Meeple Like Us is Michael Heron, the editor and main contributor to the site. By day he’s a university lecturer and accessibility researcher. Nights and weekends though he spends pretty much every free moment he has on the Meeple Like Us project. They review board-games and then break them down for their accessibility – they talk about the features of the games that might prevent someone being able to play. It takes a long time to do this – it is a job on top of a job, consuming anything from 20-40 hours of his time per week. The site also has running costs that include everything from buying games to paying for a content delivery network. They look a game a week, and their investigations are comprehensive. All of their accessibility work is available under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. And he loves it – he’s been running the site since the early 2016 and it has been a work of passion for him. It’s not so much a research interest as an obsession, and he is immensely gratified that it has gained so much attention over the time he’s been running it. He gets emails and messages that say how helpful the site has been for gamers with disabilities to find board-games they can play. He gets more still from those that have used the site and its master list for finding games they can play with their elderly or disabled relatives. Tabletop games matter because people matter, and games are just a way we can spend more time with the people we love. He is very happy that the site can, in his small way, assist people do that.
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