OUR BIGGEST UPDATE YET!! Get the full rundown: store.steampowered.com/news/app/393...

Holy crap, i finished my book. Like, it's written. Still lots of editing to go, but it feels like a huge milestone. Thanks to all the readers, contributors, and everyone who's helped in anyway. Watch this space 👀

I do not agree with the school of game design thought that the first two hours of an open world game should be a boring slog of backstory where you have to play as an injured/child version of your character.

Come watch me bully @abubakarsalim.bsky.social in FixForce at 3 UK GMT with Two Angry Gamers TV. x.com/Abzybabzy/st...

We sent our Fixers out to fix and fix they did! 🤖🔧 store.steampowered.com/news/app/393...

We're going live now! m.twitch.tv/surgentstudi...

I feel like this sums up the chaos of our game (and teams) 😶‍🌫️

The books progressing well! Let me just check how my target of 55-65k words is going... 90k. shit. Gonna have to take some of these "very very very very"'s out.

The soft aaaAAAaaahh of @charliekinglake.bsky.social as he falls kills me everytime I see this

A moderately chaotic little team we have. Check out this clip from our FixForce stream the other day of us... er.. fixing stuff? well trying. 🤖 www.tiktok.com/@surgentstud... Sorry not sorry @surgentstudios.bsky.social for the excessive movie references

FixForce already has a good bunch of varied accessibility settings you can find on the community hub for the game. We're in early access and actively updating the game with new content & better #accessibility! There's a survey on the main menu for if you find any barriers to help us prioritize!

What a wonderful read. And the reviews we have so far for the game have been extremely positive. It’s strange… after every release, the hope is that we can keep building and bettering ourselves. Here’s to the next.

ICYMI: FixForce Early Access is HERE!! 🤖🔧

What you get right off the bat (before any updates): 🪩 62 unique props 🤠 32 cosmetics options 🕺 8 emotes 🤬 5 different enemy types 🗺️ 3 levels with plenty of randomisation 🔋 3 battery variants 🤖 Proximity chat with matching mouth animation #FixForce

We’re back online!! 🚀 FIXFORCE IS OUT NOW FOR $5.99!🚀 We've done regional pricing because we wanted to ensure that we were keeping things fair globally! Go and play and let us know what you think!!

Steam page fixed! AND THAT'S WHY THEY CALL US FIXFORCE 🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧

What an absolutely wonderful review, thank you Joshua - it was lovely playing together. At this point I've fully embraced my new title, Joe "No Fixers Left Behind" Kinglake! FixForce is now available in Early Access: store.steampowered.com/app/3933150/...

Come watch us play some FixForce! 🤖

TIL that @joekinglake.bsky.social is a gremlin player. No need to increase difficulty during a shift. Their sheer presence is the difficulty.

Every night in my dreams 😔 I see you 😔 I feel you 😔 #FixForce

this is why they don't allow jump pads in prison :/ #FixForce

I felt like a god making this shot - we didn't make the van though 🙈. #FixForce🤖

⬇️ SHOOTING A HEAD THROUGH A TELEPORTER IN FIXFORCE ⬇️

🔧🤖 FIXFORCE 🤖🔧 MAKE THE FIX AND DIE TRYING Surgent's newest game is coming to Early Access on 12 March! 🚀 Wishlist on Steam and Epic for updates!!

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...

Come hang out with me!

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/

Help me pay for lessons to manipulate my larynx to sound more femme 💖 gofund.me/447a7e06

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 🎉

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...

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 🍉🇵🇸

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 🍉🇵🇸

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.

www.laurasender.com/game 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

The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide Is OUT!! youtu.be/g7488to6Jpc?...

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.

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.

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".