[MyMeta] Revisit color-determining UI

[peth-yursick]

The personality color UI was kind of built as a bonus feature by @dysbulic while adding the color-choosing step in the profile creation.

As such, it was never designed by a designer & its hosted separately.

There are two things that would need to be done:

1. A UI designer to take a pass on it, make it look nicer & more aligned with the rest of the platform
2. Someone to build it directly into MyMeta (@dysbulic?)

Far from priorities but might be a good idea to tackle before we start promoting profile-creation to the public..

[dysbulic]

[B]uild it directly into MyMeta (@dysbulic?)

You had me host it outside of the MetaFam organization for fear of reprisals from Wizards of the Coast for having commercial interests.

Honestly, I think we were overcautious, & I could both incorporate it into MyMeta & use the Magic: The Gathering iconography (the icons are currently blurred out with "© Wizards" written over them).

Worst case scenario is we get a cease & desist & I have to switch them back. In looking at the number of fan sites using the icons though, I don't think that'll happen.

[vidvidvid]

@dysbulic could we ask our artists to make icons based on the MTG iconography and adapt it to MG?

[dysbulic]

[C]ould we ask our artists to make icons based on the MTG iconography and adapt it to MG?

We could ask. The issue is there are 32 different combinations where each has a specific attitude associated with it. Wizards of the Coast has developed a mythological world where various tribes & guilds embody these different ethoses in complex ways.

I used different names within MetaGame to avoid stepping on any legal toes, but I think the clarity of description suffers for it.

To do iconography well requires both an in-depth understanding of the thing being represented and an artist's eye. I don't know who we have that's enough into Magic: The Gathering to have solidly founded opinions on what these icons should be.

Again, we're not selling anything with this art on it. I think that's what Wizards is really trying to shut down when they say no commercial applications.

[peth-yursick]

The designer would probably be down to make 27 more over a period of time but I'm not sure its necessary - especially so since the profiles aren't even showing those combinations but the color composition itself.

Going back to the poll, we voted on descriptive words over the coloring system which might not have been the best idea but also the legality not the only reason it was chosen I think but also intuitiveness..

Imo we should just completely strip Magic associations via color-combination-clans as it essentially ties MetaGame's lore to Magic's, which is huge, complex & none of us understand it. Maybe we should just reference it somewhere or say its based/inspired by their system?

I'd just have the test that then gives the color combination & that's it. Later maybe write a unique description sentence for each combination but even that I'd say is unnecessary for the first version of building it directly into MyMeta 🤷‍♂️