Alternative games for colorblind people.
Dan Rivera
United States
Fountain
Colorado
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So I'm Red/Green color blind and there are games that I just cant play. There color dependent and use colors that look exactly the same. So I know there are other geeklists that show what game dont play well for color blind people. But i havent seen one for alternative to that game that have the same feel. So here is an attempt at that.
Please add to this list. I love playing games and the more i can play the better. 
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The game that inspired the list. I cant play it. Period. And it looked like alot of fun. So I was sort disapointed.
Posted Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:36 am
This is factory fun in space, if your color blind and cant play FF, this will hit the same spot quite nicely.
Santiago
Edit: typo.
Red
Green
Silver
Yellow
Brown
Purple
My gut tells me that this game would be unplayable as is for a CB person, and that I should toss the red and green commodity colors and use black and white instead.
I'm still in the design stage, so changing colors is only a minor inconvenience.
My ultimate goal would be that a color blind person could play this game without hesitation due to color choice issues on my part.
Respectfully.
Falloutfan
Fountain
Colorado
Red
Green
Silver
Yellow
Brown
Purple
My gut tells me that this game would be unplayable as is for a CB person, and that I should toss the red and green commodity colors and use black and white instead.
I'm still in the design stage, so changing colors is only a minor inconvenience.
My ultimate goal would be that a color blind person could play this game without hesitation due to color choice issues on my part.
Respectfully.
Falloutfan
try this website it will take an uploaded picture of your components and show you how a colorblind person sees them. http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckImage.php
Canyon Country
California
one of my first rules of purchase. if i can't see the game pieces.....i don't care how good the game is, it does not get bought.
if they don't want to take the time to pick colors so i can play, then i don't need to spend my money on their game.
stay well,
jj
Just tried the site. Wow - I've got a lot of work to do. Thanks for link.
Respectfully
Falloutfan.
California
Red
Green
Silver
Yellow
Brown
Purple
My gut tells me...use black and white instead.
Thank you for thinking through the accessibility of your design for those with color vision deficiency. I have several posts on accessible design pointers when considering users who are colorblind. Just go http://colorvision.typepad.com and click on the category cloud tag for "accessibility."
VisiCheck is a good tool. I list several others among the posts in the blog.
Your color choices so far for the cubes are good. I recommend you make the brown, green and red as distinct from each other as possible. One in twelve of your male users will have a hard time distinguishing them. Black and white as choices would be a really good design move.