Poll: Colour blindness

[Hyoscine]

Anyone else here colour blind? What games have you not been able to play as a result? Does it bother you that developers rarely think to add a mode that makes puzzles, targeting, or whatever a little less colour reliant? Any game ever blown you away with it's inclusiveness in this respect?

A developer that does seem commendably aware of colour blindness is Valve. The colour blind mode in Left 4 Dead is brilliant, red versus blue is the next best thing to black versus white, and I'm not sure what colour the portals are in Portal, but they're really easy to distinguish. Hat's off, Valve.

 

[JaguarWong]

Yeah a little...

Most modern games just look grey and brown to me...

... oh wait...

 

[MisterAnarchist]

Red/Green is the most common color "deficiency", Yellow/Blue is the next most common. To find someone that is fully incapable of seeing color is extremely rare. So having red and blue as the teams works a large portion of the time even for people who are color "deficient".

 

[Ghost]

Anyone else here colour blind? What games have you not been able to play as a result? Does it bother you that developers rarely think to add a mode that makes puzzles, targeting, or whatever a little less colour reliant? Any game ever blown you away with it's inclusiveness in this respect?

A developer that does seem commendably aware of colour blindness is Valve. The colour blind mode in Left 4 Dead is brilliant, red versus blue is the next best thing to black versus white, and I'm not sure what colour the portals are in Portal, but they're really easy to distinguish. Hat's off, Valve.

no offence, but how can you tell what colour you're not seeing if you've never seen it? i probably sound like an ignorant git, but i know nothing about colour blindness to be honest :x

 

[Theo Samaritan]

A developer that does seem commendably aware of colour blindness is Valve. The colour blind mode in Left 4 Dead is brilliant, red versus blue is the next best thing to black versus white, and I'm not sure what colour the portals are in Portal, but they're really easy to distinguish. Hat's off, Valve.

I have to agree with you there on all counts, even though I am not colourblind.

Oh, and the portals are Blue (first portal you get) and Orange.

 

[Hookman]

In my right eye only. It can fuck up my perception when I'm playing some video games but its not too bad if I conecentrate.

 

[Hookman]

Anyone else here colour blind? What games have you not been able to play as a result? Does it bother you that developers rarely think to add a mode that makes puzzles, targeting, or whatever a little less colour reliant? Any game ever blown you away with it's inclusiveness in this respect?

A developer that does seem commendably aware of colour blindness is Valve. The colour blind mode in Left 4 Dead is brilliant, red versus blue is the next best thing to black versus white, and I'm not sure what colour the portals are in Portal, but they're really easy to distinguish. Hat's off, Valve.

no offence, but how can you tell what colour you're not seeing if you've never seen it? i probably sound like an ignorant git, but i know nothing about colour blindness to be honest :x

Maybe someone could have just told him that it was that colour?

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I'm not a but a friend is.
He can't see Red, Green, Brown (and purple I think).

He does ok on games saying he "aims for the fuzzy stuff".

I will still never know how he managed WoW.

 

[NeedAUserName]

no offence, but how can you tell what colour you're not seeing if you've never seen it? i probably sound like an ignorant git, but i know nothing about colour blindness to be honest :x

Maybe someone could have just told him that it was that colour?

Yeah but to him, it would be the same color he has been used to seeing...

 

[bmf185]

I learned all about red-green colorblindness in Genetics last semester...

It is most commonly inherited on the X chromosome, but there are other causes. Females have 2 X chromosomes; males only have one. It is a recessive disorder, meaning if a female has one copy of the colorblindness gene and one normal copy, she will be a carrier but not show the disorder (but her sons may get the faulty X). However, since males only have the one X, if they get the faulty copy--the disorder shows. SO, if your mom is red-green colorblind (meaning she has two copies of the defective gene and can only contribute that to you) and you aren't...She probably isn't your real mom.

Sorry if I just told some people that they were most likely adopted.

 

[joystickjunki3]

Yeah a little...

Most modern games just look grey and brown to me...

... oh wait...

Haha. What about Sonic Unleashed, though? Or Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts? Viva Pinata?

 

[Davey Woo]

No I'm not colourblind, and I don't fully understand what it does so if someone could explain that'd be nice.

 

[PuckFuppet]

Basically it means you can't clearly see a particular spectrum of light, red/blue or yellow/blue.

Now this doesn't mean that the colours in question end up looking blank to you, they'll just be dulled or perhaps even fully grey depending on severity.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

I'm sure you can find an explanation on what it is here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness].

Anyway, I'm not colour blind but my dad is. I do think it's great that Valve tries to accommodate for it.

 

[Zac_Dai]

Yeh I'm colour deficient in Red/Green.

I've never really had a problem with it games wise, the problems crop up more in RL.

 

[Scary_Bob]

no offence, but how can you tell what colour you're not seeing if you've never seen it? i probably sound like an ignorant git, but i know nothing about colour blindness to be honest :x

Maybe someone could have just told him that it was that colour?

Yeah but to him, it would be the same color he has been used to seeing...

Basically it means that 2 different colours may become indistinguishable, therefore someone could tell him that there are 2 different colours whilst he is only seeing 1.

 

[Thespamanator]

I remember Star wars battlefront II had a colour-blind friendly hud... I think that's what game it was anyway...

Anyone else here colour blind? What games have you not been able to play as a result? Does it bother you that developers rarely think to add a mode that makes puzzles, targeting, or whatever a little less colour reliant? Any game ever blown you away with it's inclusiveness in this respect?

A developer that does seem commendably aware of colour blindness is Valve. The colour blind mode in Left 4 Dead is brilliant, red versus blue is the next best thing to black versus white, and I'm not sure what colour the portals are in Portal, but they're really easy to distinguish. Hat's off, Valve.

no offence, but how can you tell what colour you're not seeing if you've never seen it? i probably sound like an ignorant git, but i know nothing about colour blindness to be honest :x

Yeah to be honest I'd been thinking this, and how do any of us know were all not seeing different colours, the way you see blue might be how I see red etc, but to me and you it seems fine since we will never(I doubt) see the world through each others eyes.

 

[JaguarWong]

Yeah a little...

Most modern games just look grey and brown to me...

... oh wait...

Haha. What about Sonic Unleashed, though? Or Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts? Viva Pinata?

Or Mirror's Edge or De Blob or SMG or Tomb Raider UW or SFIV or...

You get the picture - lot's of good games with lots of colour are not mutually exclusive of lots of good games that would have been better with lots more colour!

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

I can only see basics, no blends like purple.