Sumatra

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Font Legibility — Uses a very stylish font that is difficult to distinguish letters, and numbers are hard to see (e.g., differentiating a 4 from a 9), making the core gameplay harder to understand.

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• One of my biggest board game gripes is picking up a giant box like this beautiful one from Santa Monica and then opening it up inside and realizing that when you take away the rule book look how much empty space is inside you could fit an entire midweight Euro in there like seriously look at all this space that's left over
• My next board game gripes is all about legibility of a game it really irritates me when a game is so well produced but then they pick a font that is so difficult to read
• My next board game gripe is to do with the packaging and it's when board game Publishers for some reason decide to use metal tins as a way of containing their games
• I just think is there a better way to do this and some games have really achieved some great Solutions
• My next board game gribe is one that I don't know if there's a real solution to because each game is unique and when you're teaching or explaining a game through a rule book or a video there's certain approaches that work best for some games and not so much for others
• The fact that I'm flicking back and forward and if you look carefully don't ever do this but I've actually highlighted certain phrases where I've played like three or four games of spirit Island I'm like this game is so easy how is everyone not winning this game and then I'm like oh I made like five rules errors simply because the information wasn't in the section that it should have been in when I was trying to learn the game from reading a book from front to end
• My Boku game now has little stickers uh so A friend bought me a set of stickers which I've attached to um all of my player pieces so now they def definitely stand out but without those stickers it's basically green on green on green
• I do find that whenever I look at the play time on the side of a box I do take it with a grain of salt in fact take the play time and add 60 Minutes to it that's probably a more accurate representation of how much time per player you're probably going to spend on the game
• What are some of your board game gripes Please feel free to list as many board game CES as you like in the comment section below because sometimes when we just air some of these things out we can kind of be like oh my goodness I've never thought of that oh my goodness this is such an important thing that a lot of people are struggling with and it's when we kind of share our struggles and share our experiences and our stories that we truly grow from this experience and hopefully we all have less board game gripes

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• grid-based scoring with GPS tokens — place collected items on a grid to score via various conditions
• research track with movement — collect and push the research token along a track

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