What is portals reason for emphasizing on blue and orange?

[themediviso]

I can't be the only one who noticed this, think! blue orange co-op,blue orange gels,blue orange tractor beams,even when portal two co-op was humans, not robots, (chell and mel ) it was blue and orange, mel being blue. post theories below please

[pinkwkid]

The idea for portal was origally taken from a very old game in which the antagonist had to escape from a dungeon using a blue portal and a orange portal. NO JOKE!

[Ninalium]

Maybe they just really like the colours blue and orange.

Also, maybe cause they're contrasting colors that stand out nicely against the mostly white backgrounds.

[Lucy]

Orange and blue are opposites.

[Cat]

Originally posted by TheKidThatIs:

The idea for portal was origally taken from a very old game in which the antagonist had to escape from a dungeon using a blue portal and a orange portal. NO JOKE!

*protagonist. The princess was not the bad one in that game.

Originally posted by Neilium:

Maybe they just really like the colours blue and orange.

Also, maybe cause they're contrasting colors that stand out nicely against the mostly white backgrounds.

I think it's mainly because they wanted to accomodate colourblind people. They have problems distinguishing colours red and green.

[󠀡]

Blue and Orange are two easy colours that are easy to tell the difference for people who are colour blind, so could be that reason Valve decided to use that colour a lot. Who knows really. :P

[llefty]

...I'm going to sound stupid for asking this, but who is Mel?

[themediviso]

good theorys everyone

[themediviso]

i didn't expect people to comment

[R0b0t5Are5uper10r]

Originally posted by Llefty:

...I'm going to sound stupid for asking this, but who is Mel?

A deleted character who was going to be Blue in co-op. Like Chell but blonde hair and blue clothes.

[llefty]

Originally posted by Werewolf Mad Scientist:

Originally posted by Llefty:

...I'm going to sound stupid for asking this, but who is Mel?

A deleted character who was going to be Blue in co-op. Like Chell but blonde hair and blue clothes.

Oh, okay. Is there any background information on Mel? That sounds pretty interesting.

[R0b0t5Are5uper10r]

Originally posted by Llefty:

Originally posted by Werewolf Mad Scientist:

A deleted character who was going to be Blue in co-op. Like Chell but blonde hair and blue clothes.

Oh, okay. Is there any background information on Mel? That sounds pretty interesting.

no there's nothing else

[simius]

I think I know why. It might be just a coincidence but I noticed something while using Blender. There is something called "Face Orientation" which shows us the directions of faces. Blue means it faces towards outside and orange means it faces inside. So it might be something common in game engines.

[themediviso]

Originally posted by Onii-Chan:

I think I know why. It might be just a coincidence but I noticed something while using Blender. There is something called "Face Orientation" which shows us the directions of faces. Blue means it faces towards outside and orange means it faces inside. So it might be something common in game engines.

I didn't know that, neat

[llefty]

Originally posted by Onii-Chan:

I think I know why. It might be just a coincidence but I noticed something while using Blender. There is something called "Face Orientation" which shows us the directions of faces. Blue means it faces towards outside and orange means it faces inside. So it might be something common in game engines.

Okay, but how did you manage to find and necro this 5 YEAR OLD THREAD lol

[Otaco]

hes a god