huh it is weird how purple is so often used in video games for stuff like corruption or dark magic or whatever
Makes a lot of sense actually:
- Purple barely occurs in nature
- is a good contrast color that stands out in most environments and as such can overtake them
- It is dark enough to benefit from the evil = black association, but is much easier to work with than black and gray in animation
- It mixes blue, “good“ and red, “evil“ together (while still being vibrant if you want it to be, mixing green and red as an alternative wouldn’t work bc you just end up with brown)
- associated with royalty and as such with power, and corruption through power
- green as a poison color doesn’t work for a lot of games bc green is already associated with health, so you need something else
- It fucking slaps