The Tactile Carnival

I had to decline a TC event in Virginia this month, too far away. That was a disability aid education/awareness event. Without Pops, my ranger is very limited. In spite of everything, the Tactile Carnival isn’t officially dead yet. Still developing new tactile games and redesigning old ones.

Latest project was redesigning Stock Market Madness. The original wasn’t tactile enough. New version is totally tactile. Includes four pairs of tactile dice, each with its own dice drop tower and tray to keep them separate. The dice determine whether stock categories go up or down and by how much. The stock point value board has a big tactile bump beneath each spot, making it easy to slide the magnetic markers on the rows. The markers are different sizes: higher risk means taller marker for easy distinction. Instead of share certificates, I switched to shar e tokens. Each token as a different shape: circle, rectangle, pentagon and hexagon. The more corners the token has, the higher the risk for that type of stock. Makes it easy to remember which is which. Also aided trend clue cards. And it all fits neatly in a tray to keep that organized, except for the point value board, which the player can move around. It’s a better game than the original and loads more tactile.