How Color Blind People See Games

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In this fourth installment of the post processing series we learn how to simulate color blindness for usability design. If someone with color blindness can't play your game, that's a huge problem!
Topics covered include: How we see color and how color blindness works.
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  • @SunroseStudios
    @SunroseStudios Жыл бұрын

    "let's say, hypothetically, you had eyeballs" wow what a concept

  • @MelodyGardenia

    @MelodyGardenia

    Жыл бұрын

    Men with eyes ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @Olivejohn147

    @Olivejohn147

    Жыл бұрын

    "Let's say, hypothetically, you HAD eyeballs." Of course you don't have them anymore though...

  • @absolutehuman951

    @absolutehuman951

    7 ай бұрын

    MetaWare High School be like:

  • @DialecticRed
    @DialecticRed Жыл бұрын

    4:46 I have deutaneropia and the two sides of that image look the exact same to me, except the stars on the left just seem very slightly brighter... but the colors look the same . . . this is the only image I've seen that's managed to achieve that, I've looked up other comparisons online and I can always tell the difference, but not with this.

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    Жыл бұрын

    That's sweet! The paper I talked about is the only resource I've found that produces those kinds of results

  • @MommysGoodPuppy

    @MommysGoodPuppy

    Жыл бұрын

    if youre curious to a non colorblind person the grass and stars look like completely seperate colors on left red stars and green grass while on right theyre the same color which is a mix of yellow/green

  • @DialecticRed

    @DialecticRed

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MommysGoodPuppy It kinda makes me a little sad that I can't see the difference. I actually forget that I'm colorblind a lot of the time because I can see most colors, and in my day to day life I don't struggle with it too often... except for when I'm shopping with people and I'll pick out something I think is a cute brown and then get hit with "wtf that's army green what are you going on about" lmao But yeah, I mean the world looks very colorful and vibrant from my perspective, so it's really hard for me to imagine how it is for everyone else lol

  • @MommysGoodPuppy

    @MommysGoodPuppy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DialecticRed i think there exsists glasses that partially fix color blindness

  • @DialecticRed

    @DialecticRed

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MommysGoodPuppyI know what your talking about. They were very expensive, but I bought them anyways. When I tried them, they did absolutely nothing (just tinted my vision, didn't help my color perception at all). I then had 3 of my colorblind friends try them, and it didn't work for any of them. I also had 2 colorblind teachers, but it didn't work for them either. The glasses were specifically for deutaneropia, and that was the form of color blindness of everyone who tried it (except one friend who has tritanopia - I feel bad for her). Nonetheless, they were absolutely a complete scam and waste of money. If anyone you know is considering buying those glasses, I would suggest advising them against it.

  • @kaasronald3623
    @kaasronald36232 жыл бұрын

    you have a really cool style. i like your attitude & sense of irony. all your jokes are funny. i like the music you pick. the content is intelligent. editing is great. idk if this is your goal but i can easily see you entertain 1M+ subs one day if you can keep up the work ethic and manage to get a number of viral videos.

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot! It is my goal to hopefully someday do this full time to support my incredibly degenerate sleeping habits and creative endeavors

  • @NatanArgente

    @NatanArgente

    Жыл бұрын

    I absolutely agree with you.

  • @a_d_z_y__

    @a_d_z_y__

    Жыл бұрын

    That is all that came to my mind when I stumbled upon this channel

  • @questionmarkquestionmarkques

    @questionmarkquestionmarkques

    Жыл бұрын

    also he leaves the music in the description which is based af. i cant tell how many times ive heard a banger in a video and never been able to listen to it outside of that

  • @Stowy

    @Stowy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@a_d_z_y__ salut adzy

  • @MommysGoodPuppy
    @MommysGoodPuppy Жыл бұрын

    really nice to see a youtuber who looks into the actual research

  • @anthonysilveira6181
    @anthonysilveira61812 жыл бұрын

    I asked this in a subreddit and got downvoted/ didn’t get a straight answer: Why do games/ apps need to implement color blind modes individually; is there not a way for the OS or monitor to apply it’s own filter to the final image? Your videos are awesome btw 👍

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    2 жыл бұрын

    Generally it's best to selectively change UI elements for usability, like League does. One option for sure is just hue shifting the entire render into a range that could be seen by color blind people, which is certainly possible to do for games that don't have color blindness options with something like ReShade (uh oh spoiler for next video).

  • @anthonysilveira6181

    @anthonysilveira6181

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Acerola_t I'm curious as to the reason why selectively changing elements is preferable? Is it just easier, better, or are there tech limitation?

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@anthonysilveira6181 I read somewhere that they did a survey of color blind people and they preferred the selective UI changes, but I don't know where I read that lol

  • @inv41id

    @inv41id

    Жыл бұрын

    @@anthonysilveira6181 If you change the entire image then it'll just plain look weird. Blue grass and red skies would look totally unnatural even to a colour blind person. To them it'd just look weird in a different way.

  • @Erkle64

    @Erkle64

    Жыл бұрын

    AMD video cards, at least my one, have a "Color Deficiency Correction" option that can be applied per monitor. It gives you three sliders labeled Protanopia, Deuteranopia and Tritanopia that you can just experiment with. Of course it's not as good as changing game art but it sure helps for me. imo the best option is things like when Among Us added shapes to the wire task.

  • @jbird4478
    @jbird4478 Жыл бұрын

    There are lots of color schemes available for colorblind people. Most of these are made for websites and regular user interface components, but I'm sure you can adept them to games as well. That way you can make it not only practical but also balanced and good looking for colorblind people. If you have a complex UI in your game, I would definitely look into that.

  • @Nejvyn
    @Nejvyn Жыл бұрын

    Talking about examples, I have a bad one: Final Fantasy XIV. Some colors, like the ones used to mark quest areas on the map, are super hard for me to see. They have different color-blind modes tho, and they all _just slap a filter on the whole screen._ Please, don't do this. If sth looks like a green tree to you, it'll look like a green tree to me, even when the color I see is different from your green. It's still the color of the trees outside. What I need is the UI colors to change.

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    Жыл бұрын

    I might be able to write a shader that does exactly that for you! My next video is about fixing ff14's graphics and I can see about making a shader that only hue shifts the UI.

  • @salvadorsanchez5057

    @salvadorsanchez5057

    Жыл бұрын

    rather than hue shifting everything, would something akin to what adobe lightroom does be better? it basically lets you change the hue/sat/value of an entire image but only for certain colors.

  • @clownhunter
    @clownhunter Жыл бұрын

    Great video! Fun fact, the amount of men that are colorblind is significantly higher than the amount of women (1 in 12 men vs 1 in 200 women). I released a puzzle game on Xbox a couple years ago and it never occurred to me to add a colorblind mode until the reviews started coming in. Shifting colors isn't the only approach to fixing the issue. I went with adding glyphs and icons to the various sprites to differentiate them.

  • @GrievelornTCG
    @GrievelornTCG2 жыл бұрын

    That slick shade at nintendo

  • @cmyk8964
    @cmyk8964 Жыл бұрын

    On a serious note, I conceptualize colorblind vision as squashing the 3D color space into a 2D plane in a specific way.

  • @VladimirDev
    @VladimirDev Жыл бұрын

    My dad is colobrind, so much so that reds and greens look identical to him. And he's in the printing business which is a big disadvantage apparently, but my mom acts a correction factor as she double checks all the colors before printing anything. Anyway, doing this check before releasing the game makes it much more playable for ~10% of your audience which is potentially a huge factor. Thanks for bringing this issue into the spotlight and providing us with a simple shader to check whether or not our games suffer from it.

  • @eliteengineer7340
    @eliteengineer7340 Жыл бұрын

    didnt know tritanopia was so rare, a friend of mine has it, he makes maps for games ironiclly enough lol

  • @youtubehandlesux
    @youtubehandlesux Жыл бұрын

    Someone asked me to add colorblind support for my game. Without this video I would probably just mistakenly implemented a filter that simulates colorblindness instead, very pog video

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    Жыл бұрын

    I tried out other color blind filters and they all look infinitely worse lol this paper is the best one by far

  • @youtubehandlesux

    @youtubehandlesux

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Acerola_tBy the way my personal syntax highlighting theme was deliberately designed to utilize as many different hues as possible, it's literally unusable for colorblind people at least according to colorblind filters, bruh

  • @youtubehandlesux

    @youtubehandlesux

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Acerola_t Oh, also what I meant by "mistakenly implemented a filter that simulates colorblindness" is that some developers would slap a colorblind filter in their game and call it "colorblindness mode" which is very misleading, almost did the same because of how prevalent that phenomenon is

  • @Ouvii

    @Ouvii

    Жыл бұрын

    @@youtubehandlesux I believe Doom 2016 implemented just that, lol. Imagine their embarrassment.

  • @monopoly2170
    @monopoly2170 Жыл бұрын

    I turn on colorblind mode by opening my eyes

  • @RAndrewNeal
    @RAndrewNeal Жыл бұрын

    Most people: Ah, that looks awful, so sad. Unaware colorblind people: I see no difference!

  • @guilhermesales2624
    @guilhermesales2624 Жыл бұрын

    did not expect to find a paper from my school here, manuel is a great professor. Great video!

  • @jordonwaters9778
    @jordonwaters9778 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing as always. I need more videos to watch

  • @henrysteven137
    @henrysteven137 Жыл бұрын

    Acerola, your videos are so interesting and informative. I'd love to see a video created by you that explores water in video games; the rendering, physics, optimization etc. of it.

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    Жыл бұрын

    water is on my priority list lol hopefully I can make a video on it before the end of the year. The basics, at least.

  • @henrysteven137

    @henrysteven137

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Acerola_t wonderful, can' t wait

  • @marianamora4203
    @marianamora4203 Жыл бұрын

    The use of the Persona music in your videos make them feel so chill and entertaining

  • @jungervin8765
    @jungervin8765 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing channel, I learned so much

  • @Michalemonkey
    @Michalemonkey Жыл бұрын

    Just found your channel and its awesome

  • @Oktokolo
    @Oktokolo Жыл бұрын

    Another accessibility issue is lack of ability to seperate the speech from almost same-volume music and ambient - in games, but also in video with non-content-oriented sound mixing. It was hard for me to focus on your good and insightful explanations because of that.

  • @NotAFoe
    @NotAFoe Жыл бұрын

    just gone binge these, like wow. they are well made!

  • @Bluegooose62
    @Bluegooose62 Жыл бұрын

    If you watch the video at X2 it just sounds like a A list of all the terrible things that could happen whenever you take medicine you hear on commercials from news channels

  • @MaxwellDoesStuff
    @MaxwellDoesStuff Жыл бұрын

    I was playing Minecraft with my friends and he said redstone looked black. I went over an confirmed it was infact red. That was the day he found out he was colorblind

  • @ZTimeGamingYT
    @ZTimeGamingYT11 ай бұрын

    As a gamer and artist with some level of deuteranomaly, this insightful video was genuinely helpful in visualizing how the cones in my eyes fail to function properly sometimes.

  • @somniad
    @somniad8 ай бұрын

    This is such a good explanation! This is all fairly unintuitive at a glance, and easily available explanations severely lack detail, so as someone who recently ran into their first colorblindness accessibility issue at work a few weeks ago, this is a fantastic and highly-appreciated resource.

  • @MimsTwo
    @MimsTwo Жыл бұрын

    As someone with Red-Green colourblindness, I'm gonna use this shader, Idk what for, but I wanna feel included in my own games lmao.

  • @sonicwaveinfinitymiddwelle8555
    @sonicwaveinfinitymiddwelle8555 Жыл бұрын

    4:58 i can see color change in sky but grass seems really much the same

  • @absolutehuman951

    @absolutehuman951

    7 ай бұрын

    Yeah, I agree with that even tho I'm not colourblind. The test scene isn't very suitable as it has very little blue so the difference is quite small.

  • @milklover2351
    @milklover2351 Жыл бұрын

    I learned a lot! thank you! definitely learned most at around 3:02

  • @jhonjhon2
    @jhonjhon2 Жыл бұрын

    Wait, I thought I had Prota color blindness but the comparisons you showed tell me otherwise. I noticed the difference between the two sides for Prota, but for Deutera I didn't. I guess I'm part of the majority then (and that you can't trust internet tests very much lol). Great video. Oh, and also, Danganronpa 2 IS my favorite game of the DR franchise, nice choice!

  • @ClockworkBastard
    @ClockworkBastard Жыл бұрын

    I've got a single problem with color - It is quite hard to distinguish blue going to a violet. I definitely can differ one from another, but there are much more variants exists for the other persons. Looks loke I'm the one with the rarest situation on color-anomaly

  • @shrimpchris6580
    @shrimpchris6580 Жыл бұрын

    I have some kind of Deuteranomaly and when you changed League to simulate colorblindness, it actually made them just a tinier bit easier to tell apart for some reason lol

  • @dimitarnikolov3527
    @dimitarnikolov3527 Жыл бұрын

    Also, some people can only see in black and white, but it's very rare

  • @PhantomKING113
    @PhantomKING11311 ай бұрын

    Great video! However, just because you have eyeballs doesn't mean you can see colour like... at all. Fun fact, for people wondering: yes, monochromacy (also called achromatopsia) exists, where the person basically seen in grey scale.

  • @Yorgarazgreece
    @Yorgarazgreece Жыл бұрын

    i have deuteranomaly and can confirm arma 3's camo is very effective. Compared to a friend who i play together i look as if i am blind

  • @FRANKLINARROYO
    @FRANKLINARROYO Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!

  • @DrakiniteOfficial
    @DrakiniteOfficial3 ай бұрын

    Weird! I was always under the impression that M cones contributed the most to our perception of brightness, because of how camera sensors have 2x the number of green pixels and screens often have 2x the number of green pixels. Thought that the sensors and cameras were doing that to replicate our sensitivity to green. But I must have been missing or misunderstanding something.

  • @Hacker_lyx
    @Hacker_lyx9 ай бұрын

    Yay I'm 7% of the population. I have pretty severe deuteranomaly (reduced sensitivity to green.) I always describe it as my greens being shifted towards yellow and red. Or simply as "muddy yellow." So when you describe the findings of this paper as shifting the sensitivity function. It matches my personal findings, lol.

  • @cinfdef
    @cinfdef Жыл бұрын

    I have protonomaly and it’s basically just darkened red for me

  • @Rumplestiltzchen
    @Rumplestiltzchen Жыл бұрын

    A) good content, underrated B) I'm color blind thank you for this

  • @zoa011
    @zoa0112 жыл бұрын

    Cool video

  • @captain3413
    @captain341310 ай бұрын

    The funniest and saddest thing for me is that due to this stuff I didn't manage to make good 3d models consistently. The shape has always been alright but making a color scheme is a total stumbling block for me. Almost every time I made a 3d model I would show it to my pals and they would say that it is indeed cool but the color is off and strange. And, of course, asking every time whether the color is ok or not is not the best thing to do, so I completely gave up on doing this

  • @stevennelson8479
    @stevennelson8479 Жыл бұрын

    The misspelled word description

  • @blinded6502
    @blinded6502 Жыл бұрын

    Okay, but can BLIND people play your game?

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    Жыл бұрын

    okay fine I'll make a video about that too

  • @Pleeze

    @Pleeze

    Жыл бұрын

    Even I can make a blind shader to show you how your game looks to blind people

  • @null6209
    @null6209 Жыл бұрын

    If you want to be even more specific, the L cones don't allow us to see red, but rather interpret longer wavelengths as "RED", the m cones interpret medium wavelengths as "GREEN", and S Cones interpret short wavelengths as "BLUE" (or ultraviolet[Humans can naturally see "Ultraviolet" -> 300nm wavelengths but we have a lens to protect against it, but some people are born without it/get it removed because of eye surgery and never get them replaced]) Colors are a machination of the brain. (Which invokes the idea that everyone might see color, not slightly different, but WILDLY different, since color is simply a neurological interpretation of the wavelength of electromagnetic rays, we could assume that what you see as red I might see COMPLETELY different, or as another color.)

  • @absolutehuman951

    @absolutehuman951

    7 ай бұрын

    Even more wild than that, different cones have quite an overlap so the colors we call "red" or "green" we actually "see" as mixtures and just interpret them as clear colors. So if for some reason you could trigger the cones separately you would be able to see red several times "more red" and green much more green. I suppose some drugs might be able to get this effect...

  • @benha3187
    @benha31872 жыл бұрын

    Danganronpa was not a game I was expecting to hear 😂

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    2 жыл бұрын

    it's your favorite game, hypothetically

  • @StoneWall_
    @StoneWall_5 ай бұрын

    until trionopia i didnt even realize, that halve of the image was coloured different. bruh

  • @aprilruledearth

    @aprilruledearth

    2 ай бұрын

    you might be colorblind, i have deuteranopia and had the same exact experience

  • @zekinler
    @zekinler Жыл бұрын

    "Huh, that's weird? Why does the side by side look the same?"

  • @shrippie-4214
    @shrippie-4214 Жыл бұрын

    Acerola more like areola got em

  • @TavishMcEwen
    @TavishMcEwen Жыл бұрын

    I do really dislike high pitch sped up voices, i'd rather listen to it at one speed

  • @book-obsessedweirdo8677
    @book-obsessedweirdo8677 Жыл бұрын

    "Lets say, hypothetically you have eyeballs"

  • @Vorance
    @Vorance Жыл бұрын

    A...am I the only one who sees no difference with tritonopia?

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    Жыл бұрын

    I have bad news

  • @youtubehandlesux

    @youtubehandlesux

    Жыл бұрын

    F

  • @robertt1435

    @robertt1435

    7 ай бұрын

    hmmm, for me the pic on the left looks quite similar, but the colour scale on the right is significantly different

  • @dusanvuksa9567
    @dusanvuksa95674 күн бұрын

    good vid sad it only has 35 k views

  • @TheCreator1197
    @TheCreator11977 ай бұрын

    Your videos are cool and all, but ngl i'm here for the persona 3 bgm...

  • @bulbassaurbestchoice7894
    @bulbassaurbestchoice7894 Жыл бұрын

    Mom loves acerola

  • @gonderage
    @gonderage2 жыл бұрын

    Mans needs a phat nap after this video

  • @jamesheller9185
    @jamesheller9185 Жыл бұрын

    i do not understand simple math and am not colorblind but still enjoying the video

  • @RetroMMO
    @RetroMMO2 жыл бұрын

    danganronpa 2

  • @MrLordFireDragon
    @MrLordFireDragon Жыл бұрын

    Kinda sad you didn't explain what your shaders did to simulate colourblindness :(

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    Жыл бұрын

    I did, the shader takes in those matrices and does the interpolation between the 2 nearest color transformation matrices.

  • @Ash_18037
    @Ash_180377 ай бұрын

    I hate color blind modes that apply an automatic filter, they either barely work or don't help at all (deuteranomaly). Tip for developers, you can't possibly come up with filters that work for everyone. Simply allow us to change the color of important UI or game elements ourselves, it doesn't even need to be an in game option, an editable config file allowing changing of the RGB values per element is more then enough. NB: To work out if a game/UI element is 'important', make all instances of that element have the same color, if that makes the game hard/impossible, its important.

  • @Saturn2888
    @Saturn2888 Жыл бұрын

    I'd hate to be the person watching this video thinking "I don't see the difference".

  • @grochlin7106
    @grochlin71062 жыл бұрын

    Damn this vid caught my M cones lackin

  • @nelumbo-nucifera
    @nelumbo-nucifera11 ай бұрын

    watching this because how do i see games

  • @LuckyDaWolf-zj7cq
    @LuckyDaWolf-zj7cq8 ай бұрын

    Wait cuz I legit can't see color so what am I

  • @KRG30001
    @KRG30001 Жыл бұрын

    As a colorblind person I gotta say most “colorblind options” in games make things even worse

  • @cmyk8964
    @cmyk8964 Жыл бұрын

    Really? "Danganronpa 2"? Please, don't be ridiculous. It's called "Super Danganronpa 2".

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    Жыл бұрын

    my mistake

  • @nelsondrums5135
    @nelsondrums513510 ай бұрын

    I actually thought a lot of the colorblind images looked cooler haha

  • @Acerola_t

    @Acerola_t

    10 ай бұрын

    I secretly use the filters for a lot of example shots in vids to make them look nicer

  • @BriansHere
    @BriansHere Жыл бұрын

    I'm protanamaly

  • @drakefruit
    @drakefruit Жыл бұрын

    obama

  • @schizophreniagaming1187
    @schizophreniagaming1187 Жыл бұрын

    seems like a skill issue

  • @inconnn
    @inconnn Жыл бұрын

    looking thru the comments for the people that found out they have colorblindness from this LOL

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