With two decades of closing over 400 homes, Eric Hymowitz is the president of the Houston, Texas-based company ROC Homes. In his spare time, Eric Hymowitz plays board games with his family. Nyctophobia is a cooperative board game that tests’ players’ communication skills while also altering their sensory perception.
Unlike other board games, every player except one plays the game blindfolded. Catherine Stippel created Nyctophobia based on her experiences with her uncle, who was visually-impaired. Nyctophobia recreates his interactions with board games made for sighted audiences. Nyctophobia takes place in a forest at night. The hunter, the only player without a blindfold on, aims to kill the other players. The other players communicate verbally to create a mental map of the board. Players use tactile information to identify elements including their pawns, with distinctly-carved heads, Spikes representing trees, and the car, a piece occupying two spaces instead of one, the blindfolded players’ end goal. During each blindfolded player’s turn, the hunter places that player’s hand on their game piece. They can feel the spaces adjacent to them to determine where they want to go. Players can pick up rock tokens, used to make noise, which the hunter must move towards. A player can hide by inverting their piece, so the carved head embeds into the game board, but in return they cannot talk.
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