[games_access] Fwd: Personas, etc. but what is really needed...

[AudioGames.net]

Hi,

*quote*
> Ben: color blindness, that's incredibly hard, I don't even think you
> will be able to write code for that. Checking for particular color
> schemes (lets say red on green) can be anywhere in the game e.g. on
> game objects / textures. Interaction between objects, Light effects &
> shading & blending can lead to non desirable color schemes. There's no
> way you can possibly identify that upfront. The only way I can imagine
> to deal with it would be to make artist aware to use non colourblind
> colour schemes.
*quote end*

Colorblindness is actually quite simple, in my opinion. The problem, not 
being able the see information conveyed with color *alone*, can be solved 
by:

- make artists simply not convey information with colour
- make artists simply not convey information with colour ALONE, i.o.w: 
convey the same information with more than just colour (shape, size, sound, 
etc)
- make artists use non-colourblind colourschemes (what Eelke said) > only 
problem is that there are many types of colour blindness, so there is not 
just ONE scheme, so: game should provide multiple colour schemes.

Again: problems with colour only occur in games in which information is 
conveyed by colour *alone*. Although realtime lightning and shading and 
blending and such can create a dynamic coloured environments, if a designer 
is aware of colour-blindness problems and follows the "Do not convey 
information with colour ALONE"-guideline, then I can't really think of why 
this would be difficult?

Greets,

Richard