The Color of Corruption - How Purple Is Used in Video Games
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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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#purple #corruption #razbuten
Hey! So, I kind of became obsessed with purple over this past month and wanted to make a brief video to talk about it! I hope you enjoy it. I am working on the next episode of Gaming For A Non-Gamer (yes, animal crossing will be played for it), but in the mean time, if you would like extra clips from the lady I live with's playthroughs (along with other neat perks), check out the patreon: www.patreon.com/razbuten
Other than that, I have been streaming on Twitch a bunch, so if you'd like my unfiltered thoughts, go check that out too: www.twitch.tv/razbuten
Thank you for, like, being nice to me and stuff. I appreciate it and you.
Edit: for all you Terraria lovers, I should have shown a clip from the game. I planned to, but then I realized I didn't own it, so I figured "well, I have enough examples of this, it will be fine." I did you wrong, and if I ever make a director's cut of this video, I will put a clip of it in there. I hope you can forgive me.
There’s a whole movie about the Color Purple. Check that out. Lol
This video tasted like purple
Yass my favorite color!
I never thought about colors in games, but this video made me realize the importance of colors.
Is there purple Raycon earbuds?
“Purple is the color of corruption”
I knew something was a bit off with Barney
Woah genius joke here
I love you you love me
About that beer I owned ya..
Barneynort
@@amareyk We're a "happy" family
What about pink?
The color of "Oh shit, a texture just broke"
*intense flashbacks to gmod*
*abrupt screams of pain and terror from trying to find the problem*
Pink and Black
Just pink is "Oh shit, it's Barbie or other terribly pictured female character"
Pink has the weirdest place in the pop culture, sometimes it represents Love/Cuteness/Health, but sometimes it's Sexiness/Lust/Sin/Confusion.
@@gay_madilynn that hurts me
Hey man, you forgot something interesting.
Purple is also the color of skin getting bruised.
When someone gets bruised, it gets purple.
So it may also mean that it's something that has been damaged.
It even looks like corruption; because you can even usually see veins or under the skin when it is bruised to the point of becoming purple.
Also, people get purple for other reasons. Usually when being sickly, when circulation is cut, out of air, etc.
Hope that made sense!
Thanks for the video!
i kept waiting for him to mention bruises and he never did
I also makes u think like its a parasite that shouldn't be there
Well, you are correct, technically... Have you ever been in a situation where you got bruised and it went from red->purple->black->green>yellow? The rainbow of pain...
it's basically this...and also the thing with the outworld because it's rare and special in nature (not much as blue but hey, there's the sky). all of the other stuff are just a big stretch ...
honestly, the fact that he did talk about all the others things he covered and not about the obvious things like bruising, choking or pustules, gives me the feeling he didn't really think this video through. Like, the entire way video games threat corruption is directly taken from Lovecrafts squid monsters and the way they corrupt things.
It's simple: in nature, purple = poison. Colour theory is a nice add-on, but the royalty stuff doesn't sound like it would have played a factor at all.
This made me realize how clever Hollow Knight was in using orange as the color of its corruption. Since the hero is shadow-themed and the main force of evil is literally the personification of light, it makes sense that the designers near-inverted the traditional color associations.
Bro went deep
Greenish orange is also a way more natural way of depicting corruption
Alternatively they chose orange because it LOOKS like a bloated pus filled pustule.
you read my mind
Least thought out indie game plot:
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the most primary occurance of purple in nature: at twilight, when the light of day gives way to the shadow of night, and the sky is purple.
That was my second thought, right after hypoxia (and also bruising).
literal transition from light to dark or vice versa.
its orange
You see purple because of the fumes from cars and factories bending the light, in a way corrupting it.
Also bruising, and nightshade. Also, there are few purple food sources
Another aspect to the "Purple is used as a stand-in for black" is the fact that if you use too much grey it gives off a depressed vibe more than an evil vibe.
Ya true
Mmmhmmm
Isn't that what they did with Purple Guy sprite in the FNaF 2 minigames because the backgrounds were completely black?
Purple-black missing texture from GMod
@@breadbread4697 Also it would be unfortunate to call the murderer "black guy"
Most games: purple bad
Hollow Knight: O r a n g
It makes sense, though. Orange makes a huge contrast with the dark, cold colors of most of Hallownest. It feels more unnatural than purple, which would just blend in (look no further than Crystal Peak). Plus, the main antagonistic force in Hollow Knight is light, not dark, so it makes sense to use orange and yellow.
Dinoman972 Yeah, but it only works because of how Hallownest is built, it’s a lot of dark colors, including some purples. So orange in this scenario makes more sense than any other color, but in most games purple is the most contrasting element because most games are overall brighter than HK
Terraria: *R e d*
ShadowShooter 2.0 Well the Crimson wasn’t added until 1.2, before then it was only the corruption. The corruption is kind of, the embodiment of this whole video which makes it odd that Terraria wasn’t included (although the creator said there was going to be footage of it at one point.)
Darn, I was gonna make that joke.
The idea of purple being the color of corruption can also apply to places like Japan, where the color purple is commonly associated with death, which is why Lavender Town is the only town with an explicit theme of grief, dying and sadness. It also influenced Rayman's Japanese localization, as his body is purple, but it was changed to blue overseas to make him seem more heroic.
Also the venom type is purple
Razbuten: "Purple is the color of Corruption"
_Looks at Razbutens profile pic_
Me: *Uhhh*
deepest lore
The plot twist DUN DUN DUUNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Corrupt by the algorithm
*looks at my profile thumbnail*
Guess UA-cam thinks I'm corrupted...
This video is a cry for help
"It's the colour of something spreading that must be stopped"
literally the perfect place to put in the terraria corruption
AND THERE IS NO TERRARIA IN THE BLOODY VIDEO
i mean malice fits that description pretty well too
"Purple is the Color of Corruption"
Terraria Players: "Just Like The Simulations"
Exactly
Johnathan M THANK YOU
yeah
yes.. very wise this one
*Takes out clentaminator*
Purple is also used to signal something rare and magical, and extremely powerful. Something alien and dissonant, out of this world. Not necessarily evil per se, just different, powerful and ancient.
Not something unnatural, so much as something completely alien to the nature you know and are familiar with, assuming I understand your meaning correctly
Tunic uses this well with the the purple/pink liquids spread around the world symbolizing something alien, which is supported when you enter a certain underground factory
Are those what purple symbolise in the past history or are they a new thing
This can be seen in Astroneer. There are this massive purple structures, both at the center of each planet and on the surface which purpose is not revealed until the end of the game.
minhecraft ancaented weapons:
People who like the colour purple:
"Maybe I am corrupt?"
Yes you are within the Terraria realm.
@@WolfyRed well then rip syntreli, one of their terraria characters' has a outfit that's entirely purple along with purple hair too lmao
I think purple is beautiful 🟣
I'm probably corrupt ... or I have a taste of royalty for color....
Who knows
@@ghostyssr1121 _bruh._
@@WolfyRed BRUH!!!
“Purple is the color of corruption”
Flashbacks in terraria
*cries as i get humiliated by eater of souls*
That’s the first thing that went through my mind when I saw the title of the video lol
*Gets Stuck in One of those Pits and Gets Bullied by Eater of Souls*
World purity flashbacks
Thought the same thing
If purple is a rare colour in nature its abundance means that something unnatural is happening.
Exactly my thinking :D
And in real life magic is blue so
That make so much sense!!
@@ThePandJ Biden and Kamala wore purple in becoming president
It's a common flower color where I live.
That intro and build up to the “purple is associated with corruption” line was pretty epic, props for that
terraria moment
Yeah but purple in terraria is only evil 33% the other 66% id split between the hallow and crimson
The hallow is not considered an evil biome, it just spreads like one
@@1971taks crimson is considered as evil
@@edwinmaster7326 The hallow is just too pure to the point that it wants to kill anything that's not 100% pure.
In nature, there's a frequent appearance of purple that's not based on royalty:
The color of bruises, some infections, etc.
This seems like a much easier to explain reason why blood is corruption when it shows up in human wounds.
I was gonna mention this too. Purple is associated a little bit with a lingering injury, a weakness from a seemingly minor injury.
Purple is associated with death because a body turns purple when the person dies.
@@the11382 necrosis
i paused the video for this comment when he said purple is bad because it is tied to royalty,
coz the biggest reason should be because of bruises
falling over on the street and getting bruises, these are purple.
I don't get why greenish yellow is considered poison though, maybe coz vivid plants have poison?
I wonder when he came up with the name for the video as "the color of corruption" primed me to think of corrupt governements and people. However, after I read some comments another name popped up - "the color of infection". It clearly shows how both purple and orange fit this name in our world - both are the colors of fresh or old bruised wounds and purulence. And in many games these colors are used to show infection connected to living beings, even when they call it a corruption. StarCraft, Hob, Hollow Knight, etc.
Wealthy people: *wear purple, the rarest color, to express their wealthiness*
Peasant accidentally mixing up the blue and red dyes: stonks
ha ha ha, how would a peasant afford blue and red? All peasants can afford is faded brown!
21st century:
Cleaning our asses with purple washcloths in the shower of running, heated water.
Olden wealthy people:
What kind of witchcraft is this?
If I recall, there aren't that much natural blue dyes out there
@@starshade7826 he's exaggerating (I know you know) the one who found it was actually some scientist called William Henry Perkin.
@@mayelinesantana Is he the one playing with tar?
Now that you mention it, the number of examples of the “purple phenomenon” is actually astounding
It is just like fire being red
But in reality the most hot flame is the blue flame almost invisible, which usually represents when the fire is made by high tech people or things
Yeah it really is
You have
Madeline's reflection
Purple guy from fnaf
Ori and the blind forest
And a bunch of other games
Borderlands Eridium is what I suddenly remembered
if your shit is purple from all those purple crayons you've eated you done shitted.
@@KZ-hu9uj
slag.
I’d like to see an eery/creepy game which completely switches colors around. A purple health bar which turns to yellow at low health. “Evil” things being green and blue. It’s minor details that gives an unsettling feeling but players won’t really know why - I love that type of stuff!
Green is also commonly used as an evil color. It's even more prominent than purple to represent poison, dark magic sometimes has this color (most notably in Disney films) and some evil creatures are green, like orcs.
I think it could be clever and at the same time confusing to have the colors represent the same thing but a little different: like for a health bar instead of green (plants) what about brown?(wood,some animals, dirt)
@@guillemtb1671 ehhh i'd say purple is more prominent for dark magic. but poison is definitely green yeah
Razbuten: Purple is the color of corruption
Terraria players: Yes
Also red but ok.
@@grub7470 that's the crimson
J00ky d4wg that’s crimson
I thought this was a terraria video lol
Papp “purple is the color of corruption” but he doesn’t mention terraria at all in the entire video aaaaaahhhhh why
"...color of coruption"
*looks at Twitch icon*
It all makes sense now
haha
haha
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Ahh yes... For power... For the fame.... For the money... Then some resort to clickbaits or steal content to maintain their status... It all makes sense now...
ahahaha
I was really expecting some Terraria in this video and kept waiting for it. The Corruption is literally purple! But great video nonetheless Raz, as always.
Legit was waiting for Terraria to pop up the whole video.
- My brain, the whole time
Yeah the most sad part of this video, but it's also my only complaint.
Exactly what I was thinking
Terraria was the first instance of corruption I thought of and yet it wasn’t mentioned :(
As a visual designer, one of the main things that makes purple have its specific relevance, is that it is typically tied to a sense of mysticism and unknown matter that we are inexperienced with. This relates to how purple, like said, doesn't really manifest itself consistently in nature. It has no clear associations, so by default our brain will perceive anything purple as "unknown". Some social difference do however exist, for example in many regions of southern France the color purple is one of the most widely associated colors of nature due to the vast land covered in lavender fields. But to most other regions of the world, this is not the case. So with the other base colors having clear assigned associations, purple is the one that sticks out and indicates the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unnatural.
Terraria dryad: your world is 1% corrupt you should try harder
😭
i was really sad when I realized that he went the whole video without mentioning terraria corruption.
Ikr
Sounds like the animals in the first instalment of Zoo Tycoon.
"There is a single blade of green grass in my pen, and I will have none of it, absolutely none of it, RID MY LIVING SPACE OF THIS VILE STALK!!!"
"Eyes Glow Red With Malicious Intent"
Razbuten: “purple is the colour of corruption”
Terraria with an entire biome called the corruption that is entirely purple: isn’t mentioned
Terraria players also with an entirely different form of corruption called the crimson that is red.
Narwhal Tophats It’s crimson, Not corruption. But I understqnd what you mean
Davidd that is what he said
@@user-es1sn6pz5e nop
@@msaocer Nope. Crimson is the red one. Corruption in the purple one.
“Purple is the color of corruption”
Politicians: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!
Tfw you realize they already use red and blue
@@solidcreature5950 kill centrists
Consider this: Royalty wear purple.
@@panzerkampfyoutubekommenta4947 oof
@@panzerkampfyoutubekommenta4947
Curious cause I've been seeing this everywhere: what's up with centrists?
1:32 - 2:24 this is one of the things you do so well. These intros that are so perfectly crafted that they almost make me tear up. The way the music starts at the mention of purple and builds to the title, and the more specific uses of purple leading up to it... so good. Awesome job on this and every video.
I keep coming back from time to time juste for that intro. It's so good
Furi music also carries it quite hard
I went back to this video for this exact time stamp. Love it so much.
"Purple its the Color of corruption"
Terraria and Fnaf Lore: Yea, How you didnt notice?
@@gronkalonk *HMM INTESIFILES*
@Nature Angel the man behind the slaughter
@Nature Angel The purple guy
I’m kinda pissed he didn’t feature those 2 games actually 😂
Like terraria’s purple biome is LITERALLY called corruption 😂
@@gronkalonk hello there fellow purple man
Traditionally, purple represents mystery, which also makes sense when you adapt it to something "evil" and unknown.
It also represents royalty.
Random thing: * emits photons of a certain wavelenght *
Humans: "Ah yes, corruption."
also random thing: *emits clouds of Particles which coalesce with said photons of a certain wavelength*
Humans: "Ah yes, i would like to note the fact that i am now slowly and painfully ceasing all functions necessary for the state of 'being alive' *pained groans* "
*Noise which occurs when a heavy object falls from a considerable height*
There's no such wavelength that makes purple.
@@lyrimetacurl0 did you even proof read your own shit there mate? if there were no bloody wavelength fer it, how'd WE BE ABLE TA FOCKEN SEE IT'N? 's you daft?
Edit: ahem, missed a 'ta'
@@lyrimetacurl0 according to the Georgia State University Department of Physics and Astronomy, violet light has a wavelenght of approximatively 380-450 nanometers. Then we can start a debate on the difference between violet and purple but I feel like it goes a bit beyond my aim, which was to simply make a joke...
@@lyrimetacurl0 magenta*
Fun Fact: some of the black pieces in The Addams Family musical, including Morticia’s dress, were actually a dark purple and could appear black to the audience based on the lighting onstage. I believe this was for a similar reason as you mentioned - to increase visual interest and depth, but also to keep her from looking washed-out.
Ye
I agree so much
And speaking of music when he introduced the idea that was an awesome song. Like dang
Don’t be surprised when someone takes it
Yo English we commented within the same 1/2 hour how awesome is that
There's a DLC of the game Darkest Dungeon with a title that's almost like it, though instead of Corruption it's The Color of Madness. The OST is absolutely worth checking out-- my word might not mean much as a stranger on the internet, but to me it is one of the best examples of a more aggressive form of Eldritch horror-like music i've ever heard.
LOL I am perfectly alright with the new lore that I am your nemesis. It's probably because I don't like Zelda 2
YOU DARE?!!
You mean the adventure of link? I'm not z big fan either....
Nobody likes Zelda 2.
Jesus come on sno get your head out of your ass and into the game!!! You can’t say that you don’t like Zelda 2
Geez man dont scare me like that for a sec I thought u meant botw 2 but ya Zelda 2 is kinda bad
Razbuten: “It’s the color of something spreading that must be stopped”
Me: no one can stop waluigi
me: me: me: me:
waluigi can corrupt me any day of the week 😋😋😩😩😩😩😫😫😫🤤🤤🤤🤤
Except for Sakurai
Except Sakurai.
Especially when you talk about Smash Bros.
He will be added...hE WiLl
Purple is the color of corruption in Minecraft too! The End is basically an entire dimension based off of static corruption. The sky is a dark shade of purple static. And the Endermen's eyes are purple too. The Ender Dragon herself breathes purple breath. Her eyes are also purple as well. As well as the chorus fruit. Which is a plant of unnatural growth.
Terraria:
Exactly. The End and everything within is corrupted in some way.
“Purple is an unnatural color” *cries in lavender*
Lavender is also more innocent, it's lighter and the flower gives off a calming smell.
@@mintyflores7378 just like salvia
@@teratoma. thought you said saliva for a second there
Yeah but that’s lavender, show me the kind of purple you see in video games in nature, I want to fill my garden with it
@@artemisfowldragon
No flowers I know of, amethyst is purple though.
"A horrible chill goes down your spine..."
"Screams echo around you..."
"Eater of Worlds has awoken!"
Time to murder for a scarf
I was just playing terraria, and got destroyed by the eater of worlds
The brain of bruh has awoken
And then you see him
Shia Lebouf
But the most valuable piece of currency in all of gaming is also purple: *the mythical PURPLE STUD*
For real, where's my fellow Lego game playerbase at?
Ha I just know lord garmadon has purple as a prominent color
Gotta get that True Jedi reward
Cant wait for the new star wars game
I'm here!
Purple studs for everyone!,
I love how you’re so good at making these that you were able to turn “purple is the color of corruption because of corrupt kings, a mix of blue and red, and a contour to black” into a 10 minute video i watch at least once a week
i like how this implies that wario and waluigi are "unnatural forces".
Wario and waluigi were genetiniclaly made in a lab as copies of mario and thats why theyre unnatural /J
@@PatchyThePirate_ honestly it would be pretty funny if that was their canon backstory
They are
They are corrupted version of the protags
Well, Wario can be considered as an unnatural force in regards of his strength. In Super Mario 64 DS you can play as Mario, but also as others, for example Wario. And he is the only one to destroy those black brick blocks that can be found in the levels.
I can't believe Waluigi is a plague on the Mushroom Kingdom
You dare defame the great Waluigi?!?!
*W A H*
Poison mushroom
"In games, its the color of corruption"
Terraria: exactly!
Lemon Pep what is there in terraria that is purple I’m curious
@@sharkoshak7656 purply dye?
@@sharkoshak7656 The literal "corruption", it's a biome that keeps spreading unless you do something about it.
@@sharkoshak7656 There are 2 types of "evil" biomes (areas) in terraria. Crimson is based on blood and entrails and is therefore red and *corruption* which is based on decay and death and is ... *purple*
Thanks guys!
A couple of things I wanted to note that may be related to the origins of using purple in this way is that it's been used like this in comic books for almost a century. In the early days of superhero comics, the major heroes almost always wore primary colors, such as The Flash, Captain America, and the one who started them all, Superman. Heck, even the original Green Lantern wore a primarily red costume. As a result, villains (and evil in general) were typically portrayed with secondary colors, especially purple and green. Classic examples of this include The Joker, The Riddler, and Lex Luthor. Because of their association with villainy, dangerous substances started using these colors as well, such as dark magic, evil technology, and, of course, poison often being represented by the color purple. I wouldn't be surprised if video games use this convention for very similar reasons. Early video game protagonists (Mario, Pac-Man, and Mega Man, for example) also tended to wear primary colors, after all.
it's interesting that the hulk is green and purple. He was one of the first heroes to have villain colors. When he got angry he lost control and often felt out of place as a result. So his colors were chosen to show that he was an outsider even amongst heroes. I'd love to see a video game subvert the stereotype in this same way.
*Sees a lavender field*
Razbuten: The spread of corruption
*burns field*
*Pulls out smg*
As long as it ain't crimson
Lavender town
Razbuten: "Purple is the color of Corruption"
Me playing Jedi Fallen Order: *Chooses the purple crystal color because it looks cool.*
*Sam Jackson breaks down your door*
Struggling against corruption is a lovely character arc and arguably one that Cal has bc he could be struggling against his fear and the urge to just hide again. But alsp yeah purple is heckin cool.
Honestly even though Samuel L Jackson just asked for the purple lightsaber, it makes so much sense since he embodies everything wrong with the Jedi Council
Jaxyaboy “he’s too dangerous to be kept alive!”
That's actually very much the purple crystal lore. It represents the dark side, and one's struggle/balance with it. Mace Windu very much struggled with the dark side, and that's why he has a purple lightsaber (in the lore, we all know the real world reason it exists). The same goes for Revan.
Also, if anyone is interested in finding out more about Mace Windu's character, I suggest picking up the book Shatterpoint. It's like Apocalypse Now mixed with Star Wars, and it's a fascinating read.
You forgot one more detail: in nature there is an important association with the color purple which we evolved to distinguish: it is the color of dead bodies and decomposing flesh. It is in our instinct to associate purple with something rotten and wrong: "Avoid this, it will harm you! "
As in someone once good rotting, turning evil. William and Michael Afton.
@@glassofwater281 only Michael rotted purple
GLaDOS William was rotting purple in the suit if I recall correctly
Micheal sacrificed him self to kill all the remaining animatronics and put their souls away and when down with them and Henry how is he bad do you even play fnaf
In Terraria, it literally calls it “Disease-Like”
Your 10 minute essay about the purple color is very cool. Those were my exact thoughts when I first encountered purple in media at the age of 5.
Lol exactly this comment
“Purple is the color of corruption”
*Saints Row would like to know your location*
Well it is a gang sooo
...you do realize those are total villains in that game, right?
I guess it was supposed to be "royal" with all those french lilies and stuff, but honestly the whole corruption theory works best, especially if you treat the Boss as one character through all the games and see them go from a regular thug to a crazy demigod
@@SeanStrife The 3rd Street Saints go from being typical gangsters to anti-heroes though
The saints are a threat tho
The first person to use Purple as Evil : Oh damn this looks pretty cool
The English teacher :
Lots of lettuce!
@Giorno but he's trying to stay hidden I mean don't all the top comments use that same tactic
@Giorno Giovanna for president i agree with you.
@Giorno Giovanna for president he has 1 comment
@Giorno Giovanna for president lying about people commenting over and over again won't get you the fame you wanted as a child but never gotten
"Purple is the color of corruption."
Mace Windu: *starts looking around nervously*
Star Wars has its own color encoding. With blue and green lightsabers tending to represent the light side and red being the dark side. What do you get when you make a synthesis of light (blue) and dark (red)? Mace Windu also had a unique style of fighting that allowed him to utilize a saber form generally only used by dark side users without falling to darkness. It's complicated.
Also, Samuel L. Jackson just wanted a purple lightsaber.
@@stungunnotapplicable1953 wait should i r/woosh this guy or...
Sean Jacobsen no, because it isn’t funny, original, and it doesn’t add anything
@@球公鸡 it wasnt a joke man whatcha talkin about
@@seanjacobsen3168 that's the point, it's not a joke. More like a fact.
2:01 The drop goes so hard man, absolutely killer
The first 2-3 minutes for the intro is one of the best I've seen for a UA-cam video. Setting the tone and the base line with explaining how colours are perceived and represented in games, and then providing a contrast with purple. And my goodness... 1:30 . you are going to say "... and then there's purple...", and then hit me with my favourite song from furi (my only chance). Nice. You then go on to explain purple's uses in games as the music rises and show the title card at the best part of the song 2:00 . The title card itself has yellow for the text and purple for the background(contrasting colours). The purple spreads in the background and then even spreads and covers the text... corruption. Nice intro...
Also, 7:00 i think there is something in star wars like that with the person's lightsaber. Cool that you brought that up
I mean purple colour in star wars is a lore breaker lol. Master Windu has a purple light saber literally because Samuel L Jackson wanted a purple light saber. Then the fandom made stories around his purple light saber which represents a very dangerous light saber fighting form that Master Windu uses, so dangerous and easy to fall into the dark side that the jedi council lets no one else other than Windu use it.
Me, realizing that Doofenshmirtz' tower is purple: *oh shit*
He did become a good guy at the end
Hey, he's trying his best to seem bad lmao!
Honestly most of his schemes are just him trying to get back at his brother for being much more successful than him
Doof en schmeerz
Stupid in pain (in german)
@@LimeTortilla and then there's that one time he wanted to make cheese and Perry ate his entire 600$ cheese wheel so he understandably gets mad
"and almost none of my enemies wear purple on a regular basis" I actually laughed out loud
I sure hope they don't wear people. Might want to fix that spelling mistake.
@@wastingyourtime05 we never know
@@natanbcpc true
"yOUVE NEVER SEEN A PURPLE ARMY" -the boyz
“*Almost* none”
Another thing to note is that in color theory purple is the polar opposite of green-green being the most commonly associated color with nature, making purple contrast so greatly against everything we classify as natural in our world.
Yeah, not quite the polar opposite, just almost the opposite. They are far apart but they aren’t complementary. (Since it's green/magenta in RGB or yellow/purple in RYB)
In pigments, purple is opposite to yellow. In light, purple is opposite to greenish yellow.
Red and green are opposite. Purple and yellow are opposite
“Purple is the color of corruption.”
Me: *Thinking about Terraria* Oh, that’s why it’s called that!
yeah
Red: *Laughs in crimson*
Laughs in calamity mod
YES
I was really surprised he didn't mention Terraria. I guess it's a little on the nose, but I can't think of a better example.
"The color of corruption"
William Afton: *It's not corruption if it makes money...*
Politicians : l
@@chimaudeh5159 William afton is the purple guy from fnaf.. Not a politician. Well atleast according to game theory, idk if it's confirmed or not tho, shadow paradox correct me if I'm wrong.
@@IssaalaaRacing its a joke man. The guy replied "Politician" because thats how some politicians do things, they rather dirty their own hands to gain more money or just nothing.
Edit: also, "William Afton" is the canonical(meaning that its confirmed) name of Purple Man according to the books Scott published. Its not a fan name made by Game Theory
Money
Shadow Paradox, or murder’s small children!
this is easily one of my favorite videos on youtube, its such a simple concept but its made really well, and the title screen alone is a work of art and definitely an inspiration for me
"Purple is the color of corruption"
*Terrarian vietnam flashbacks*
Vietnam?
Terrarian?
(eater of worlds flashback)
Lmao
Those damm gray birds.
For blue it’s also one of the hardest colors to find naturally occurring outside of water and the sky so it works with the ethereal and sometimes unaturual way magic works
I mean a lot of plants are blue, and you'd think the sky is something everyone with one working eye could see
but the two sources of blue in nature are arguably the most magical and ethereal things we see.
I cannot remember the exact source, but some time ago I heard that the first humans, even the Ancient Greek, were unable to see the color blue. And surveys/experiments with today's hunter-gatherer societies suggest that they are still unable to see the color blue, even though they are better at differentiating shades of green than the average Westerner.
@@dansattah crazy
"Purple is the color of corruption"
First thing I think about: that purple water from the "Where's My Water?" app
Omg I remember that app! Used to play it all the time as a kid
I dont remember it being in the game, is it some kinda poison water?
@Fendy
*It’s,literal poison,idk why and how,but it is*
@@adrianascarvalho it’s the sewers, anything can happen down there
Purple is my favorite color and the coloring aspect of game dev is a very much less talked about thing and this video made my day by talking about both. Thanks and keep up the work
Terraria is a good example of this. The purple in Terraria is literally called, “Corruption!”
@@riley_-zm8vr hallow isn't really a type of corruption, as NPCs can live in it, but if you have your base covered in the stuff, expect some increased difficulty.
@@UmbraMG The Hallow gives me big Xe'ra and Galeem vibes. There's something wrong with it. I definitely see it as just as big of a problem as the corruption and crimson.
@@riley_-zm8vr The other is red, I believe it is called crimson. SO idk seems gud.
@@UmbraMG It IS a corruption.
Purple in a lot of games is called corruption
"Purple is the color of corruption"
Me: *looks around at my purple blanket, purple phone case, my purple outfits in multiple games and in real life, and my purple face masks* oh yeah, totally.
Purple is my favorite color so I have a lot of it. It's definitely corrupted my life lol. And even if it symbolizes corruption in games, it still has so much beauty to it. It's peaceful yet lively and stands out. I love it a lot.
Hannah Davis Purple is my favorite as well! ^_^
yesss purple is my favorite color and usually with characters I make I’ll have purple represent mystery rather than corruption.
It’s been so long
Purple is my favorite colour as well. From the blankets on my bed to my favorite tshirt its everywhere. In my life it symbolizes the corruption we all face in our lives.
From the toxic political agendas we hear of, to corrupt police and people taken from us too soon. Purple is a reminder of how dark the world can be and how careful we must be living in this dark world.
They're minerals Marie, for god's sake!
I’ve always wondered how drastically being colorblind affects my interpretation of colors in games. Some game mechanics are even impossible to use due to bad color choices, so I always wonder how much I’m missing out on by not being able to distinguish colors as well.
Oof
Big F for the colorblind guy here
F
Yea I watched a video on a color I can't even see
May I ask what colors you have issues seeing?
Great video, I love this kind of stuff.
But what keeps me coming back to this video is the sick usage of music with the “My Only Chance” track.
You introduce us to the colour purple with the downbeat of the song ( 1:31 ), already giving us a subconscious message of shifting focus, but also letting the mood of the music help your message. Then you let you voice fall out and bring the music to the forefront with the title screen and the first real drop of the song with a sick creeping purple effect on the screen to further drive home the idea you’re trying to explain. ( 2:06 )
And of course as an avid World of Warcraft fan, I totally geeked out seeing that SICK shot of N’zoth being all menacing.
Amazing video editing and theme design!
"Purple is a color of corruption"
Mace Windu: I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing!
I mean, their retroactive explanation for the purple lightsaber is literally that you had to master the light side and some of the dark side to get a purple lightsaber, so yeah, that example still fits in pretty well.
😂😂😂😂
@@kurowkarasu
True.
@Mr. Al And why are you so butthurt over my comment? Nobody's feelings were hurt by a purple lightsaber except yours, but I guess you have some issues, so I hope venting on the UA-cam comments section helped. Idc about Disney or Star Wars enough to argue either way.
@@kurowkarasu "Take a seat, young UA-camr."
Purple is also opposite to green in terms of light (not pigment). So if green represents nature, purple is fitting for everything that is not natural
So it's, supernatural?
@Greg M. Pastur purple is also opposite to low bloods
Huh, like gangs in GTA:SA. GSF being green and Ballas being purple
Like the cursed flames of the corruption in Terraria
Violet : wow...thanks for making me wanna go die in a ditch ō-ō
The first 2 minutes and 30 seconds are just, absolutely how you make an introduction to your video, from pacing to music to inflection in the voice. Damn, Raz. Killing it.
Gives me goosebumps every time I see it
Goosebumps. Exactly.
Razbuten is getting powerful with his editing skills
i often come back to this video just to watch and listen to the introduction again. the way it is written, said and edited is absolutely perfect in terms on introduction: the context is set, there is a progression and finally an implicit question that starts the video. as someone who as to write papers quite often i get really inspired by how this was made. this is excellent work, the introduction and the rest of the video, both separate and as a whole. i never thought i would be commenting about that one day but damn good work has to be pointed out!!
"How Purple is Used in Video Games"
*hears Spider Dance*
oh no the PTSD
Muffet's fight is not that hard. Even if you aren't able to bribe her with gold or pastries.
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter it's much harder than anything else you've fought by that point
“Purple is the colour of corruption”
**terraria intensifies**
**Me and the boys just vibing to the Corruption Theme**
Qumu corruption remix...
farming souls of night in the crouption while vibing to the theme
fun fact: i have never seen hardmode corruption. i love crimson that much
@@kirb728 The color red is associated with evil.
in terrira the purple biome is literally just called "the corruption"
...yea that checks out
Purple is such a great color because it has so many variations into blue, red, bright and dark which all are fascinating.
"Purple is colour of corruption"
Terraria players: Well yes, but actually yes.
Hollow Knight: [Laughs in reverse card]
Yes
69 likes nice
And LITERALLY too. They really whack you over the head with it.
@@theknightwithabadpictotall7639 was gonna make that joke but ok
Terraria gang, _it's literally called "The Corruption"_
Exactly
*Happy Eater of Worlds noises*
@@rodneyyt-lf4rd According to him, he knew about it, but he doesn't own Terraria, and wasn't about to buy it and play a few hours just to get an example - he already had enough examples. Though arguably, Terraria is one of the best examples because of how straight it plays this.
@@DatMageDoe yeah. Literally everything in the corruption is purple. Its called the corruption. It spreads. Its evil. Its perfect
Most games: "Purple is bad! Stay away from the purple!"
Saint's Row: "Hold my blackcurrant squash."
The Saints save a country they got rid of lots of gangs thoughout Stilwater they saved Steelport’s beloved monument what more?
the colour they use is directly linked to royalty. They consider themselves like the kings of the street.
moreover, although they are the nicest of the gangs(sort of, maybe, from a certain point of view ), they are still very dangerous, corrupt and immoral. So everything checks out!
Hades: Hold my darkness
I like that purple can be a stand-in for black when it comes to themes of evil and corruption because it’s easier to see.
I love that you pointed out the “transition” part with purple, because before I watched this video further, that’s what I figured.
I think one more aspect you've missed on the color theory level is how purple is on the exact opposite of the RGB color wheel to green (and, sure classical color theory prefers RYB where magenta opposes yellow, but I feel like the divide between physical colors and virtual colors also brings with it those different color theory codings). If green represents life, then purple is the reverse of that - it's death.
Also used when they changed the Hulk to green and his trousers to purple
Actually purple is the opposite of yellow, redis the opposite of green
Bulbaking Doot RGB purple = 255, 0, 255 and RGB green = 0, 255, 0
@@niels6190 ok but rgb isn't a wheel, it's closer to a 3D space
@Ow my Bones my mistake
I actually had a discussion very similar to this with one of my art professors when I was in college. I had used a dark purple palette in a piece that was meant to have a creepy, threatening mood to it. She asked why I would use purple when its typical connotation was that of royalty instead of something sickly-looking like green or yellow. I explained to her that much of the media I was familiar with used purple to represent "poison", specifically in things like pokemon or in any video game where you've had to traverse toxic sludge (in regards to that in particular, I think it makes sense to use purple for corrupted water in place of green because green could be more easily confused with regular water or surrounding grassy terrain). To me it had a much darker and more ominous feeling to it than something bright and bold like green.
My thought: green poison is still a nature-created poison while purple poison is unnatural.
Love how he DIDN’T mention terraria the game where purple is literally called ‘the corruption’
I just looked at the rest of the comments and I’m liking the abundance of others with my opinion yes!
Look at the pinned comment
I cleanse the Corruption with the clentaminator
I think purple can also be interpeted as "corrupting" because of our own anatomy. Brusing, infection, and sometimes blood can be a purple color. So if something (besides a flower/fruit) is purple, you know something is deeply wrong
Purple was also used as a substitute for black in comic books, particularly early on when large areas of black ink were more likely to bleed through to the other side of the page.
same thing with the color blue.
@@plesbeans7440 Yep. But blue already has a load of positive connotations, so purple ended up being the evil color.
“Purple is the color of corruption”
Spyro: Am I a joke to you?
Spyro A Hero's Tail: It'S pUlSaTiNg WiTh EvIl
prince is not thrilled either.
Neither is Barney
Spyro was destined to follow in the footsteps of Malefor, the other purple dragon who was very corrupt and evil. Spyro Lore is really interesting but there's few little purple dragons because it's destined they'll destroy the world so they were culled.
Hollow knight entered the chat
I've been playing the Hades a lot recently and I ended up thinking back to this video because, funnily enough, in that game, the color purple is exclusively used for things that are good for you. It's used for your main progression currency called darkness as well as for power ups that come from Dionysus. Those are 2 different shades of purple used.
Maybe it's because it's a game that is based on the underworld and so that's why it's an inverse of the typical codified game language of purple? The character that is most associated with that color is Nyx, who is a queenly yet maternally supportive figure who provided you with the means to upgrade yourself in the first place. No corruption there, it's just business as usual for the prince to be trying to escape.
Thanks to whoever bothered to read this ramble. Have a good day!
I thought it was very interesting to read. Thank you for writing it up!
Yes but it is call the "darkness"
I think the purple from Dionysus actually makes a lot of sense, he is the god of grapes, wine, and intoxication after all. Grapes of course are a purple fruit so it makes sense that and you could in some ways consider being drunk a 'corruption' of the mind or at the very least of your normal state of function. So I think it still checks out. And for the darkness it could just be to add some interesting colour/shading to the black object to make it more interesting to look at? Kinda like he mentioned in the video with old disney and stuff, even though it doesn't check out as much here.
I think the fact that instead of saying "Jesus Christ" or "omg" Hades and other underworld beings say "blood and darkness" means that what human perceives as corruption, mysterious, powerful dark magic etc. are beneficial and helpful for these deities. And the fact that Zagreus has never seen the sun and finds it too bright shows again that their perception of what's natural is different than human
That is an interesting narrative. I’ve never thought about such connotation, since purple became my favourite color. It is the paradoxical nature of this color that those seemingly oposing forces combine and together form something more vibrant. Ultra violet is also the color of hidden meaning, exclusive knowledge, sympathetic ink and plenty of other things.
On the color pallet it is the most energized, and I also like that energy. 💜💜💜
>”The spreading threat of corruption”
>doesn’t once mention the spreading purple Corruption biome from Terraria
Razbuten: The Color of Corruption
me, a brazilian: green yellow and blue
SO a really interesting thing that I found today when I googled the title is that there is actually an organization called Colour Of Corruption that adds a plugin to your browser that highlights the names of corrupt Brazilian politicians on any website that their names show up on. I'll give you one guess as to what color it uses to highlight those names.
@@razbuten Holy shit. Chills
@@razbuten that's really intriguing...
fun fact: my favorite colour is purple... probably because of the purple colours used in Minecraft, and throughout other videogames...
great video btw :)
(that musical cue when you said the title of the video in the video was awesome)
@@razbuten god, i did not knew this, i'm going to check it out tks.
@@razbuten does not work anymore, with was a project made to cannes, something like this.
Awards and stuff
Razbuten: Purple is the color of corruption.
The orange infection in Hollow Knight: Im about to end this man's whole career.
Other colors can be used for it. It's just a common color for associating things with corruptions.
so I pretty much had to make the choice of whether I wanted this to be a 10 minute video or a 30 minute video, and I went with 10 as I was more interested in moving on to other projects BUT when I was getting research, I had a whole sections of notes on yellow/orange as complement colors to purple. The shit goes deep my friend.
@@razbuten I would love for you to go full hog on just that.
Also, The purple- orange thing is interesting when you look at if from starcraft/Kerrigan- With orange, the corruption is malevolent/unwilling/hesitant, but when Kerrigan willingly becomes the queen of blades again in heart of the Swarm, she becomes purple.
I remember a video about hollow knight color palet, orange was the oposite to the base color of hollow knight , for bugs darkness is safe , light means death , so theiy inverse concepts , i think is a orange sunlight because the base of most of hollownest is blue with back .
@@razbuten Ok but now you're mixing metaphors. Shit is brown. PICK A COLOR RAZ!
I was JUST thinking about this the other day, and a ton of the same examples as you, even. I love this video.
Razbuten: purple is the colour of corruption
Roman Emperors: shhh you’re too loud
*Cries in Eastern Roman Empire*
We’re they ALL corruptz
So we’re just gonna ignore Terraria, which has a biome called the Corruption, which is literally all purple?
Nope
And spreads and corrupts your world if left unchecked?
*SEE PINNED COMMENT*
It's themed around death and decay so
or what about the literal zombie spawning evil cube in fortnite
"Purple is the color of corruption*
*Purple Guy Intensifies*
Ah! Thats where Scott got it
The man behind the slaughter
The man behind the slaughter
Is there any news on the next FnaF game ?
Or did Scott abandoned the series ?
@@n124ajdx there's Security Breach (FNaF 10 I think) coming out 2021 but I'm not sure, it could delay
What, thought for sure when this popped up in recommended it was new, never seen it anyway. First couple minutes was deserving of a like on it's own merits just because of the vibe and editing of it.
Title: "The Color of Corruption"
Me: Oh he's gonna talk about Terraria
*proceeds to ignore Terraria entirely*
BlameTheLag Heresy
Also expecting that
Not even a 2 second remark about it being the purple cancer trying to eat your entire world
He talks about how purple is the colour of corruption without mentioning the entirely purple biome in terraria that is canonically a disease called the corruption
I made a list of all the games shown in this video along with their respective time stamps.
0:00 Ori and the Will of Whisps
0:08 Doom 2016
0:13 Yoku’s island express
0:16 A Plague Tale: Innocence
0:23 Resident evil 7
0:31 Tomb raider
0:35 Dark Souls 3
0:38 Shovel Knight
0:40 Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
0:44 Fortnite
0:45 Zelda Breath of the Wild
0:48 Ape Out
0:54 Skyrim
0:55 Animal Crossing New Horizon
0:58 A Plague Tale: Innocence
1:02 Diablo 3
1:04 Sea of Thieves
1:07 Animal Crossing New horizon
1:09 Bioshock
1:11 RIME
1:15 A Plague Tale: Innocence
1:18 Resident Evil 7
1:25 Zelda Breath of the Wild
1:32 Life is Strange: Before the Storm
1:36 Edith Finch
1:47 Mario Odyssey
1:51 Fire Emblem: Three Houses
1:53 StarCraft 2
1:57 Hob
2:05 World of Warcraft
2:27 Furi
2:34 Zelda Breath of the Wild
2:39 Ori and the Will of the Whisp
2:43 Animal Crossing New Horizon
2:48 StarCraft 2
2:53 Hob
2:57 Overwatch Cinematic
3:00 Pokemon Stadium
3:04 Dark Souls
3:07 Afterparty
3:11 Dark souls
3:19 Celeste
3:23 Mario Tennis Aces
3:25 Zelda a Link Between Worlds
3:28 Pillars of Eternity
3:32 The Sexy Brutale
3:34 World of Warcraft
3:36 Minecraft
3:39 Afterparty
3:52 Zelda Link's Awakening
3:58 Diablo 3
4:03 The Gardens Between
4:08 Ape Out
4:12 Dark Souls
4:14 Armello
4:50 StarCraft 2
4:55 Zelda Breath of the Wild
5:00 Day if the Tentacle
5:04 Child of Light
5:11 Zelda Minish Cap
5:15 Hob
5:23 The Gardens Between
5:29 A Plague Tale: Innocence
5:32 Mario Odyssey
5:33 Journey
5:37 Doom 2016
5:50 Ori and the Will of Whisps
5:53 Dark Souls
5:58 Super Mario Bros. : The Lost Levels
6:14 Ori and the Will of Whisps
6:18 The Gardens Between
6:22 A Plague Tale: Innocence
6:26 Resident Evil 7
6:34 Ori and the Will of Whisps
6:38 The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening
6:51 Child of Light
7:00 Shovel Knight
7:04 Mordhau
7:07 Zelda Breath of the Wild
7:11 Overwatch Cinematic
7:14 Armello
7:21 Shovel Knight
7:25 StarCraft 2
7:27 Dark Souls
7:30 Ori and the Will of Whisps
7:35 Hob
7:37 Armello
7:39 Shovel Knight
7:45 Mario Odyssey
7:50 Celeste
7:55 Afterparty
8:05 Ori and the Will of Whisps
8:07 HearthStone
8:10 Zelda Breath of the Wild
8:12 World of Warcraft
8:15 Ori and the Will of Whisps
Is Pokémon stadium.
You are the real MVP!
The clip at 5:00 is from day of the tentacle
Dex tmo thank you! If anyone else knows any of the unknowns please reply to me!
I'm pretty sure it's "DOOM (2016)". And that's probably the footage of his wife playing
Thank you for the list, btw =)
To date, this is my favorite intro to any youtube video. Everything about it is just so... perfect. Well done.
Purple is also a color associated with poison, death, and evil in Japan, much like how we associate some shades of green with poison (chlorine gas), radiation (uranium glow), and disease (vomit and rotting flesh).
This is a major reason for why many Japanese media tend to use purple as a visual shorthand for evil or poison. Over time, this shorthand spread (heh) to the rest of the world. In the original StarCraft, for example, purple was not the defining color of the Zerg, it was fleshier, with toxic greens and bloody reds.
To add to the "blue is magic" bit, blue is also a common color of lightning, and is on the more energetic end of visible spectrum, giving it that association with raw power.
Ironic considering most plants can grow very well with only red and blue light wavelengths so vertical farming uses purple light.
I always suspected that it was a Japanese cultural thing from back in the megaman Battle Network days.
Purple seemed so distinctive whenever darkness was portrayed, much more so than blacks and reds.
PURPLE HAZE JOJO TIME
I was waiting for him to mention that. The video still holds up but he just seems to be focusing on the west
@@ChonkedCat
STAR PLATINUM.