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Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon

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Digital Play Journalist for Forbes, BBC, Guardian. Brings games to unusual spaces, festivals and cathedrals. Makes cool stuff: 📕https://mybook.to/whatwashidden 📘https://mybook.to/taminggaming 🎯http://www.ludocene.com 🔎http://www.familygamingdatabase.com

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Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Celebrate with us! Our biggest @officialpax.bsky.social Family Gaming Room:
🕹️ 100s PS5/Xbox/Switch games
♿ Accessible Tech from Respawn
🔥 Games from @wholesomegames.com
🎯 Parental controls and @esrb.org explainer sessions
✏️ So many Guestbook comments

www.familygamingdatabase.com/search/list/...

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 1h

I am hundreds, probably actually thousands, of hours into Slice & Dice and I am *still* encountering totally novel, exciting situations. For sure my all time fav turn-based roguelike.

(My strong rec on how to play: Cursed Hyper mode w/ 20% wild modifiers on)

tann.itch.io/slice-dice

Slice & Dice by tann

Roguelike dice tactics game

tann.itch.io

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Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 1h

Will give it a go. Trying to understand upgrades.

Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 1h

What device do you play on?

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2h

GOOD NEWS, I was on One Life Left this week, and now you can listen to it.

I blabbed some more about Earth Must Die.

One Life Left @onelifeleft.com · 2h

We took it beyond mere flirtation and went all the way with @danthat.bsky.social as this week's Super Special Guest on the show! You can listen to it NOW on your podcatcher of choice!!

Then write us a letter. Don't forget that bit!!!

hello.onelifeleft.com

#GameDev

One Left Left - Listen on Spotify - Linktree

View sevenoutoften’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

hello.onelifeleft.com

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Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 2h

Looking forward to playing The Drifter. www.familygamingdatabase.com/game/The+Dri...

The Drifter - Mac and PC - Kids Age Ratings - Family Gaming Database

The Drifter is a point-and-click thriller where a murdered drifter repeatedly awakens seconds before his death. Play involves exploring environments to...

www.familygamingdatabase.com

Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 6h

Such important game discovery work (as always) from @botherer.bsky.social. buried-treasure.org/2025/06/next...

Next Fest June 2025’s Buried Treasures – Buried Treasure

buried-treasure.org

Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 1d

Could you let me know whether everything has subtitles, or there are elements of spoken word without subtitles? I see on PlayStation store it states "The game includes subtitles for the main story and main characters only." But thought maybe you had subtitle everything?

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Nesstalgic | Cozy Games & Reviews ✨ @nesstalgic.posts.games · 2d

Everything I know about the rival events so far and some other shenanigans I've been getting into tonight🧵

Game: Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch 1+(🎮)

Gabriel outside of his cabin being pensive in the snow next to the lake

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3d

Ooooh! New game from Size Five!? This looks very neat indeed. (Also, can highly recommend their previous game, Lair of the Clockwork God)

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 4d

If you enjoy Size Five and want to see it survive what is a very iffy time for the Games Industry, please do three things with your Saturday:

✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE
✅ Buy a game on sale
✅ Share these links where you can

store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive

Earth Must Die on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

store.steampowered.com

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Player Research @playerresearch.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks @caniplaythat.com for sharing this update!

caniplaythat.com/2025/10/01/a...

Accessible Games Initiative shares tag usage guidance - Can I Play That?

The Accessible Games Initiative shared guidance on implementing the tags, and presented at GAconf about checking games against tag criteria.

caniplaythat.com

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Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 6d

Doing my yearly refresher of @ianhamilton.bsky.social's key text on accessibility. Always an important reminder for me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPeh...

Difficulty Vs Accessibility

YouTube video by IGDA GASIG

www.youtube.com

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Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 6d

Yes saw that big announce. But missed that it impacted Xbox tags like Large Subtitles that used to have a clause that they needed to be able to be 2x on size. Now doesn't have that higher bar it seems. Thanks for the input. Really useful.

Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks Ian. I also notice the Xbox tags have been adjusted. I wonder if that as announced or reported anywhere you spotted?

Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 6d

Let's chat.

Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 6d

Hey Accessi-friends has PlayStation published a full list and definitions of the Accessibility tags it uses on store pages like this? Googling hasn't helped me so far. (@ianhamilton.bsky.social @laurakbuzz.bsky.social @caniplaythat.com et al.)

store.playstation.com/en-gb/concep...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

BLAST YOUR WAY THROUGH AN INTERDIMENSIONAL ADVENTURE

store.playstation.com

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Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 6d

Thank is Mark.

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Paul // Lost Scot @lost.scot · 7d

This is one mostly for @geekdadgamer.bsky.social. An email I sent to a magazine website in 2009, suggesting (in my younger and more awkward way) that they needed to make something like Ludocene.

I won't ask for royalties though 😀

Hi there,

I got some free Amazon vouchers and went looking for some slightly older games to spend them on. What I noticed is that trying to find a list of decent games when you don't have a specific name in mind can be a bit of a nightmare. To this end it would be really useful if there was a filter to put over the reviews section. Arranging by genre would be a start, but even better would be an all-time top 10 (or even 20) per genre. So I can go "I want to try a JRPG, which So I can go would be my best bet?"
, do some filter magic and find a list of the best ones with links to the reviews.
I ended up using the Metacritic tables and the review links there, but since I've always found I agree with the reviews anyway it would
be nice to have it as a one-stop shop.

Just a thought :)

- Dajmin (aka Paul)

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Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 7d

Ha perfect! Well I hope Ludocene.com can grow to fill that gap! :)

Home - Ludocene Game Discovery

Game discovery from people you trust. Ludocene is a free game finder that uses human-researched data to match you with games you'll love.

Ludocene.com

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Graeme Borland @graebor.bsky.social · Feb 23

New jam game! 🌻👿 SLAUGHTERING CAN 👿🌻 Made in a weekend for #PEGJAM 2025. The theme was "An Unconventional Weapon", so I tried to make a watering can feel like a satisfying weapon. It's a small, loud, and silly little project. Try it here: graebor.itch.io/slaughtering...