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Another quick reward effect you could do to avoid flashing colors is to make the animals jump up and down, as if they’re happy to get their food

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I liked the insanely rapidly flashing colors.

Rapidly flashing colors may be dangerous for people with epilepsy.

i don't have epilepsy but those colors going that fast were a bit much for me

I wonder if it's better for people with epilepsy to have a simple and more robust solution by getting a monitor that has low refresh rate or limited colors than to try to police all the internet and applications from ever showing flashing colors.

They may and if I had epilepsy then I'd look to do the same, but that won't absolve us of the need to take care so that people without special equipment don't need to worry.

Turn your monitor's refresh rate so low that flashing lights won't actually be flashy and try to operate your mouse cursor. Good luck.

A touch device may be a better option in that case.

I know, I like them too!

This was a popular thing to do in ye olde commodore 64 days, because you could cycle the background color easily in basic, and nobody thought yet that a video game could trigger epilepsy

(honestly, I'm a bit skeptical about this theory even today, but will defer to the typical opinion on this matter, not being an epilepsy expert)

That’s real. I once wrote a quick & dirty bookmarklet to disable all GIF animation on a page because even fairly unremarkable-to-most-of-us GIFs are uncomfortable for an epileptic friend. It is still on https://alanhogan.com/bookmarklets

Really shouldn't be too difficult to do this at the OS level or even hardware level if someone really wanted to make this happen.

I don't think it's that dangerous if the flashing is very rapid, it has to hit some sweet brainwave spot (10x/s ?) I think. The Porygon episode did.

Atari games, too. This reminded me of the end of Missile Command and Adventure.

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