Joking Hazard (2016) – Accessibility Teardown (NSFW)
by Michael Heron on 07/03/2020 in Accessibility Teardown, Board Game Accessibility
Table of Contents
- Version Reviewed
- Introduction
- Colour Blindness
- Visual Accessibility
- Cognitive Accessibility
- Emotional Accessibility
- Physical Accessibility
- Socioeconomic Accessibility
- Communication
- Intersectional Accessibility
- Conclusion
Game Details
Name
Joking Hazard (2016)
Review
Meeple Like Us
Complexity
Light [1.03]
BGG Rank
2110 [6.40]
Player Count (recommended)
3-10 (3-7)
Designer(s)
(Uncredited)
Buy it!
Amazon Link
Version Reviewed
English first edition
Introduction
Games like Joking Hazard often get treated with casual disdain in the hobbyist game reviewer space. ‘Not really for us’, we sniff while quaffing vintage meeples from a plastic goblet. ‘Gauche. Vulgar. Base. Low art’, we sneer while liberally loading refined d20 pate onto cardboard crackers. And yet, these games are popular in a way that most games cannot ever hope to be, because they forgoe the obsession with mechanical engineering and just give people a chance to have fun. Remember fun? It was huge in the eighties.
And I’m no better in that regard. This whole review corner of this blog is me being impossibly haughty about a topic that doesn’t matter at all. It’d be comical if it hadn’t occupied literal thousands of hours of my life at this point. [...]