Joe Kinglake
@joekinglake.bsky.social
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Hi I'm Joe, a Design Director at Sumo Digital. I've worked as a designer on a bunch of games like Horizon: Zero Dawn, Hitman 2, Sack boy: A Big Adventure and more. I'm also currently writing a
#GameAccessibility
book under the working title "How to Build Accessible Games".
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Can I Play That?
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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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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.
https://caniplaythat.com/2025/04/14/ubichroma-a-real-time-color-blind-simulator-released-by-ubisoft/
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Tara Voelker
about 1 year ago
Come hang out with me!
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Can I Play That?
about 1 year ago
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!
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GAconf Awards 2024
Playlist housing streams for audio description, ASL, and BSL
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVEo4bPIUOslg0oDMkSEc54gkUvvAm7Gp
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Ian Hamilton
about 1 year ago
Calling UK
#gamedev
, the MCV/Develop awards have an accessibility category and are open for nominations now -
mcvdevelopawards.com/nominate/
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Nominate | MCV Awards
https://mcvdevelopawards.com/nominate/
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Robyn
about 1 year ago
Help me pay for lessons to manipulate my larynx to sound more femme ๐
gofund.me/447a7e06
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Donate to Help Robyn Fund Her Gender Affirming Surgeries, organized by Robyn Collis
Hello everyone! Iโm Robyn, a trans woman in the UK, and Iโm reaching oโฆ Robyn Collis needs your support for Help Robyn Fund Her Gender Affirming Surgeries
https://gofund.me/447a7e06
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou
about 1 year ago
In very cool news, Mythwrecked had been nominated for... ๐ธAward for Accessibility ๐ธBest Soundtrack ๐ธBest UK Indie ...at the
@debugmag.com
2025 Indie Game Awards ๐
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Ericbomb
about 1 year ago
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...
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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...
https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-4
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Indie accessibility - YouTube
GAconf talks from indie developers
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVEo4bPIUOsmq2kV0Wjay7A5yhvLfSpYh&si=TbzZKJZqXhmDDpLF
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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?
about 1 year ago
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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 ๐๐ต๐ธ
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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 ๐๐ต๐ธ
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about 1 year ago
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Rami Ismail (ุฑุงู ู)
about 1 year ago
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.
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An appeal for Dreams on a Pillow
YouTube video by Rami Ismail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuHSy2H1nAU
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Rami Ismail (ุฑุงู ู)
about 1 year ago
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.
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Ian Hamilton
about 1 year ago
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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Briรซr @The Blade & Briar
about 1 year ago
www.laurasender.com/game
Hi Bluesky! I have finished my article on women in videogames and Iโd like to share it with you all. Itโs 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
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Designing for Representation โ Laura Sender
https://www.laurasender.com/game
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Hippolyte ๐ช
about 1 year ago
The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide Is OUT!!
youtu.be/g7488to6Jpc?...
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The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide
YouTube video by Hippolyte ๐ช
https://youtu.be/g7488to6Jpc?si=EtJIKAejYI7jE6dX
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Luke the BunBun VTuber
about 1 year ago
Can we please agree that it is perfectly fine and encouraged for people to play games on any difficulty they feel comfortable with without feeling the need to judge or criticise them? Gosh, let people enjoy things.
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Bsky already seems to evoke a lot of those early Twitter gamedev community memories in the first day of being here. Glad to finally be off Twitter, I think it says worlds that people who cite it as a "free speech platform" really just are applauding their freedom to spout hate speech unmoderated.
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Hi I'm Joe, a Design Director at Sumo Digital. I've worked as a designer on a bunch of games like Horizon: Zero Dawn, Hitman 2, Sack boy: A Big Adventure and more. I'm also currently writing a
#GameAccessibility
book under the working title "How to Build Accessible Games".
about 1 year ago
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