Joe Kinglake

UbiChroma, a real-time color blind simulator released by Ubisoft - Can I Play That? Ubisoft released a color blind simulation tool, UbiChroma, making it possible to test for color blind accessibility issues in real-time.

Ubisoft released a color blind simulation tool today, called UbiChroma.

The free and open source tool enables developers to test for color blind accessibility issues in real-time. Fitting existing workflows, it can help catch color blind issues early.

caniplaythat.com/2025/04/14/u...

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GAconf Awards 2024 Playlist housing streams for audio description, ASL, and BSL

Don't miss the GAconf Awards today! They premiere 3 hours after this post goes out, you can watch them on the IGDA GASIG YouTube channel, including versions with Audio Descriptions, ASL and BSL. They will also be co-streamed by IGN.

Good luck to all the nominees, who are all winners in our book!

Calling UK #gamedev, the MCV/Develop awards have an accessibility category and are open for nominations now - mcvdevelopawards.com/nominate/

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A shortlist of the nominees for Accessibility.

A shortlist of the nominees for Best Soundtrack.

A shortlist of the nominees for Best UK Indie

In very cool news, Mythwrecked had been nominated for...

🔸Award for Accessibility
🔸Best Soundtrack
🔸Best UK Indie

...at the @debugmag.com 2025 Indie Game Awards 🎉

Aha what a fantastic film, I've found it's so difficult to recommend without giving anything away and a solid "JUST TRUST ME".

I recommended it once and had the friend bounce off it 10 mins in, only to come back absolutely loving it after I promised them it was worth it. Loved this film so much.

Oh wow, this looks amazing. Im something of a game jam fanatic myself 👀 I'm not sure i'll be able to make time to enter with getting stuck into the book, but i will DEFINITELY be keeping an eye on this for research!

Games for Blind Gamers 4 A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome, Blind and Sighted Game Developers! Welcome to the fourth annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to make game...

Also if you love Game Jams AND game accessibility, do I have a game jam for you to check out! Also the discord has some of the folks I mentioned who are award winners and vets of video game accessibility.

itch.io/jam/games-fo...

A good well needed break i think, it was a shame to follow the nice break with covid but i definitely feel a lot better now 😅 That's amazing, thank you so much :-)

Thank you so much, this is really kind of you - i've added the screengrab to my references for now and will definietly be in touch :-)

This is great and really useful! At the moment im mostly gathering sources of those who might be interested, i'll make a note to reach out later this year to have a chat if you're interested. Thanks for reaching out :)

Indie accessibility - YouTube GAconf talks from indie developers

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Amazing, thank you! Avid attendee of the GAConf, but i hadn't seen the playlist and this is incredibly useful both for material and a reminder of who to reach out to. Thanks Ian!

(Apologies for the slow reply, i took a last minute digital detox over xmas!)

Thank you so much for the link, i'll definitely be reaching directly out to some devs who feature here and have built other accessibility features.

(Apologies for the slow reply, i took a last minute digital detox over xmas!)

I'm also interested if it's not a feature, but a philosophy that has been clearly applied as a design fundamental.

The content I'm looking for is permission to screenshot, acknowledge and reference your features (with full title credits & thanks in the book).

The goal of the book is to be both a developer handbook and to provide a strong business case for devs to convince/approve accessibility features & cost.

Heya folks, do I have any mutual indie developers who have included #accessibility features in their released games they would be interested in letting me reference in my book on building better accessible games?

Please take the time to listen Rami's this appeal, read the campaign @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social has put together and support the project how you can.

The industry has been complicit in the dehumanisation & genocide of the Palestinian people, now is the time we can speak up and give our support 🍉🇵🇸

Oh wow I had no idea! That's frustratingly misleading!

Designing for colourblindness is, as you say, a practical decision making process that avoids the use of colour as the singular method for communicating information.

And even the filters don't give you the whole picture and shouldn't be relied on exclusively.

Great point on the use of the Unreal filters, they're simply for the simulation OF colourblindness not a fix-all filter. I've seen this misunderstood on the development shop floor several times.

I have found the use of these filters to be an enlightening tool for teams, but they are easily misused.

Please take the time to listen Rami's this appeal, read the campaign @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social has put together and support the project how you can.

The industry has been complicit in the dehumanisation & genocide of the Palestinian people, now is the time we can speak up and give our support 🍉🇵🇸

YouTube video by Rami Ismail An appeal for Dreams on a Pillow

I want to make a personal appeal for the beautiful new game of Palestinian gamedev @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social. As nobody will fund a game about the 1948 Nakba, Rasheed is crowdfunding via launchgood.com/1948. I've been doing production advice on the game pro bono, and it deserves to exist.

In case you missed this yesterday - this project is incredibly important and dear to me. The developer, @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social, is potentially in danger for insisting on making this game, but he refuses to back down because backing down would mean not telling this story.

The most common & harmful #gamedev misconception about accessibility is that accessibility = feature development, therefore accessibility = cost that must be weighed up.

If there was one single thing that I could delete from the collective consciousness it would be that.

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Hi Bluesky! I have finished my article on women in videogames and I’d like to share it with you all. It’s been a real labor of love for me to write this, so I hope you enjoy it and find it useful.

#videogames #women #gamergirls #gaming #gamedev #art #ux #uxresearch

By the way I read your last article and it was a great guide and very well sourced with insightful personal anecdote that really well described the problem and some practical solutions. Great article, thank you for sharing 🙏🏼

Thank you for the support, unfortunately it's probably about a year away still and is quite early in development. I will need a fair bit of time to get distribution rights for things like screenshots etc.

That sounds super interesting to study! Thank you for the support ☺️