Comments on: Addressing color blindness in game design

By: Jesse D

Jesse D — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 02:52:46 +0000

I was Googling what jobs would be good for me with colorblindness and came across your joshhblog. I was interested in Electrical Engineering Technology but what I’ve been reading, I would have difficulty in that career choice. I suppose I’d have difficulty in the gaming as well. For example, yes, in Bejeweled I use the shapes. One challenge in that game, the green circles look practically the same to the orange hexagon type shapes when I’m trying to do the game quickly. I’m wondering what great jobs I can do with having colorblindness. In all your research and chatting with people, any ideas of how I could use my colorblindness as an advantage in a career choice? Thanks for the great information. I can hardly wait to try out the Chroma Circuit game.

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PC Gaming Feature Wishlist | The Gamerverse — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:27:05 +0000

[…] 5% less customers? Provide options to change colors and be aware of how color affects gameplay, this guy can help you. Can't tell the difference? Game developers need to make it possible that you […]

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:39:55 +0000

matthew, I don’t think it has a setting. However, that’s not a game that I’ve played myself, so I don’t know for sure. I was merely linking to the article since it was relevant.

By: matthew

matthew — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:59:14 +0000

I sometimes play bio shock and I have trouble hacking because the green and yellow look very similar because I am colour blind red and green (colour blindness) but it affects most colours I was just wonder is there a colour blind setting for it ?

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Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:47:41 +0000

[…] Apparently 60% of gamers are male and generally 7-8% of those suffer from some form of color blindness (fortunately it’s not something I suffer from myself). Nearly 5% of all gamers have to endure this problem. Game developers stop ignoring 1 in 20 of your customers! Would you want 5% less customers? Provide options to change colors and be aware of how color affects gameplay, this guy can help you. […]

By: Bill Kozak

Bill Kozak — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:06:47 +0000

My friend is disqualified from the graphic arts industry, which did not enable him to even work on a printing press. Printers have to take a color blindness test for even an entry level job.

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:51:31 +0000

Sharon, it looks like that feature was added in CS4. I thought it had been around longer, but I guess my memory is wrong on that one.

By: Sharon J

Sharon J — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:18:27 +0000

I run photoshop CS3, and alas, I do not have the colour blindness choices in the view proof menu. What version do you use?

thanks for this, btw, it was really interesting

By: Netsy

Netsy — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:55:11 +0000

Actually, Bejeweled can still be somewhat challenging to the color deficient. The six-sided orange and eight-sided green jewels are both round enough that I have trouble distinguishing them at a quick glance. The 3D shading does not help matters.

And don’t get me started on Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook! Blitz includes important “multiplier” gems, all of which are round and are only distinguishable by a thin band of color.

By: Awoo

Awoo — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:06:12 +0000

You gave the example of how bejeweled can be played easily by the colorblind. The main symbols are not a problem, the designers thought about them, it’s the multipliers in bejeweled which are only identifiable by color which are the problem! Seems the developers didn’t think it through beyond the main shapes!