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Show HN: How good is your color vision? Find out in my new game
Author : vidzert
Score : 25 points
Date : 2025-02-02 00:03 UTC (3 days ago)
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| ConspiracyFact wrote:
| Neat, but it doesn't answer the question. It would be nice to see
| how well you scored compared to others.
| vidzert wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! I get what you mean. Since the levels
| aren't infinite, my initial idea was that anyone who can spot
| all the colors will finish the initial version of the game. But
| I'm planning to add score comparisons if people like it.
| Appreciate you playing!
| zamadatix wrote:
| Time taken too, since this is a game it adds a bit of
| challenge to it beyond "you can/can't see all the colors".
| tclancy wrote:
| Wait, so is seeing the confetti at all mean you "won"? What
| does that amount to?
| A_D_E_P_T wrote:
| It would be nice to see:
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| How many questions there are in total. For e.g., question 1/25
| leads to 2/25, etc.
|
| How many were answered correctly. (There are a couple that I'm
| not sure if I got wrong or was lucky in guessing.)
|
| How one's score compares to the baseline average. (Not to other
| players, because other players could be re-taking the test many
| times or cheating. Take 25 random people, have them play the game
| once with no training or coaching, and use that as the baseline.)
| vidzert wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! Since the game is still in the early
| version, my initial idea was to keep it simple, to see if
| people will play it at all, but I'm definitely planning to add
| features like showing the total number of questions/statistics.
| Appreciate you playing!
| bbarnett wrote:
| What would be really cool, is knowing what was supposed to be
| different.
|
| That is, how was it different? I got all but 1, and it'd be
| neat to know what primary colour was different. Then you'd
| know what your eyes have issue with.
|
| Even neater would be a further series of tests on that
| weakness.
|
| (Some people, mostly some women, have an expressed gene where
| they can detect 4 primaries. Wonder how that works here...)
|
| Just played again. A nice touch would be the ability to play
| with the confetti as it falls. Just a thought.
| anenefan wrote:
| Interesting tool.
|
| It needs a couple of options.
|
| One button option should indicative the person is unable to see
| any difference, and move on, a second button option should be the
| box they indicated they were sure is a different colour was not
| right, and move on. Additionally the tool should map the position
| of the box when they were sure but were wrong, and keep a record
| as the person works though the game, just in case their screen is
| not perfect. Perhaps even come back to the same colour scheme but
| put the different colour in a different part of the screen.
|
| It shouldn't be forgotten that people actually tune into slightly
| different colours given some time - fruit and vegetable graders
| who visually inspect, and those who are working hard to purchase
| the just right fruit and vegs, find given time and practice,
| they'll slowly learn to perceive the very minor differences in
| certain shades or hues.
|
| Edit twice, a couple mins later and another couple for additional
| clarification.
| vidzert wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! My initial idea was to make something
| super simple for children, this is why I didn't add any buttons
| (there are 0 buttons in any of my games on my website, except
| for "start" button). But let me see if there are any
| alternative solution.
| keyringlight wrote:
| I think the screen can definitely be a factor. I'm using a
| monitor with a TN type panel, and the viewing angle will change
| the amount of contrast which makes a difference in the later
| stages. Some would have been impossible to pass first time
| without shifting my head, even if my eyes are up to the task.
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| So I completed it. Did I do well? No metric? Confused.
| al_borland wrote:
| I got the confetti at the end, what did I find out?
|
| There were 2 I had to just start hitting squares until I got it
| right, and one of those I did notice the different one once I
| started tapping, I probably could have spotted it if I was more
| intentional. This seemed significantly easier than the standard
| Ishihara tests for me, which makes me question how well it works
| to judge color vision. I'm red/green color blind and the Ishihara
| test usually have me skipping a significant number, because I
| don't see anything... to the point doctors bring out a basic red,
| yellow, green cards to make sure I can see traffic lights.
| rimunroe wrote:
| I breezed through this test, with the exception of maybe one or
| two squares.
|
| I'm red/green colorblind but constantly doubt if I am. Every
| few years I ask an eye doctor if I'm colorblind. The last time
| I did this they only went through a few pages of the Ishihara
| test before closing it and saying, "Yep, you're colorblind."
| I'm also able to read reverse Ishihara tests which my non-
| colorblind friends can't.
|
| I don't think I've ever called something red when it was green
| or vise versa when someone's asked me to identify its color.
| Red and green look quite different to me! However, I cannot for
| the life of me spot my dog's red frisbee in green grass, or
| pick out a red character among a bunch of green ones without
| looking at each character. These are both things people in my
| family with perfect color vision do just fine and without
| difficulty.
| cwmma wrote:
| > Red and green look quite different to me! However, I cannot
| for the life of me spot my dog's red frisbee in green grass,
| or pick out a red character among a bunch of green ones
| without looking at each character.
|
| This is basically a textbook description of standard red
| green colorblindness. Whenever you find yourself doubting
| whether you actually are red/green colorblind, just go
| strawberry picking with friends.
| rimunroe wrote:
| > Whenever you find yourself doubting whether you actually
| are red/green colorblind, just go strawberry picking with
| friends.
|
| I'm extremely bad at picking fruit in our garden. I'll go
| to pick the raspberries, strawberries, or peppers and only
| find a few. Then my wife will go out and find several times
| my haul from the same plants.
| palata wrote:
| Yep. Whenever I say I am colourblind, people show me a tree
| and ask "what color is it?". And I have to explain that I
| know what red/green is.
|
| An example I give is red flowers in green grass: I may not
| see the flowers at all unless I go very close.
|
| Another one is while climbing indoors: say there is a
| purple route next to a blue one. Some handles I will
| clearly classify as blue, some clearly as purple, and some
| in the middle I won't be able to classify. But non-
| colourblind people will clearly be able to classify them
| all.
| blharr wrote:
| It does seem like they use darker/lighter shades instead of
| redder/greener/bluer at the same intensity but I don't have
| the means to check if that's true
| sprobertson wrote:
| I got some confetti after an unknown number of clicks, but this
| doesn't answer the question of "how good is my color vision"
| delusional wrote:
| Well could you see the multicolored confetti?
| putna wrote:
| lol
| SamBam wrote:
| Yup. I got all but one correct. Confetti but no score.
| unsnap_biceps wrote:
| How did you know it was all but one correct?
| Choco31415 wrote:
| The game beeps if you get a guess incorrect.
| albedoa wrote:
| Yes but for at least some of us, the confetti was seen on
| the round where we used our last guess. So we are
| wondering how the commenter knows there weren't more
| rounds. Did you get confetti on a round that you know to
| have guessed correctly?
|
| Edit: I just played again and am confident that my guess
| before the confetti was correct.
| SamBam wrote:
| I definitely guessed the last one correctly, because it
| was obvious to me, as were nearly all of them.
|
| I'd have to go back through it and deliberately fail on
| the last one to confirm, but I assumed I'd get the error
| beep on the past one if it was wrong.
| jmclnx wrote:
| As someone who has been offered similar buy-outs, the one
| presented here is a poor deal. I would not have taken that one
| unless I already had a job waiting for me.
| killermouse0 wrote:
| Wrong post?
| bstsb wrote:
| on the home page they were next to each other, i thought i
| had clicked on the wrong one ;)
| jmclnx wrote:
| Yes, wrong post. Thanks.
| Euphorbium wrote:
| I got all correct but had to stop and think for the green ones.
| Night_Thastus wrote:
| Same, the a couple of the green ones were quite subtle. Not
| sure if that's due to the developer, human vision, or the how
| color rendering works.
| zacharycohn wrote:
| It's fun! I'd love to see a "final score" - both number
| correct/total number, as well as the time elapsed.
| Night_Thastus wrote:
| (And how good is the color reproduction of your monitor)
|
| If you look at this on a TN screen it's going to be a lot
| different than something like a nice OLED. (Not that OLED doesn't
| have issues, but colors are great on them)
|
| And if you're in sRGB mode or some kind of extended color space.
| And how the OS is configured.
| ctrlp wrote:
| It doesn't tell you how you did. Just a bunch of confetti at the
| end.
| drawkward wrote:
| A web chart
| (https://blog.zohowebstatic.com/sites/zblogs/images/analytics...)
| that shows your % score around a color wheel would be very cool
| matcha-video wrote:
| Why do I need audio for a game about colors? I had to read the
| comments here to figure out why there was no score or indication
| of right / wrong
| ftkftk wrote:
| Feedback: - At end of game show statistics correct/incorrect
|
| - At the end of game show which particular color weaknesses were
| identified
|
| - Show progress meter (1 of 20)
|
| - I have a red/green weakness and I expected to run into issues.
| One of the greens was hard to differentiate but I still got it
| right. I expected it to be harder. Perhaps look up exact pallets
| for different color perception issues and use those.
| antisthenes wrote:
| Are any of them supposed to be hard? I think only the last 2 were
| even remotely challenging.
| kittikitti wrote:
| I'm assuming I did well since I finished it in under 30 seconds.
| Then again, I trained myself to notice even a difference of 1 in
| a channel for a RGB pixel.
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