Games Profile: Eric Slauson
Over the past year, I’ve had the pleasure to learn how colorblind designers, developers, artists, and publishers have both overcome and leveraged their color vision deficiency to make great games. I was excited to connect with Eric Slauson -- designer of Tattoo Stories, Nerd Words: Science, and the upcoming MonsDRAWsity -- about his experience. … Continue reading Colorblind Games Profile: Eric Slauson
Colorblind Review – Star Wars: Destiny
"I am your density." -George McFly Summer 1987: Most of my paper route earnings disappeared 33 cents at a time for packs of Topps baseball cards, which was my entry into the dopamine hit of card packs. Would I score a Mark McGwire? Bo Jackson? Or another Pat Tabler. Winter 2001: Now all grown up, … Continue reading Colorblind Review – Star Wars: Destiny
Colorblind App Review: Lost Cities
An elegant solution. Board game apps tend to be hit-and-miss when it comes to accessibility features, so when I encounter a color vision issue I often just uninstall and move on. Lost Cities started out problematic for me. The card colors are subtle, and the faded card-placement spots above them even more so. In particular, … Continue reading Colorblind App Review: Lost Cities
Colorblind Review – Century: Spice Road
Spiceless in Seattle. Century: Spice Road looks like my kind of game, I've heard great things about it, and I love cardamom! But without a major redesign of all game elements, colorblind gamers like me simply cannot play it. I can't confidently name any color in the image above. Some are darker than others. … Continue reading Colorblind Review – Century: Spice Road
Colorblind Kudos: Dungeon Ball
As a colorblind gamer, I often start my visit to a Kickstarter board game campaign by asking this question: "Can I even play this?" Often, the answer is no. My first look at Dungeon Ball on Kickstarter didn't go well. The reds and greens were problematic from the start, and I did not see a … Continue reading Colorblind Kudos: Dungeon Ball
Colorblind Games Profile: Will Reed
As I discovered while reviewing Tiny Towns and reaching out to Peter McPherson, players are not the only colorblind members of the board game community. Designers, developers, graphic artists, illustrators, and publishers can have vision deficiencies, too. Sarah Reed recently guest-posted about her experience modifying games for use by her colorblind friends and family. She … Continue reading Colorblind Games Profile: Will Reed
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