John Dickens

This was probably the most infuriating and cringe-inducing thing I have listened to this year. The guy seems to have zero self-awareness.

Wow 🥹

"Will players buy it?"

"Do players have fun?"

Whilst the meme is obviously an exaggeration, it's annoying because the reason something becomes intuitive is because it has enough affordances and a universally understood design language that a user cannot feasibly interact with it incorrectly. And totally true about designing for accessibility!

I have a week and a bit to decide whether to return them or not... I feel like I might be adjusting somewhat to it but don't want to end up with a device that makes me ill every time I use them haha

Nope, doesn't seem to matter what mode is enabled or not...

As someone prone to motion sickness and nausea in video games and VR, I've come to not be surprised when I play something new and it triggers symptoms... but earphones?! Is it the pressure of the seal causing some weirdness in the inner ear?

Such is my deepness in the Apple ecosystem that, after accidentally putting my Sony earbuds in the laundry (sigh), I recently bought the new AirPod Pros.
My question to you, #accessibility hive mind, why are these AirPods making me nauseous? Never had this with noise cancelling earphones before.

Yes! Thanks Chris!

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

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Good morning Redmond. Time for some sweet sweet accessibility (with a bit of jet lag for extra spice) #GAConf

👋 I'm heading back across the pond to be at #GAConf once more in Redmond, WA later this month. I'm reserving a day free after the conference to catch up with familiar faces and meet new ones - hit me up if you're around and want to chat on the 31st 🙂

Miyoshi? Baradji? Nadé? None of the above? 😆

Do you think Trump would celebrate with the winning team if a Mexican team had won?

Me in running gear standing with two thumbs up and a medal around my neck in. I’m wearing a SpecialEffect running top.

Saucony London 10K ✅
@specialeffect.org.uk

This game rocked. And it took me until adulthood to realise it was made by Virgin despite the main character basically being the logo.

I think out of all the 'socials', LinkedIn's push notifications are A) the most invasive and B) hardest to tune to actually be notified exclusively about important things.

1 person going through redundancy is bad. 9,000 is just mismanagement - pure and simple. Heart goes out to all MS/AKB folks who, even if they kept their job, must be feeling pretty broken right now.

Tencent America US office. Prominently features QQ (our penguin mascot) with a Tencent surfboard.

Ferris wheel in Santa Monica with golden hour sunlight giving it a warm glow

Sunset on against palm trees on Venice Beach. The trees are silhouetted in front of a hill backdrop in the distance where the sun sets.

I promise I’ve been working and not just sitting on the beach the whole time I’ve been in LA.

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic I Just Wasn't Made For These Times

RIP to one of the greatest to ever do it: Brian Wilson

youtu.be/216YJKbber8?...

Sooooo proud of our team's work in supporting Funcom's vision for Arrakis 💙🪱

8 CRT TVs in sync in a dark room producing glitchy, grainy, distorted images

Close up of 2 CRT TVs with glitchy imagery, red, green and blue crystal-like clusters

The image shows a framed art work by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi called Vitrine: Deep Into the Night. It is an image that depicts a building like structure, overlayed by a sheet of textured glass that distorts the image which gives a distorted effect.

Truly brilliant exhibition at the Tate Modern - ‘Electric Dreams’. Digital art before it was digital, where artists pushed the boundaries of early computers and consumer tech to produce audio visual experiences that challenge how art is made and displayed. Right up my street.

Happy #GAAD today and forever

Boot screen for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 displayed on a large wall mountainedTV beside an Xbox One Series X; which is located near a Yamaha soundbar. Below sits a tv cabinet with vinyl records and bookshelf speakers.

My bank holiday weekend has involved a fair amount of chores but now I’m going to treat myself with a new adventure…

I would also put forward that seeing players slide about is evidence to suggest a fun and intuitive control scheme that allows player agency, but that's just an assumption :D

Seeing players slide around in a battle royale is a similar behaviour that might appear as an indicator of disengagement or boredom but be something else entirely. That's why it's always important to get feedback from players on these behaviours rather than simply report on an 'issue'!

It wasn't a reflection of his engagement or enjoyment of the game (he was actually having a good time). Instead he was allowing us to observe how these sort of games fit into his real-world (i.e. non lab) experience, which is something so valuable and so hard to get from this sort of testing.

Instead, something else was at play. The game (a survival game) had crafting timers, giving players the opportunity to do something else in the game whilst they waited. This player instead just wanted to read his book. He does this at home in similar games and wanted to do the same here.

Somewhat related story time... On day 3 of a week long play test, I noticed one of my participants brought a book into the lab. At one point he got it out of his jacket pocket and started reading it whilst 'playing'.
I went to ask him what was up, assuming he was getting bored and about to churn...