It's a new year and you know what that means: it's time to replace all the houseplants you forgot to water in 2025!! 🪴

And a happy new year, ya filthy animals

So anyway I saw three brand new birds today including this rare hooded merganser. Successful 2025 imo

Among volatile volcanoes and searing seas, fierce Ancient foes are reborn, ready to spread dread once more! In their grasp they hold keys leading to vast treasures, but perhaps something worse still... Dare you face them in Season 18: Return to the Devil's Roar!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN6N...

Sunday morning pork run

2025 Video Game Accessibility Recap - Access-Ability In this 45 minute video, I recap EVERY bit of video game accessibility news from 2025. This video was a mammoth project, I hope folks check it out. Text: access-ability.uk/2025/12/05/2... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO76...

It’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities — and once again I’m shouting about games accessibility from the rooftops.

The talk videos from our event - @ga11ygathering.bsky.social - are up! Huge thanks to the wonderful speakers, sponsors, and volunteers who made it all possible 🖤

On my way to London to speak at Good Game Dev Fest ⭐️ If you’re coming u can catch my talk “Developing an Accessibility Mindset” in the first talk block at 5pm

Voting closes tonight, last chance to decide the winners of the GAConf accessibility awards! Voting form and finalists' info here - www.gaconf.com/gaconf-award... #gamedev #indiedev #accessibility

"You seem happier" Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.

Did you know @limitbreak.co.uk has impacted over 5000 industry professionals, across literally hundreds of games businesses? To continue to support the industry we need the support of the industry, so maybe you can help? Please check out our sponsorship deck or share this post 👇

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You can't convince me this isn't a Looney Tunes trap

New dwarf fort patch is fixing the important things.

Every update to @seaofthieves.com is a chance to include more pirates! Wonderful to be alongside other phenomenal improvements - the stronger the competition, the more all players can enjoy themselves. Looking forwards to the results! #accessibility

Our finalists for Most Dedicated Studio are: Aggro Crab iD Software Rare Massive Entertainment Klemens Strasser Public vote now open at gaconf.com/gaconf-awards-2025/

This year I helped with nominee curation for The Indie Game Awards @indiegameawards.gg . I'll also be presenting the winner for the "Achievement in Accessibility" award during the awards show on the night.

❓Have accessibility feedback about Netflix Games? Submit your thoughts now via this Feedback Form! It's the only way I can guarantee I see it. ❤️ Thanks! netflix.jotform.com/203105245680...

If your website doesn't work with screen readers, you're losing ~2-5% of potential users. Following basic accessibility standards like WCAG and WAI-ARIA isn't just a good helpful thing to do, it's also a phenomenal return on investment

Hey #gamedev #indiedev, pretty cool to see all these accessibility awards flying around eh? Would be handy if someone made a list of what and when they all are and when to submit, right? 🫡 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Here are the nominees for Innovation in Accessibility at #TheGameAwards: - Assassin’s Creed Shadows - Atomfall - Doom: The Dark Ages - EA Sports FC 26 - South of Midnight Link to vote: bit.ly/tgavote

Awards season is the best time of the year. So much blood sweat and tears goes on behind the scenes from so many people to make accessibility a reality, it always makes me so happy to see people publicly recognised for it.

Congratulations to the nominees for the Innovation in Accessibility Award at this years @thegameawards.com!

Love this - in particular suggesting your <Icon> component requires a title prop. Build best practice and accessibility into your design system layer to make it best by default!

An absolute tragic loss in the disability community. Alice was one of the strongest voices we've had, and this world will not be the same without her guidance, especially during these times.

I absolutely ✨ adore ✨ "an unplayable game?!" In just a few minutes it brilliantly gets the across the frustration of trying to play a game with one too many barriers for you, and how adding accessibility does *not* necessarily mean taking away challenge badgameszip.itch.io/an-unplayabl...

Europa Universalis 5 has a brilliant feature that I've not yet seen them talk about as cognitive #accessibility, though it definitely is. ⚙️ Automation. EU5 is desperately deep and complex, but lets you granularly automate most aspects of the game. This lets you bring in complexity on *your* terms 🧵

Absolutely wild to me that in the UK, the general discussion around masks was (and still is?) "What are the rules? Am I being forced to?" instead of "How can ensure others stay safe?" It's phenomenal how much damage one sick person in public can do - stay at home when ill folks!

3/3 This cold medicine ad & others like it are especially sinister as a razorblade throat is a key symptom of current Covid variants for which many now have no updated booster. You don't endanger others. You sit this one out. At home.

Preparing to play Europa Universalis 5 by watching a 7 hour tutorial video, then opening the game, cycling through the map modes, hitting "automate" on all areas, then giving up and complaining that I don't understand any of it

Many Cats are amazing and it's so great to see them getting well deserved recognition. If you want to make sure your game can be played by as many people as possible, hit them up!

teeny tiny kitten concrete paws

The New York Times opinion page isn't holding anything back now smh.

Everything about making video games is harder than you think.

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Share your thoughts on Sea of Thieves! Pirates who have sailed recently and receive emails from us should have seen a fresh survey drift into their inbox last week. Your feedback helps us fine-tune future approaches, so the more responses the better - be sure to have your say!

I just wish there was a videogame where I could go in guns blazing, OR take the stealthy approach...

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

i'll go even further and say that i don't care how much money you have, signing up should be enough. you make n+1 times poverty instead of n? cool, take it anyway. you're jeff bezos? hey man, no judgment (on this anyway), you get snap funds. means testing is a plague and everyone should have food.

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

You left. Now they're dead. Immersive sim narrative first person cleaner AMBROSIA SKY is coming out NEXT WEEK! "beautiful, intimate, and deeply affecting" - @ign.com "equal parts System Shock and Powerwash Simulator" - @pcgamer.com Steam & Epic, November 10, 9am EST. Links below!

oh hell yeah

Seeing someone's process, inspiration & journey is a real treat. Perfect illustration of how people working in accessibility are always learning from each other and celebrating each other's successes!  www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2BX... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4C... www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ub...

Someone invented the timezone UTC+12:45 in Aotearoa New Zealand's Chatham Islands specifically to ruin my day as a software developer

Last week, @xanderashwell.bsky.social and I had the great privilege of sharing @seaofthieves.com's accessibility journey with all the fine folks at the European Accessibility Summit in Brussels, run by @microsoft.com and @myedf.bsky.social! We learned so much from real experts there - 1/3

✨️Get ready for @sonicconuk.com ! Heres what ill be offering = PLUS = some suprise figures and goodies too, one ill never make again!! See you there at table D1! ✨️🐰

My stage name is DJ Accessibilibeats

In fact, we can often learn from disabled folks by understanding how they are engaging with a product. It’s one of the best ways to improve the design and make it more better for everyone. Maybe I am biased; I’m just surprised folks aren’t mentioning accessibility when this meme comes up. /rant 😆😄♥️