50 Shades of Gaming: Playing with Colour Blindness

I started bringing home landscape drawings from primary school, complete with purple skies. It wasn’t long before I was diagnosed with red and green colour blindness.

At 16, I toyed with joining the army. I was worried the condition would affect my options, and recall the careers officer making a quip about not going into bomb disposal... cut the green wire, indeed.

Red and green colour blindness isn’t exclusive to those primary colours, however. Purple looks blue to me, hence that sky – I can’t see purple’s red tones. I perceive the world differently – unless you’re one of the 250,000,000 people also affected.

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