@nerdfarters.bsky.social Day 1: Don’t pick up your pencil! Pizza John from memmies. My memmies is not great….

#NerdfArters Day 1: Pizza John but don’t lift your pencil

A friendly reminder for fellow NerdfArters to spend some time on some wonderful Alt Text for your creations! Being inclusive and accessible with our alt-text-using buddies is super hip and ALL the coolest kids are doing it. #AltText

#Nerdfarters Day 1 - Pizza John don't lift your pencil. Starting off with a collaborative effort from this evenings pub quiz team (aptly named Honk and Bonk). None of them are Nerdfighters. ALL of them however, were committed to the bit. We came 4th out of 7. Not our best show. #DFTBA #Pizzamas

The fourth annual NerdfArters challenge is upon us! Join us for 31 days of silly Nerdfighter reference prompts. All artists welcome; doodlers, photographers, lego artists. Remember, YOU ARE AN ARTIST. Don’t forget to share your art with us by using the hashtag #Nerdfarters DFTBA!

*eeks excitedly*

This goes HARD.

Currently writing an accessibility presentation and tried categorising a bunch of features into "needs" verticals. Quickly realised none of them fit nicely into a single category, the whole structure has collapsed, and I've rewritten the slide simply as "Everything Is Accessibility"

Taking a small breather this afternoon for some musicking. Today's recipe needs 5/4 chonk, 4 part harmonies and some sus(pended) chords sprinkled on top. #Music #MathRock #AudioRecording #Cubase

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Go to pizzamas.com to get the most unhinged products on the internet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=odsG...

🌙 'Twas the night before Pizzamas... Are there visions of pepperonis dancing in your head? 😴 Because it's the NIGHT BEFORE PIZZAMAS

Some potential accessibility reflections: -One Handed Mode: auto pumping, semi on rails lines to complete -Game speed Adjustment: hard on a live server, but altering game speed might allow some players the same finesse of control as playing at the baseline speed 🧵1 of 2 #Skate #Accessibility

Skate. is a wonderfully silly little game. Hoping more accessibility features come later down the line as they're a little thin on the ground currently, mind. #Skate

Told this dude at the garden centre a real rib tickler of a joke.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. The band Biffy Clyro 2. Trackmania or Skyrim 3. Nerdfighteria lore #BiffyClyro #Trackmania #Skyrim #Nerdfighteria

I get too precious over making 'perfect' music sometimes, so here is a video of me playing songs with mistakes for the sake of documenting where my guitar playing is at! Song is 'Spinning Over the Island' - Funeral for a Friend #FFAF #FunerarForAFriend #GuitarCover www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4OU...

Though it's fantastic to see #Hades2 has finally released, it's unfortunate that I and many other gamers without sight will have to wait for #accessibility mods produced in the game's early days to be updated so that we can actually play the game at all without assistance or workarounds. #A11Y

Ah man, it's good to be back (in autumn).

Playing around at data visualisation in #Unity today Capture timestep, player position and landmark data in JSON format (for stats later!) Use a line renderer to show the relationship between player locations in relation to landmarks across the session #DataVisualization #Unity #GameDevelopment

Anyone else checked out Skate? Made the mistake of checking reviews first but like, the game plays fluidly but just something about the vibe/personality of the game doesn't feel right. Getting to the 'rose-tinted glasses' portion of my life, apparently...

New headshots for the new year! Would you believe this dude sat in his Chelsea Peers dog pajamas, ate a bag of gummy worms and coded a super cool accessibility tool in #UnityEngine for 6 hours today? Me neither.

We're officially back! New academic year is kicking off and campus is buzzing with pseudo-autumnal delight 🍂 Looking forward to a big year of audio accessibility, inclusive research and making a racket as often as possible. #PhD #UWEBristol #MusicTechnology #Aceessibility #InclusiveDesign

Finally unpacked my Pizzamas t-shirts and it's got me excited that we're not far from @nerdfarters.bsky.social in October!!! Determined to complete 100% this year using as many weird and wonderful ways as possible... #NerdfArters #Nerdfighter #DFTBA #Pizzamas #PizzaJohn

We recently moved house and now have a garden and this beautiful dude been sitting on our shed all evening! We think it's a Sparrowhawk but also are not bird experts... #Birds

Speaker announcement📢 The full lineup for GAConf USA 2025 is now online, including lots of previously unannounced talks - from FC26 to the Nhuad controller, from AbleToPlay to South of Midnight! gaconf.com/schedule Sept 29th - 30th, registration at gaconf.com #gamedev #indiedev

Live now, as DB and I start putting ourselves through even harder challenges in #horizonForbiddenWest, for trophies! Twitch and YouTube are SightlessKombat. #Accessibility #A11Y

Finally (mostly) moved in. Long overdue haircut acquired so I can now see through my glasses again! Also, if you haven't listened to #DeltaSleep already then you should; they're amazing.

Happy Deaf Awareness Month! 🧏‍♂️✨ You can appreciate me by sending Starbucks and gluten free Oreos 🤭😆

First bit of art up in the new place and it's the best thing I've ever created. #Art #SillyGeese

Rarely am I correct in trying to match characters in older TV shows to their newer roles, but I just got a 10/10 match for Tony Todd in Locus in Indiana Jones and a prisoner in Criminal Minds S1 E7 😅 Sometimes, the performance is just SO damn good. #TheGreatCircle

Just picked this up from a charity shop and as someone with MANY hours in the Borderlands franchise, this is kinda cool! #Borderlands2

Bursaries available for D/deaf or disabled people who would like to attend the DARCI Conference but are facing financial difficulties. Please share within your networks. It would be a shame for the bursaries to go unused forms.gle/65nzWy2QyGD5...

Though menu narration is a much needed improvement, I'm sad to say that #GearsOfWar Reloaded is not accessible without sighted assistance, much like previous iterations of the first game. Here's hoping E-Day improves on what Gears 5 achieved with navigation and aiming. #A11Y #Accessibility

New bursaries available to attend the Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries. The deadline for applications is Friday 29th August. Please share if you can! #disability #CreativeIndustries

I’m about to make a whole dang thread of game accessibility PhD research topics yall should really be picking for your thesis. Like actually helpful research that would probably land you a job post-grad. So many super neat things we need researched, but publishers ain’t got the resources or time 🥹

Adulted too close to the sun and bought a mattress with a good guarantee instead of buying Pokémon booster packs.

Moving house today! The exciting part is getting to set up our studio/gaming/office space. The worst part is my old flat is on the fourth floor with no lift... Strong boi autumn on the way 😅

I have hit that age in life where my brain says 'yeah you can lift that thing' and then your body says 'mate, why did you do lift that thing? Suffer pain for all eternity'. That age is 28. Don't move house, friends.

ICYMI: I've been invited by the wonderful team at Sound Without Sight to present on #accessibility and audio innovations in gaming over the past few years! Interested? More info and registration here! soundwithoutsight.org/news/next-me...

Today my mum dropped a biscuit in her tea and this was our pug Bertie's reaction...

“You are acting weird.” First of all, I’m not acting.

HELLOOOOO I have a huge favour to ask of people, I know a lot of my followers work for games companies or in the games industry! We’re fundraising for my son’s cricket team via a raffle and if anyone is able to donate anything that would be amazing! My DMs are open ❤️💛🖤

Spent the weekend celebrating Meg's Dad's wedding! Very warm, mildly hungover, but a 12/10 time was had.

Increase a band (based on my last list) Spiffy Clyro THE Day To Remember Par-a bit-more ALRIGHT! Stripes

Slightly diminish a band: Iffy Clyro, A Day to Think About Occasionally, Paraless, Alright Stripes

Just putting out a reminder that if anyone wants to talk about #videogame #accessibility as a gamer without sight (including for podcasts, videos, streams etc) I'd be more than happy to see what we can collaborate on! Email in bio. #A11Y

Hey friends! I haven't really made videos before, but we're trying it out because documenting your progress is cool! I've been diving into some of my old code projects recently and thought I'd share the journey with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Th... #p5js #tonejs #Coding #AudioProgramming

I am very excited as I just found the .exe of the first ever game I made during my Masters. An music API-driven auto battle of the bands over a pit of lava. Desperately trying to find the source project so I can make it work again... #GameDev

My bean Sebastian now has a cute lil greenhouse window. Me and Meg have never been so focused lol. @hankgreen.bsky.social thank you for assisting in the 'doing' part of my PhD. Back to making some games... #FocusFriend

I have been cooking up a storm in #Unity recently. But last night, while adding a feature late at night and kinda tired, I needed some test items with fun names...