00:00 - Intro

01:48 - Online Rulebooks & FAQs

07:20 - How Rules are Written & Reference Cards

15:19 - How to Play Videos & Objective Context

20:12 - Learning, Teaching & Co-op Games

23:18 - How to Play Video Availability

26:19 - Player Strategy Guides

32:35 - Learning Asymmetric Games

44:22 - Game Phases & Changes

48:15 - Closing Thoughts

53:00 - Outro

Abletop Episode 1 Quick Points:

🖥️ Provide digital versions of rules that also work with a screen reader.

📼 Provide a how to play video, freely available, to allow different ways of learning.

🤔 Provide online FAQs for your game and have a link to them on your box or rulebook.

📃Provide an index in larger rulebooks, and bolden key pages for the entry.

🧝 Avoiding writing rules ‘in universe’, try to use common terms and clear language.

🗝️ Highlight keywords to help them stand out in rules and on components.

📑 Provide glossaries of game terms, especially any unique to your game.

📔 Provide reference cards or incorporate references onto player boards.

💭 Consider the information layout of your rulebook, is information laid out in a logical way for a new player?

🏆 Provide context for the game goal; what is the end goal, and provide that near the start of the rulebook and consider reminders on player boards.

🎮 Provide sample turns and guided tutorials for more complex games and remember to include the context of why, not just what.

♟️ Provide example strategies or character builds in more complex games.

🖐️ Encourage open-handed first plays in your rules for competitive games.

🏈 Discourage quarter-backing play in your rules for cooperative games.

🌖 Provide help for when rules change such as reference cards or warnings on a round tracker that a change is coming up.

🎛️ Provide game variants and accommodations in your rulebook that help alleviate accessibility barriers.

🔓 Encourage players to bend rules when something is inaccessible!