I’m red green colour blind and I love playing Tumblebugs. However, Tumblebugs relies on some amount of colour matching. Well actually it’s based on it! For the most part I can manage it. I can clear see the reds and the blues. Initially the yellow and greens were a little confusing when the action got a little frantic. However, when the purple ball was introduced, it became a nightmare. As it was practially blue, and I really needed to concentrate to distinguish between the two, and most of the time you just don’t have this amount of time available to you.
Anyway, I came up with a fix;
In the Tumblebugs directory \Program Files\Wildfire Studios\Tumblebugs\media is a file LB_Balls.xml, in here you can make a few changes that allow you to alter the light diffuse amount on the ball.
<material>
<name value="Ball_Purple"/>
<diffuse x="1.0" y="1.0" z="1.0" w="1.0"/>
<transparent value="0"/>
<twosided value="0"/>
<texmap value="LB_Ball_Purple.tga"/>
<restitution value="1.0"/>
<staticfriction value="0.0"/>
<slidingfriction value="0.0"/>
</material>
Now change the diffuse element to the following…
<diffuse x="0.5" y="0.5" z="0.5" w="0.5"/>
and the purple ball gets a lot darker! Play with the other colours to allow seperation of the colours.
All the config and level files are in the same directory as XML files, so it looks very easy to change the game. I guess you could make new levels for it pretty easily if you took the time to study the files further. But as a starter, check the tumblebugs.xml file. There are lots of easy changes you can make to alter the way the game plays.
<lives value="3"/>
<extralifestart value="25000.0"/>
<extralifestep value="50000.0"/>
<extralifestepinc value="25000.0"/>
<extralifestepmax value="500000.0"/>
<balldsename value="LB_Balls.xml"/>
<ballsize value="190.0"/>
<launcherdsename value="LB_Launcher.xml"/>
<launcherballspeed value="10000.0"/>
<eaterdsename value="LB_Eater.xml"/>
<ballscore value="10"/>
<comboscorebase value="150"/>
<comboscoreinc value="150"/>
<chainscorebase value="20"/>
<chainscoreinc value="20"/>
<speedquick value="350.0"/>
<speedreverse value="200.0"/>
<fireballcomboscore value="50.0"/>
See Also : Tumblebugs
Tumblebugs, colour blind
colour blind
