[games_access] games_access Digest, Vol 57, Issue 4

[Reid Kimball]

It might work in games, but I'm afraid it would end up looking like a
webpage from the early 1990's. Every other word having some type of
effect applied to it. Many hard of hearing or deaf people also have
vision difficulties, italics mixed with underlines, etc will be hard
to read. But if someone wants to prove this out, please do.

-Reid

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Matthias Troup
<foreversublime at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I found Thomas' suggestion interesting for a few reasons...  but I'll cut to
> the chase... I forwarded Thomas' email to a friend that replied in part:
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> "Wow, very cool.  But you have to remember that that's something of a
> practice already done in comic books for decades :)"
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> Question:  Is anyone here a comic book guru?  My friend may have just been
> cheeky.  I know some professional comic writers and could ask if they have
> further guidance on the subject of typography... but if those bases are
> covered here already feel free to add your input as to how games are NOT
> like comic books.  *wink.
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> From: thomas at pininteractive.com
> To: games_access at igda.org
> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:20:26 +0100
> Subject: Re: [games_access] games_access Digest, Vol 57, Issue 4
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> and also color coding is a problem for those who are deaf + color blind
>
> perhaps using bold for male, normal for female or some non-color indication
> (in addition to color coding)
> + similar for types, e.g
> italic for hazard, normal for friendly
> underscore for information
> /Thomas
> On 6 jan 2009, at 05.55, Reid Kimball wrote:
>
> I think they are very important because deaf players can't hear that
> one voice sounds female and another sound male for example. You could
> color code, but must be consistent so that players learn that green is
> always for one character and no other. But then you lose the ability
> to color code sounds by type, (hazard, friendly, information) like I
> did in Doom3[CC].
>
> Based on color theory some colors do not mix well, so yes, black
> background can pose problems for text in certain colors. Forgive me
> for not making a comprehensive list now. If someone who knows color
> theory can let us know which colors shouldn't be used for text on a
> black background please share.
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