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I've never played Settlers of Catan or similar games for the same reason I didn't try WoW for so long: afraid that my visual impairment would slow me down.

Braille and large print adaptations of games seem to be limited to the games we now regard as most generic: chess, checkers, Battleship, and Scrabble.

Maybe this is a problem I can solve. I'll go to the game store and start asking questions.

In other news, I'm feeling better enough that I'm having ideas again. It remains to be seen whether I'll stick with any of them to completion this time.

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[ziabatsu.livejournal.com]

how do you manage at work? is it just small resolution and high contrast?
Although there aren't any large print adaptations of catan, I do think some of the tiles might be bigger in other versions

And on the subject of catan itself, a lot of the cards and material is color co=ordinated
you would have problems with development cards, and maybe dice, resource numbers and piece placement.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

At work I bump the resolution down, though at home with the Mac I use ZoomText and ctrl-scrollwheel to whatever I need.

I stopped by Game Depot today to ask about this. The resource numbers, as they come out of the box, seem to come in a bit of a low-contrast font, so maybe those could be improved.

[ziabatsu.livejournal.com]

I could bring my copy and teach you, tuesday would be the best day. you can learn with 2, but three would be better.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

sounds plausible. I'll be home around 6:30-ish, earlier if someone can pick me up from work.

You can see if jecook is up for it as well.