Re: [Audyssey] ship colors - Re: aliens in the outback

2010-05-31 Thread dark
I actually think i was lucky in terms of my vision and games. Today, stuff tends to be far too graphically or spacially complex, --- accept the odd beat em up, while any earlier and the lack of colours in games would've been a big problem for me sinse I have trouble distincguishing in game ob

Re: [Audyssey] ship colors - Re: aliens in the outback

2010-05-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yeah, that's exactly the type of thing I was talking about. Of course, there was no need for Megaman to change color when he used a boss weapon, but back then I just thought it was cool. However, it was that sort of showing off and rapidly changing colors that impressed the heck out of th

Re: [Audyssey] ship colors - Re: aliens in the outback

2010-05-31 Thread dark
eware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] ship colors - Re: aliens in the outback Hi Charles, That's interesting. Since I had sight for several ye

Re: [Audyssey] ship colors - Re: aliens in the outback

2010-05-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, That's interesting. Since I had sight for several years I enjoy the description of identifying ship by color as that is more like the classic Atari games I use to play. I imagine since James North was sighted himself when he wrote the game he found it easier to associate ships by color

Re: [Audyssey] ship colors - Re: aliens in the outback

2010-05-31 Thread Charles Rivard
Cool fact. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "dark" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] ship colors - Re: aliens in the outback That does make sense Charlese, but remember that Synaesthesia is a nerolo

Re: [Audyssey] ship colors - Re: aliens in the outback

2010-05-31 Thread dark
Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Charles Rivard" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 5:50 PM Subject: [Audyssey] ship colors - Re: aliens in the outback To me, a color is merely a nondescriptive name. I was born blind. In A

[Audyssey] ship colors - Re: aliens in the outback

2010-05-31 Thread Charles Rivard
To me, a color is merely a nondescriptive name. I was born blind. In Aliens in the Outback, I prefer giving reference to the ship by the initial level in which is was first introduced. A red ship means nothing to me, but a level 2, 4, 1, or whatever gives it an identifyable label. The ships