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Re: Show HN: I made a daily puzzle game about mixing colors

#11

Looks good. Unfortunately my colour blindness means the first level after the tutorial was difficult for me to play. Which sucks.

Would a hover with RGB values help? It then becomes a bit of a logic game. For example you have F00 and 0F0 and you need a FF0

Re: Show HN: I made a daily puzzle game about mixing colors

#12

Looks good. Unfortunately my colour blindness means the first level after the tutorial was difficult for me to play. Which sucks.

Would a hover with RGB values help? It then becomes a bit of a logic game. For example you have F00 and 0F0 and you need a FF0

Having to hover each time is a little unwieldy. Patterns [0] could be helpful? In this instance it might be neat to have stripes in the cardinal/diagonal directions which can combine into crosshatch, though after 4 colours it would get crowded to represent.

[0] Something similar to https://images.wsj.net/im-194691 for lighter-shade-on-darker shade.

Re: Show HN: I made a daily puzzle game about mixing colors

#13

Looks good. Unfortunately my colour blindness means the first level after the tutorial was difficult for me to play. Which sucks.

I'm really sorry about the color problems, my wife also has some color issues that I was trying to work around. I think having a high contrast mode is something I can add.

Thanks for trying it out, really appreciate you letting me know.

Re: Show HN: I made a daily puzzle game about mixing colors

#14

Nicely done. I need to admit the second step in the tutorial took me a while. It's not obvious the mixing tiles accept incoming colors only at some of the sides. I.e. you need to go further with the blue and make a U turn.

I really appreciate this suggestion. I also had a friend hung up on the directional concept. I'll look to fix that with a gentler tutorial possible. Thanks for trying it out!

Re: Show HN: I made a daily puzzle game about mixing colors

#16

Looks good. Unfortunately my colour blindness means the first level after the tutorial was difficult for me to play. Which sucks.

I'm really sorry about the color problems, my wife also has some color issues that I was trying to work around. I think having a high contrast mode is something I can add. Thanks for trying it out, really appreciate you letting me know.

Thanks for your reply. I love playing these sorts of games but colours have always been an issue where colour is the primary mechanism of the game. So some games will just be out of reach and I’m ok with that. I wouldn’t want you to over complicate or ruin a nice UI to cater for my needs! Greens, browns and reds will always be an issue. Even blues and purples are hard too.

Re: Show HN: I made a daily puzzle game about mixing colors

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm really sorry about the color problems, my wife also has some color issues that I was trying to work around. I think having a high contrast mode is something I can add. Thanks for trying it out, really appreciate you letting me know.

Thanks for your reply. I love playing these sorts of games but colours have always been an issue where colour is the primary mechanism of the game. So some games will just be out of reach and I’m ok with that. I wouldn’t want you to over complicate or ruin a nice UI to cater for my needs! Greens, browns and reds will always be an issue. Even blues and purples are hard too.

At work we had a red/green system for deploys of code to production. We would use a red or green dot in a messaging system. I had to ask if we could use the words stop and go inside the circle which we did and that helped a lot of people. In my company there are a lot of Colourblind developers!

Re: Show HN: I made a daily puzzle game about mixing colors

#19

1. The restart button doesn't seem to work half the time 2. As a techie who thinks of color in RGB, it took me a very long time to understand how to make green from yellow.

Well in elementary school they'll be teaching my daughter that blue and yellow make green and red and blue make purple. Not sure how I could help the techies here :)

Re: Show HN: I made a daily puzzle game about mixing colors

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm really sorry about the color problems, my wife also has some color issues that I was trying to work around. I think having a high contrast mode is something I can add. Thanks for trying it out, really appreciate you letting me know.

Thanks for your reply. I love playing these sorts of games but colours have always been an issue where colour is the primary mechanism of the game. So some games will just be out of reach and I’m ok with that. I wouldn’t want you to over complicate or ruin a nice UI to cater for my needs! Greens, browns and reds will always be an issue. Even blues and purples are hard too.

Hey, I'm not sure you'll see this but I wanted to let you know that I added a color blind assist mode based on another comment's suggestion of adding patterns/textures to the tiles. In the top-right corner is a hamburger menu where the mode can be enabled.

I'm not 100% if this is the right solution for your needs but I'd be interested in hearing if the update helps at all.

Thanks again for the feedback!

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