#but damn. @colourblind people u are really fighting in the trenches with so many games | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bmpmp3 · 7 days ago

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im not colourblind so i could be off base but sometimes i see colourblind options in video games just be like, a filter to simulate colourblindness to the non-colourblind?? and im like. that cant be helpful right? like half the time its gotta make it even harder to distinguish the colours for the colourblind gamer right? no one suffers more on this earth than the colourblind gamer...... o7

#i end up using colourblind accessibility options a lot despite not being colourblind #because 1) different screens have different colour accuracy and sometimes u need extra distinguishing #i play games on 15 year old thinkpads with 30% colour accuracy sometimes!!!!!!!!!!!#and 2) often colour information blurs together in my head as background noise. idk why #so if i have an option to turn on like idk symbols or patterns or other ui changes that were originally just colours i will #but damn. @colourblind people u are really fighting in the trenches with so many games #i was trying out rift of the necrodancers demo and hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm #i'll try it out some more. but some of these ui things have me like hmmmmmmmmmmmmm #at one point i was like god damn let me check out these accessibility options im dying here. specifically i was like #really constantly forgetting which colour monster was which. and i was HOPING. hoping there would be an option to like #idk just slap a number on those bad boys or something. a symbol? some patterns? something to make them more differentiated #but it was just a couple colour change filters 😔 alas #animations are cute tho! i turned off the monster animations but the side animations were fine so i kept em

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