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Color blindness and modern board games
Alessandro Rizzi
  Alessandro Rizzi
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Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Spiele-Autoren-Zunft e.V. - Italy Group, Italy
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Matteo Sassi
  Matteo Sassi
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Spiele-Autoren-Zunft e.V. - Italy Group, Italy
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  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2023.35.15.COLOR-184  Published Online :  January 2023
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Board game industry is experiencing a strong renewed interest. In the last few years, about 4000 new board games have been designed and distributed each year. Board game players gender balance is reaching the equality, but nowadays the male component is a slight majority. This means that (at least) around 10% of board game players are color blind. How does the board game industry deal with this ? Recently, a raising of awareness in the board game design has started but so far there is a big gap compared with (e.g.) the computer game industry. This paper presents some data about the actual situation, discussing exemplary cases of successful board games.

Journal Title : Electronic Imaging
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Alessandro Rizzi, Matteo Sassi, "Color blindness and modern board games"  in Electronic Imaging,  2023,  pp 184-1 - 184-6,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2023.35.15.COLOR-184

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Color blindness and modern board games
RizziAlessandro
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Spiele-Autoren-Zunft e.V. - Italy Group, Italy
SassiMatteo
Spiele-Autoren-Zunft e.V. - Italy Group, Italy
Abstract
Board game industry is experiencing a strong renewed interest. In the last few years, about 4000 new board games have been designed and distributed each year. Board game players gender balance is reaching the equality, but nowadays the male component is a slight majority. This means that (at least) around 10% of board game players are color blind. How does the board game industry deal with this ? Recently, a raising of awareness in the board game design has started but so far there is a big gap compared with (e.g.) the computer game industry. This paper presents some data about the actual situation, discussing exemplary cases of successful board games.
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