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Color Customization

By Kyzrati | Published: January 10, 2018

I’ve always enjoyed adding accessibility features, hence Cogmind’s sizeable options menu and even more extensive config files. Not everyone will have the same habits or abilities, or play a game in the same way, so where possible it’s nice to be able to accommodate different needs. Although I’ve talked a fair bit about fonts before […]

Posted in Design | Also tagged Accessibility, Cogmind, Gamedev, Options, UI | 2 Responses

Accommodating Color Blindness

By Kyzrati | Published: April 20, 2014

Traditional roguelikes are both at an advantage and disadvantage when it comes to accommodating color blind players. On the one hand recoloring monochrome glyphs is a fairly straightforward process; on the other a game lacking any method of adjusting colors can be difficult for some to play, more so than say a game with unique […]

Posted in Design | Also tagged Accessibility, Cogmind, Gamedev, Roguelikes | Leave a comment

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