File:The Color of Corruption - How Purple Is Used in Video Games-2

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I have been thinking a lot about the use of colors in games, so I wanted to make a brief little piece on one of my favorite colors, purple, and how in games, it often is used as the color of corruption. So, let's take a look at how purple is used in video games.

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These awesome people helped me with some footage! ChrisTheFields - https://www.youtube.com/user/UsedPotato HeavyEyed - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCutGiN7c5-CEFwm_ccixR3g KingK - https://www.youtube.com/user/KingdomKlannad Megabite - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5jBqlOLswKSrb-JjX5LrYg

Ink 9 - http://mitchmartinez.com/ink-stock-footage/.

Music: Up The Spirit Caverns Walls (feat. Tom Boyd) - Gareth Coker - Ori and The Blind Forest OST

My Only Chance by The Toxic Avenger Furi - The Game Bakers Permission for use granted by G4F Records: https://twitter.com/G4F_Records

Resurrections - Lena Raine - Celeste OST

Luma Pools - Gareth Coker - Ori and the Will of the Wisps OST

Pale Court - Christopher Larkin - Hollow Knight: Gods & Nightmares OST

Retro Gone Viral - Taokuoh

I used some images from Wikipedia, so this is me attributing them.

Purple Purpur by © U.Name.Me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Purple_Purpur.jpg This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Attribution: © Hans Hillewaert Hexaplex Trunculus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hexaplex_trunculus.jpg This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Acibutum Vagriegatum, Härtsfeld, Germany by © Bernd Haynold https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aconitum_variegatum_110807f.jpg This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic (CC By 2.5) license.


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