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Freelance QA for Inkle Studios, Tributary Games, Chaos Cookie, or anyone else! Former Highways Clerk, Highway Inspector & Streetworks Supervisor. Accessibility ally. DMs not working for me! CIS he/him. ❤️ Archaeology & Greenock Morton FC. BLM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Steve Morton - 🔜 @AdvX Conf in November! @pvbuk.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello to all of my new followers and those who already follow me from the ‘other place’!
I’m a freelance, part time videogame QA, specialising in narrative adventures, but willing to test any genre!
I’m also an #accessibility advocate.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 @AdvX Conf in November! @pvbuk.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s a great example of why it's best to think about, implement and code in #accessibility to your game as soon as possible, rather than at beta or later.
#NoMansSky launched in 2016 with tiny UI & game text. 18 months ago (iirc) they added size adjustment. Unfortunately it breaks the game a bit:

Cropped screenshot showing accessibility settings, including HUD Scale (set at maximum 150%) and Enlarged UI Text (set at Enabled).

Screenshot showing a base building and editing view, with a fairly small UI menu near the top of the screen showing the various controls and button commands

Screenshot showing the same base building and editing view, but because the HUD and UI text is enlarged, the menu is now almost completely off screen at top-left, making it useless.

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Jole【Play the Valerie demo!】 @jole-says-hi.bsky.social · 23h

Automatic controller detection and button remapping, just by plugging it in, even mid-game 😎

This controller support stuff is hard to test as an indie dev, so we'll have to see how it goes when it's public.

Also I haven't got a DualShock to test yet...

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #ValerieGame

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 23h

"You are a transformative President" ~Mark Carney

-Frequently threatens to annex or invade Canada.
-Waging a war against his own people.
-Genocide of Palestinians.
-Killing Venezuelan citizens.
-Tariff wars and silencing free speech.
-Targeting LGBTQ+ people, minorities, and immigrants.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 8d

I’ve said this before but I want to print little cards with QR codes on that download 80 Days to your PC from our server, and sell them in Waterstones / Barnes & Noble

Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 8d

Seems to me that the fact that interested people can’t find games they find interesting and maybe don’t even know they exist is (a) obvs true so dunking on it is dumb and (b) a massive fucking problem for the artform that the corporate sector of the industry has no interest *at all* in solving

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Hannah Fallnanza 🍁🍄🎃 @edentiefling.bsky.social · 6d

30 Day Favorite Video Game Character Challenge

8/30

Moira from A Highland Song

Moira is a sassy, funny, brave and very determined young woman. She is on a journey to not only find her uncle but also herself. She travels through miles of dangerous wilderness but doesn't miss a beat.

Image of the character Moira from the indie game A Highland Song. She is a teenager girl with light skin, brown eyes and long brown hair tied up in a high ponytail. She is wearing a yellow windbreaker, brown leggings with a brown skirt over the top of them and brown hiking boots. She has a red backpack on her back and she is running across the ground in the Scottish Highlands.

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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 7d

Heaven’s Vault also involves uncovering the mysteries of a lost civilization, but is a language deciphering game with a rich story and intricate worldbuilding.
thinkygames.com/game...
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Heaven's Vault · Thinky Games

Decipher an ancient language to discover the fate of a lost civilization.

thinkygames.com

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 2d

Talking publicly about game cities, @inkle.co's ink, and interactive text is a temptation I can rarely resist.

D6 Learning @d6learning.bsky.social · 2d

Find out *everything* about our forthcoming "Build An Interactive City In Text using ink" #gamedev & #worldbuilding course, in our live course presentation and intro to textual cities event!

🎯 22 October, 17:00 CET

🎫 Reserve your free ticket ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/build-an-i...

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inkle @inkle.co · 1d

There's a really good curation of 2025 games up on the Ars Festival page on Steam right now.

Some discounts, but mostly just a *great* selection!

Ars Independent Festival 2025

Ars Independent Festival is an annual cultural event held in Katowice, celebrating independent video games and more.

store.steampowered.com

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Mcoorlim @mcoorlim.com · Aug 15

Hire me for:

Narrative design
Game Writing
Localization
Audiodrama scripts
Developmental Editing
Consulting
Research
VA casting/direction
Weird little spreadsheets
Retrogaming Reviews
Podcast Hosting
Godot Tutorial Writing
Showrunning
Ephemera
Narrative Analysis

Anything really, I need work

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 1d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

😬

Guardian - Concern over cross-sex hormones available online for £11 a month

Guardian - Apology for student therapist (James Esses) expelled for his gender views

Guardian 'On shaky foundations' How good is evidence for treatment (trans kids)

Guardian - No single explanation - Why are so many girls questioning their gender?

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AdventureX @adventurex.bsky.social · 1d

Updates!

1. Broken Sword 2 - Reforged will be at #AdvX25, rounding out our lineup of 34 games! 🎉 🕹️

2. @burgerbecky.bsky.social unfortunately can't make it due to health issues 😔 (GoFundMe: gofund.me/f331da613)

3. 🎤 New speaker: @antonyjohnston.bsky.social

More details: mailchi.mp/9c04d915f12f...

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 1d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 1d

Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year.

Headline:
Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 1d

A gamechanger

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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The Daily Tech Feed @thedailytechfeed.com · 1d

Unity vulnerability CVE-2025-59489 exposes games to code execution risks. Microsoft and Steam implement protective measures. Developers urged to update and secure applications. #Unity #CyberSecurity #GameDev Link: thedailytechfeed.com/unity-vulner...

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 Sinister stuff. Jenrick, a Tory leadership candidate, says he didn’t see a White face in an area, & that it looked like a slum. This is a v old racist dog-whistle. Then when challenged on it, he accuses journos of fomenting terrorism. He’s clearly in fascist double-speak mode [1]

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Steve Morton - 🔜 @AdvX Conf in November! @pvbuk.bsky.social · 2d

Getting #Goldeneye game vibes. 😋

Jesper Tingvall @jespertingvall.bsky.social · 2d

LOD5
#gamedev

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 2d

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

bluesky post from
@knilirabaj.bsky.social that says

It's pretty cool you're using that alt text accessibility feature. It's not cool that you're not really describing the image though. Nice and simple is a good start. Descriptive and accurate is the way to go. You'll get the hang of it. Try pretending you're describing the picture over the phone.

July 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

"Few careers let you hold pieces of the past in your hands while making it matter today."

Well earned, huge congrats to Brenna - and very much looking ahead to great new research! 👏

Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick

University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 2d

strange how vocal critics of the thin skinned and bumbling developers who've been having a rolling meltdown this weekend keep getting banned

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

now @ladyjimrockford.bsky.social is banned? not sure what I’m supposed to get from this place when they keep banning my fucking friends.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 2d

NEW Karnak, at the ancient #Egyptian capital of Thebes, is one of the world's largest temple complexes. The first geoarchaeological research there suggests the complex may have been constructed to recall the 'primeval mound' of Egyptian creation myths.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Four researchers stood with a drill extracting a sediment core. In the background stand the remains of an ancient Egyptian temple with large obelisks reaching upwards.

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Carla Francome @carlafrancome.bsky.social · 3d

Update on this BTW - LNER are trialling a system for 2 years where they don’t do returns - it’s why my boss said I need to get 2 singles. Well done guys, slow hand clap. So on top of this, apparently you can’t even buy a return!

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Carla Francome @carlafrancome.bsky.social · 3d

I can confirm once again that it would probably be easier to have a conversation with a sheep in Latin than buy the correct train ticket for a journey in the UK. 🐑

Today I’m travelling to Leeds for work, and given my past troubles in this area, my boss, the ticket guru, … 1/10

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