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Looks good. Unfortunately my colour blindness means the first level after the tutorial was difficult for me to play. Which sucks.

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I'm really sorry about the color problems, my wife also has some color issues that I was trying to work around. I think having a high contrast mode is something I can add.

Thanks for trying it out, really appreciate you letting me know.

Thanks for your reply. I love playing these sorts of games but colours have always been an issue where colour is the primary mechanism of the game. So some games will just be out of reach and I’m ok with that. I wouldn’t want you to over complicate or ruin a nice UI to cater for my needs! Greens, browns and reds will always be an issue. Even blues and purples are hard too.

Hey, I'm not sure you'll see this but I wanted to let you know that I added a color blind assist mode based on another comment's suggestion of adding patterns/textures to the tiles. In the top-right corner is a hamburger menu where the mode can be enabled.

I'm not 100% if this is the right solution for your needs but I'd be interested in hearing if the update helps at all.

Thanks again for the feedback!

At work we had a red/green system for deploys of code to production. We would use a red or green dot in a messaging system. I had to ask if we could use the words stop and go inside the circle which we did and that helped a lot of people. In my company there are a lot of Colourblind developers!

Would a hover with RGB values help? It then becomes a bit of a logic game. For example you have F00 and 0F0 and you need a FF0

Having to hover each time is a little unwieldy. Patterns [0] could be helpful? In this instance it might be neat to have stripes in the cardinal/diagonal directions which can combine into crosshatch, though after 4 colours it would get crowded to represent.

[0] Something similar to https://images.wsj.net/im-194691 for lighter-shade-on-darker shade.

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