Color Blindness

Links

• Solving an Invisible Problem: Designing for Color-Blindness in Games By Douglas Pennant

Ways to Support Color Blindness

• Don’t just communicate with color

  • Provide symbols / textures on top of color information.

  • Customize characters. Give them specific features like costumes or items to help tell them apart.

  

• Provide color selection controls

  • Have a color preset system: developers tag a game object as an enemy and there is a preset color for enemies

  • Give the player a color picker that allows them to assign colors to important game elements

  

• Use Color Blindness simulator tools while you develop your game

  • Simulating Color Blindness In Unity (URP)

  • https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/

  • https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/fullscreen-camera-effects/colorblind-effect-76360#description

• Make sure your accessibility options are accessible (players know they exist)

• Test your game with color blind players and ask for community feedback.