#Suburbia game instructions mod#
#Suburbia game instructions free#

Tiles are reasonably large and generous, but subdivided into smaller sections into which all the active information goes – it all stays in exactly the same places, and with a magnifying glass or other visual aid you know where you need to look for all the key information.

#Suburbia game instructions mod#

The shortness of the text means you could mod the tiles with braille if you were able to read that and had the necessary equipment, but otherwise your choices are limited other than relying on the players around you. The action text on the zones is short and unambiguous, but it’s also quite small and is crammed into a single quarter of the tiles. It requires a fair degree of being able to scan the board and look at areas in terms of adjacency to work out what the best placement for your new acquisition will be.

It’s also a game of complex contextual state management. Suburbia is a game of spatially linked state management. The story for those with significant visual impairment is less positive. Colour isn’t use as a unique identifier for game pieces.Ĭolour blindness in player boards. Certainly as far as the tokens go, it’s fine – you lose a little bit of the aesthetic, but you never lose information because each token also comes with an iconographic symbol that represents their type. Visual Accessibilityįor the most part, the colour choices for Suburbia are distinctive and key information is provided in multiple redundant forms.

#Suburbia game instructions free#

Suburbia is the first game to which we’re applying this, so please do feel free to let us know at what we’ve got right, what we’ve got wrong, and what we didn’t address. For this, we’ll be using our own bespoke, experimental diagnostic framework to focus attention on all the bits that matter. So, let’s talk about Suburbia again from the perspective of how inclusive it is. I’m sure you’ve all read our enthusiastic review of the excellent Suburbia, and our editorial about accessibility teardowns.

08/05/16: Updated the radar chart for the game, to accommodate the additional entry for communication.

08/05/16: Added an entry for communication, which has been added to the tear-downs since the original posting.

13/04/16: Added a radar graph of accessibility at the bottom.

13/04/16: Added a section on socioeconomic accessibility.

14/04/16: Added a couple of pictures to show impact of colour blindness.