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Color Blind by Alec Von Arx

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made by Alec Von Arx for LD26 (COMPO)
A simple game where you must identify the color of the square in the middle of the screen. The square will shrink for every correct guess. How sharp are your eyes? Can you find the Potato???



My first LD, pretty happy with it :) Although I didn't get to adding sound to it... Made using javascript and the canvas to draw.

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// This game would not have been possible without the //
// University of Minnesota's Video Game Development Club //
// and their "common" library. Thanks to you guys and to //
// Buyu for hosting my game! <3 //
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Web http://buyuchen.com/AlecVonArx/ColorBlind/index.html
Source Code http://buyuchen.com/AlecVonArx/ColorBlind/source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=22831

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1364
Overall 2.83 914
Fun 2.64 874
Graphics 2.21 1150
Humor 1.90 802
Innovation 3.30 411
Mood 2.25 1103
Theme 4.00 153

Feedback

DaveDobson
29. Apr 2013 · 04:09 UTC
I could not find the potato. I did get bonus mode, though. I couldn't figure out what it did - I won again after winning the first time and it didn't seem any different. Fun idea, good execution, not much game (but I guess that's the minimalism). Surprisingly fun.
daniel
29. Apr 2013 · 04:40 UTC
Interesting concept, pretty fun for a while.. Also my eyes hurt now, thanks :P
sparkleswirl
29. Apr 2013 · 04:40 UTC
No potato for me. It's a cute little game though!
fueelin
29. Apr 2013 · 04:46 UTC
Neat game, though it feels kind of like a guessing game at 16... I liked it.
saampahlavan
29. Apr 2013 · 04:59 UTC
A nice little game. Some nice beeps and boops would be good
🎤 Alec Von Arx
29. Apr 2013 · 05:38 UTC
Thanks for the feedback everyone!

@DaveDobson: I made it so once you unlock bonus mode it will automatically select it for you (I think this is what you were confused about).

@daniel: I was thinking about putting a screamer after you get 16 haha be glad i didn't have enough time!
sol_hsa
29. Apr 2013 · 07:11 UTC
Deceitfully simple, after 10 points it was hard to even notice there's a block there at all =)
meszka
29. Apr 2013 · 23:17 UTC
Neat idea. Could be nicer with some sort of time limit, and with not-so-impossible sizes at the end ;) If the player was forced to be quick, I think even relatively large squares could be mixed up in a panic.
LizEngland
30. Apr 2013 · 04:21 UTC
Did not win but... I would totally play the hell out of a fully featured version of this game, if just to prove my superior sense of color matching. Really good for your first LD.
matthias_zarzecki
30. Apr 2013 · 08:21 UTC
Fun idea! The period where you see it going to the wrong color and want to switch is agonizing :P
GreenPixelDev
01. May 2013 · 05:05 UTC
Nice and minimal! Good to know I'm not colourblind :D Great job sticking with the theme!
Super Hamster
01. May 2013 · 05:06 UTC
The only challenge about it was that the things got so tiny I couldn't even see them but it has potential. (By the way, I am actually colorblind slightly :D)
messiano
01. May 2013 · 05:10 UTC
At first I thought: what a terrible idea! But somehow it worked and I played 5 times until I almost scored 16. Kudos on being original and very minimal!
cahman
01. May 2013 · 10:42 UTC
A very fun little game and a good take on minimalism! I tried cheating by cranking my resolution way down and using the windows magnifier. Didn't help, I still couldn't get past 12. It's probably my monitor ;)
JoeDev_net
01. May 2013 · 16:14 UTC
Very clever game and fits the theme perfectly. Great job! I got to 14 several times, but after that it was really just a guess for me.

Also, you commented on my game that you couldn't play because you have a Mac, well there is now a Web build, so hopefully you will be able to play it.
nintendoeats
03. May 2013 · 03:25 UTC
I'm actually red/green colourblind and I easily got to 12, which as far as I can tell is the most that anybody could do at the game's current resolution. So I don't know how well this game works.
mramaizng
03. May 2013 · 04:51 UTC
i enjoyed this. very simple idea and kept my attention till i beat it. nice job!
Spiridios
03. May 2013 · 05:22 UTC
#15, on my monitor, the color that came up might as well have been white. I inspected the pixel's color. It was fffffb.
GeorgeBroussard
03. May 2013 · 05:52 UTC
Interesting. I won after 3-4 tries. The last 2-3 were more luck than anything. It was either semi invisible (yellow) or obviously the dark red. Very interesting visualization.
sittaman
03. May 2013 · 11:01 UTC
As a colorblind I have to say, your game is amazing !!!
bobo72a
03. May 2013 · 14:24 UTC
VGDC 4 lyfe
niun
03. May 2013 · 14:45 UTC
huh, really enjoyed this. Simple but lots of fun. For some reason - hangover and twitchy fingers I guess - I'm really, really bad at it. :/
mrexcessive
03. May 2013 · 15:15 UTC
My eyesight not good enough for the later levels... What a strange game!
visibleatom
03. May 2013 · 16:21 UTC
It does get frustrating trying to judge the color value of one pixel, but it's a good game. Is it actually possible for colorblind people to play this?
docix
03. May 2013 · 20:44 UTC
So good and so simple!
Sylvain.p
03. May 2013 · 23:09 UTC
Not much game, but interesting idea, in accordance with the theme. My best score was 14 :)
tsb
05. May 2013 · 06:34 UTC
Funny, I zoomed in the screen is that cheationg :3
🎤 Alec Von Arx
05. May 2013 · 06:56 UTC
@Spiridios The smallest size that the colored square gets is actually 0.1 pixels (you can check the source, line 38ish in "mainGame.js"), and it is not a dom element, so yeah the pixel value should be close to all white. It's pretty tough to tell once it gets down there, but it is definitely possible! haha
🎤 Alec Von Arx
05. May 2013 · 07:01 UTC
@sittaman thanks so much dude! You are awesome!
@visibleatom Not too sure... I feel like it would depend on the type of colorblind-ness... One of my friends who play tested the game had real troubles with the red/yellow level but had a much easier time with purple/blue level while another friend had the opposite experience.
@tsb all fair in my book haha although you can get the information much easier from the console/debugger
pikmin4000
05. May 2013 · 16:28 UTC
Simple sweet game. After ten, though I had to zoom in the game (sorry for cheating!) anyways, I had a highscore of like 12. I'm not sure how it could get any smaller- perhaps some sound effects would be an improvement
infernet89
05. May 2013 · 16:56 UTC
Very interesting idea, but becomes impossible after not too much, with a low resolution monitor.
euwaku
06. May 2013 · 05:24 UTC
A new reference game for designers? :D
JonRB
20. May 2013 · 09:12 UTC
I'm unfortunately afflicted with a line of red and yellow dead pixels down the middle of this screen, so the game became quite difficult at about 12. Frustratingly made it to 15 a number of times. Occasionally fucked up and pressed the wrong button and given the movement time it would be nice if it let you change during the glide.
Pinkerator
20. May 2013 · 09:17 UTC
Original idea :) Nice first game on LD!
It's really hard to match color after "11"
geepit
20. May 2013 · 11:36 UTC
Nice concept, fun game