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Anon wants to stop the mad painter (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago (12 children)

O.P.T.I.O.N.A.L.

I genuinely don't know why this is a debate. There are intentionally difficult games that have accessibility features. There are games that don't cater to everyone out of the box, but a simple toggle on the pause screen enables colorblind mode, etc.

If they're already putting yellow paint in a game or considering it, just spend an hour of development time giving players the choice to disable it and literally everyone wins!

[–] Randomguy@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Not really. Yellow paint isn't a thing for shits and giggles, it's there to make the game readable.

Before yellow paint, games needed to have good art direction (instead of "realism") or good environment design to either make it clear something is meant to be interacted with or to point the player in the right direction.

Simply removing yellow paint doesn't suddenly improve art direction or environment design, it just makes the game needlessly hard to read.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Who... are you arguing with? Did you read any of my comment at all? The yellow paint is already here to stay! I'm saying give the players the choice to enable it or not. That's all! They're putting it in the game anyway...

[–] Randomguy@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who... are you arguing with?

You?

Did you read any of my comment at all?

Yeah?

I'm saying give the players the choice to enable it or not.

And I'm saying that by giving a choice at all, you're already failing the players that don't want it. Aka, not a "everyone wins".

My point is that yellow paint isn't bad because it's ugly or breaks immersion, it is bad because there can be good design that communicates the same thing without being ugly and immersion breaking.