Hey Players
I love colour. Colour has played a big part of my life as far as I can remember.
Everyone has their favourites and can change throughout your life. There are some colours that are not your favourite, however it gives you a sense of empowerment and inspiration. It is awesome if they are both! What those are, is personal choice (based on your current mood) or purpose.
Like many plants and animals on our planet, colour is used for survival, communicating, and to grab attention. We know all too well, when it comes to video games; change your outfit to suit the environment (camouflage), your cross-hairs change colour with a hittable object, an enemy and friendlies, your health indicator changes colour depending on how much health you got left and in the interrogation scene in Detroit: Become Human.
There will be times when you would not be able to add colour to your outfit, like your profession or an occasion. If you are used to wearing a certain colour or colours for long time, it can be challenging breaking free from this habit. This is a journey of exploration and grow an understanding on how colour affects you, others and the world.
Purposeful Colours
As a player, you would be familiar with military style games, like Battlefield and COD (Call of Duty) and others like them. Some character’s outfits have the familiar camouflage print. Each print is used for different environments. It is a means to survive and hid from the enemy and threats. You might as well, wear Christmas lights, turn up your iPod to max, play party music and dance your butt off (sounds like my kind of party). That is a sure way to get killed. I personally love the camouflage print (especially green), due to its use of colour and function and I like the military look. I learnt a lot about camouflage from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Who said you cannot learn anything from video games?
Power Colours
Each person has their own “Power Colours”. Power colours are colours that inspire you or gives you a sense of empowerment and strength. One of mine is blue. Blue makes my natural eye colour stand out and I feel empowered and relaxed when I wear it. For other people, it could be yellow, which, in my opinion, is a happy colour. To add a bit of sunshine to a gloomy day.
Communicating with colour
Colour can be used for communicating or to stimulate an emotion or feeling. The colour we choose to wear, can be a reflection of our mood, and purpose. Let’s take the colour red for example. When you see or think of the colour, what does it remind you of or think about? There are lots of characters (too many to list here) who wears red or have red as part of their entire. Red is often symbolizes, warmth, passion, love, danger, blood (good way to hide the stains (pro-tip from Deadpool)), strength, power, sexiness, anger and energy. Red is also used to encourage decision-making and also grabs our attention. Why do you think certain professions wear certain colours? Just for this reason.
Ways on how to step outside your comfort zone.
Thinking about to try something new can be exciting, however, making the decision to take the first step can be scary. If you decide to make a change, do it one step at a time, otherwise you will get overwhelmed (saying from personal experience). This applies to anything in life.
Below are suggestions for stepping outside your comfort zone with colour:
Keep trying until you make it.
Start small and work your way through until you feel comfortable. There is no harm in trying something new, as the saying goes “Do not knock it until you try it”. You might discover something new about yourself.
What do you think of colour? What colours do you like, and they mean to you?
Signing off for now
Bex
MyGamerWear.com