Darren Strick

Jonathan Pie is my spirit animal 😂

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ChatGPT glitching, Twitter down, Cloudflare on fire. Humans forced to think for themselves until further notice. Use the time wisely 🧘‍♂️

I always spend 5-10-minutes speaking to participants when booking them in for a project. My last call lasted 27-minutes... 5 to rescreen and provide all relevant information, followed by 22 talking about our mutual love for Disney world and sharing tips! 😂

20 years in GUR recruitment has taught me that blind recruitment’s tough, but it’s the right way to do things. So watching competitors list all the games applicants must have played is both infuriating and deeply disappointing. Starting to lose the will 😔🤦🏻‍♂️

RI971: UK-Wide Digital Accessibility Research - £100

Our team are running user research concerning games accessibility. This is a paid research session open to UK residents. Please register your interest below if you are interested in taking part.

@researchi.bsky.social

www.researchi.co.uk/projects/RI9...

Important research opportunity for UK residents interested in games accessibility. Open to both industry professionals & members of the public.
💻 2-hour webcam meeting
💷 £100 same-day incentive payment.
Apply now or share with someone who may be interested
#A11y #Accessibility #GUR #MarketResearch

The Crowns engine houses perched dramatically on the cliffside at Botallack, West Cornwall, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean with rugged rocks and waves below.

Few places clear the cobwebs quite like the windswept trails of Botallack, on the rugged coast of West Cornwall 🌊 〓〓

Picture taken today of 30 St Mary Axe, aka The Gherkin

My new favourite pickle! 📸

Remote playtesting is fast and flexible, but clients often tell us the same thing: nothing beats the lab. Real-time interaction and spotting expressions you’d miss remotely bring a depth that’s hard to replicate.

#Playtesting #GameDev

A picture of me, smiling with my thumbs up, standing in the heart of Super Nintendo World at Epic Universe. Behind me towers a vibrant, blocky Mario-themed landscape, complete with Thwomps, Question Blocks, warp pipes and cartoonish trees

Super Mario World on the SNES was the first game I ever finished on my own, and it’s still one of my all-time favourites. Now I’m actually standing in the Mushroom Kingdom. Wahoo! 🍄⭐

In the foreground is a Nintendo Switch 2 with the Cyberpunk 2077 loading screen displayed. In the background is an open suitcase with clothes packed.

Suitcase packed ✅
Cyberpunk installed ✅
OOO on ✅
Time to make magical memories with my 3 Stricklings ✈️

Holding the Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day.

Work productivity levels rapidly plummeting! 😍
#NintendoSwitch2

Proud to have recruited users over a period of more than 2-years, across 16 rounds of in-lab testing. Well deserved Team asobi 👏

Order confirmation for Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World Bundle pre-order

Wahoo!

Main menu of Atomfall

I've always fancied a relaxing break in the Lake District 😬
#atomfall

Lenovo Legion Go, playing Lords of the Fallen, with a JBL Go 4 portable Bluetooth speaker rested in front of it.

I love my Lenovo Legion Go, I really do, but no lie, the audio output is pants...

I just took delivery of the JBL Go 4, and BOOM! I can finally hear! 🔊