For colorblind board gamers, the most significant challenge is usually identifying player pieces. Even in games that are otherwise colorblind-friendly, most games continue to distinguish multiple players' components by color alone. I've developed customized solutions to solve the problem, including custom markings on my own games: dots on the purple to distinguish them from blue, … Continue reading Accessibility Tip: Bring Your Own Meeples
Colorblind Games Review: Propolis
In Propolis—designed by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and Shawn Stankewich—players deploy worker bees to collect pollen, fortify their positions, and construct hives to appease their queen. It combines worker placement, resource management, area control, and tableau building in a small box. Propolis plays 1-4 in about 20-30 minutes. Gameplay Games with a combination of many … Continue reading Colorblind Games Review: Propolis
Accessibility Review Roundup: 2024
To wrap up 2024, I'm writing a series of mini-reviews for board games new to me this year. You'll see a variety of accessibility barriers and some excellent mitigations to help make these games playable for colorblind and low-vision players. The Isle of Cats Explore & Draw I purchased The Isle of Cats: Explore and … Continue reading Accessibility Review Roundup: 2024
Colorblind Games Preview | Knitting Circle
Knitting Circle, designed by Emily Vincent and illustrated by Beth Sobel, is the newest in the long-running series of tile-laying puzzle games from Flatout Games. Players compete as knitters creating the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Knitting Circle lives in the Calico (Colorblind Games review) universe, bringing the same charming art, graphic design, and … Continue reading Colorblind Games Preview | Knitting Circle
Colorblind Games Review and Mod | Quirky Circuits
Quirky Circuits: Penny & Gizmo's Snow Day! was designed by Nikki Valens with art by Danalyn Reyes, and published by Plaid Hat Games in 2022. It is a budget-friendly implementation of the original Quirky Circuits (2019) by the same team, replacing the four robots from the original with two characters in this version. Note: the … Continue reading Colorblind Games Review and Mod | Quirky Circuits
Colorblind Games Review and Mods | Hadrian’s Wall
Roll/Flip/Verb-and-Write games have become some of my favorite tabletop experiences, from some of the simplest like Criss Cross and QWIXX, to my current favorite: Cartographers (Colorblind Games review). Hadrian's Wall takes the complexity to the next level for a flip-and-write game. Designed by Bobby Hill, with art by Sam Phillips, and published by Garphill Games … Continue reading Colorblind Games Review and Mods | Hadrian’s Wall
Colorblind Games Review | Hickory Dickory
Dear Mice and Meeces of Tockton Clock - Wax your whiskers and straighten your tails, for you are hereby invited to the Royal Scavenger Hunt! In Hickory Dickory - designed by Sawyer West, art by Sonja Müller, and published by Plaid Hat Games - players act as a team of mice searching for items on … Continue reading Colorblind Games Review | Hickory Dickory
Colorblind Games Review | Scribbly Gum
Postmark Games does it again. Scribbly Gum: Print at Home Edition is designed by Phil Walker-Harding with illustrations by Meredith Walker-Harding. It's co-published by Joey Games and Postmark Games, and it plays 1-99+ in about 20 minutes. This is a reimplementation of Scribbly Gum (also by the Walker-Hardings, also from Joey Games) from 2023. Gameplay … Continue reading Colorblind Games Review | Scribbly Gum
Colorblind Games Review | Wolves
Wolves, designed by Connor Alexander (Cherokee Nation) with art by Sa'dekaronhes Esquivel (Kanyen'kehà:ka/Mexican Indigenous) and Ovila Mailhot (Sto:lo / Nlaka'pamux Nation) is published by Coyote & Crow LLC, a Native owned company that focuses on raising the voices of marginalized creators and presenting Indigenous concepts in tabletop games. Wolves is the next board game in … Continue reading Colorblind Games Review | Wolves
Colorblind Games Preview | Cascadia: Rolling
The bluest skies you've ever seen... and the hills the greenest green... Cascadia is one of my all-time favorite games—a breezy tile-layer I find delightful. For the upcoming Cascadia: Rolling Rivers and Cascadia: Rolling Hills, Flatout Games and AEG brought back the original team (designer Randy Flynn, illustrator Beth Sobel) and added Fertessa Alysse (development … Continue reading Colorblind Games Preview | Cascadia: Rolling
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