We've had discussions before on GameBoomers about the issue of colorblindness and the difficulty it causes for those attempting to solve puzzles based on differentiating colors. According to
Wikipedia:"...in the United States, about 7 percent of the male population – or about 10.5 million men – and 0.4 percent of the female population either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently."
We recently heard from Jay Holloway, who has been trying to get developers to come up with a colorblind interface that identifies colors for those who don't see them the same way as the majority of other gamers. The first use of this interface turns out to be in
RHEM 4, with Jay working together with developer Knut Müller to create the feature.
"Knut put together a trial version of the Colourblind Interface and emailed it to me last year & I ran some tests and made suggestions, and it finally made it into the game this year, and it's absolutely brilliant. I now know what the colours are by checking the read-out, and, while I'm playing the game at least, I have normal colour vision! As far as I know this is the only game on the market that has this unique feature..."
So if you're playing
RHEM 4 and want to check out this feature, press the 'c' key on your keyboard and place the cursor over any object, and at the top of the screen you'll see text identifying that object's color, hex number (has to do with math, not witchcraft)
and RGB (red green blue) value.
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