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Re: Game about squares

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Post by gabriel34 »

pdpi wrote: post #153
MattHeard wrote: post #112

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While software should be designed with accessibility in mind, ideally this could be managed by the display, allowing applications to be agnostic to the needs of colour blind users. Would it be possible for displays to insert a colour-transformation layer to shift all colours to different palettes which are more distinct for each type of colour blindness? This might only work for partial colour blindness, but does any…

AFAIK, colour blindness ranges from barely an issue to an almost complete "grey-scale" style of insensitivity to colour. In general, the only safe design choice is ensuring that no decision-critical information is conveyed through colour alone.

Only if you want to catch 100% of the problems I'm slightly colorblind and have had a hard time on the same level as the parent poster. Greyscale colorblindness (i.e. absence of color receptors) is extremely rare. PopCap does a colorblind safe mode (for zuma, peggle, etc), so did EA for Battlefield 3. It might not be the best solution, but it's good enough for 80% of the colorblind. There is a downside, a midway solution, although more realistic, reduces attention on the bigger problem, the rest of the colorblind population would be less catered to, but imho that already is the status quo and will be for the foreseeable future

Re: Game about squares

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Post by gabriel34 »

rplnt wrote: post #159
pdpi wrote: post #153

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AFAIK, colour blindness ranges from barely an issue to an almost complete "grey-scale" style of insensitivity to colour. In general, the only safe design choice is ensuring that no decision-critical information is conveyed through colour alone.

So, service idea: pass a complex color-blindness test (on your setup) and it will generate a color profile suited for you (and your setup). I wonder if it is possible without ruining the appearance of everything else (never really looked into how color profiles work).

The bad thing about this idea is that it wouldn't be reliable for the user's eye because of the variation of color representation across screens.

The good side is that it would be a correct representation of the accuracy of color recognition of the system screen-eye, which is much more relevant from a design perspective.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by myfonj »

ardemue wrote: post #108

Really liked the game, but I'm colorblind and it blocked me on level 20: I can't tell which square should go on which circle ( http://imgur.com/CX7XWJ4 ). I genuinely played that level as if the two bottom squares were the same. Maybe you could add another differentiator, like a different shape.

I've hacked quick userstyle [1] that adds text labels into blocks, it seems like [2] then. [1] https://userstyles.org/styles/103877/game-about-squares-colo... [2] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1571982/shots/game-about...

Re: Game about squares

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Post by Monkeyget »

CyberShadow wrote: post #148

Solver and solutions: https://gist.github.com/CyberShadow/39f43cf25dac0534f8a9 The solver uses BFS with delayed duplicate detection for pruning visited states (instead of, say, hash tables). The DDD part can be summed up in two lines of code: prevStates = (prevStates ~ states).sort.uniq.array(); states = nextStates.sort.uniq.setDifference(prevStates).array(); // ... expand states into nextStates ... These were part o…

I wrote a solver as a chrome extension : https://github.com/tburette/gameaboutsquaressolver

Javascript is not the best language to write AI.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by frogpelt »

prawn wrote: post #127
gridspy wrote: post #106

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Squares can push other squares sideways.

I think there are those people who persist and work it out, those who politely ask for help (OP) and those who say "Impossible. Game is broken!" and leave you a 1* review on the App Store. We just released our first iOS game and sadly that latter group can be enough to hurt your ratings!

Do you ever get constructive feedback from 1* ratings?

I've left 1* ratings for games I play all the time because I absolutely hated the in-app purchase intrusiveness.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by VBprogrammer »

ardemue wrote: post #108

Really liked the game, but I'm colorblind and it blocked me on level 20: I can't tell which square should go on which circle ( http://imgur.com/CX7XWJ4 ). I genuinely played that level as if the two bottom squares were the same. Maybe you could add another differentiator, like a different shape.

I think the most annoying thing about this is that there are still 4 blocks, so why after 20 fun filled levels am I not able to differentiate the colours? I was able to, with some more care, figure out level 20 but level 21 I didn't even move a block before I knew it wasn't going to work.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by psawaya »

abecedarius wrote: post #145
psawaya wrote: post #31

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I made a web based one a few years ago which I'll take the opportunity to shamelessly plug: http://sokobanjs.com

And here's a text-terminal version in a couple pages of Python: https://github.com/darius/sturm/blob/master/sokoban.py -- I'd like to see more small, readable game implementations to learn from.

Great work!

Re: Game about squares

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Post by prawn »

frogpelt wrote: post #195
prawn wrote: post #127

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I think there are those people who persist and work it out, those who politely ask for help (OP) and those who say "Impossible. Game is broken!" and leave you a 1* review on the App Store. We just released our first iOS game and sadly that latter group can be enough to hurt your ratings!

Do you ever get constructive feedback from 1* ratings? I've left 1* ratings for games I play all the time because I absolutely hated the in-app purchase intrusiveness.

I think you can learn something from all feedback, even if it's unfair and might've been better off sent through a support/feedback form.

I think a 1* rating for a free game relying on ads or IAP is a bit rough unless the requests are brutally intrusive. In the case of our game, we show an ad between each game that is instantly dismissible. 10-20% of the time we show an upgrade modal in case people want to ditch the ads and get extra features.

One of the ad networks we beta tested had unskippable, 30 second video ads with sound!

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