Color in games

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More By This Developer. Bubble Shooter Blast! You Might Also Like. Connect - Puzzle Game. Colorme: Coloring Book for Adults. Coloring Draft. Something to keep in mind is that these are just generalities and that some of the most interesting color palettes come from breaking these conventions.

When choosing your color palette, consider what purpose you want the colors to fulfill. All of this is part of the decision-making process. The most common use of color in video games is for wayfinding. Using colors with a high amount of visual contrast draws attention to certain directions or items.

However, you can always take it further. You could take your cue from Super Hot! Or you could use the dramatic lighting cues of a noir aesthetic such as in BioShock to create an oppressive atmosphere that pulls your players forward into the light. People naturally head towards the light, and if you mix a dark and foreboding palette with a bright and warm one for key objects and directions, players will naturally want to move towards them.

While not as common in video games as it is in other mediums, color is a great story development tool. A recent game that plays with this concept is Nier: Automata.

It uses color, and the lack of it, to show the dichotomy between what the character believes to be true and what they experience. Sometimes you can just jump right into Photoshop and start throwing colors on a canvas to see what sticks.

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