GDC19 Flash Forward: Solving an Invisible Problem: Designing for Color-Blindness in Games

hi my name is Douglas pennant and I'm a developer and player of games I'm also colorblind which can make some games difficult or impossible to play all games are unique and use color in slightly different ways so each game will need an individual personalized solution to make the game accessible to colorblind players recently more and more developers have been striving to support color blindness in their games but it can be very hard to solve a problem you cannot actually see and to make things worse the feature itself may be completely invisible to your color blind colleagues and players making this invisible problem even harder to solve at GDC this year my aim is that educate as many developers as possible about the disability going in to the science behind the condition looking into how it affects the different games and how it

affects the playing experience and also covering some methods you can use to predict some of the problems and make your games a lot more colorblind friendly and yes I will have lots and lots of pictures to help illustrate all of this if you would like to understand better how to make your games colorblind accessible please come and see my GDC talk solving an invisible problem designing for colorblindness in games thank you very much and I'll see you in San Francisco you