Really love Pixies, and I agree the art can be a real draw for a card that might not score you the most points. After I played for the first time on BGA I had to source a physical copy! Fortunately a friend was able to pick it up for me at UK Games Expo. I then introduced it to some friends who also bought a copy - definitely well loved here!
This small-box line from Bombyx has been incredible, so far. Sea, Salt & Paper & Pixies are both bangers and as a colour blind person I'm grateful that they use the universal colour alphabet. If every publisher did that, I'd be happy :)
If you don't mind me asking, do you think the universal color alphabet works as well as it could? I think it's very clever, but I'm stumped as to how two of the icons are identical when rotated, which doesn't make sense when you're viewing cards across the table from different angles.
@@jameystegmaier Thanks for asking! Frankly, I don't think it's the best solution. I've played those two games countless times and if you asked me to draw the symbols from memory I wouldn't be able to. I understand there is some internal logic to it but the symbols don't represent the colours "intuitively", if that makes sense. However, I always appreciate the gesture towards A solution even if it's not perfect.
@@jameystegmaier From our point of view (I am the CEO of Bombyx), the orientation of the cards helps people determine whether they are red or blue. But, this alphabet now offers a solution to this issue: they added a small line under the symbols to indicate its bottom (as for the 6 and the 9, for example). Maybe ColorADD is not the perfect solution, but it is universal and global, and this is the most interesting point from my point of view. I mean that if several publishers start using it, color-blind people have to learn only one code for colors and not a new one for every game. Regarding the fact that the symbols don't intuitively represent the colors: the alphabet uses the primal colors system (one symbol for red and one for yellow; if you use both symbols together, it is orange). So, when you learn the three symbols, you can do almost all the colors intuitively.
@@hazgaard I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on the system. I definitely like that it exists; I just wish that understanding each icon was independent of its current orientation, given that we sit in different positions around the table when playing games. But it's certainly better than no system at all!
