Jess Watson

New Guide to design patterns that ensure #Disabled gamers can access & play your games (plus expands the way all players can experience your game). Via @AbleGamers [Gif alt text in next tweet] Link: accessible.games/accessible-pla… GDC Talk on it: gdcvault.com/play/1025719/A… #GameDev #a11y

Ever wondered what goes into creating a custom PC case? 🤔 Join us as we take you behind the scenes to explore the inspiration an design process of the Nekograms PC case in collaboration with PLE! 🐱💻 #Nekograms #PLE #CustomPC #BehindTheScenes #IndieDev ple.com.au/PoweringLocalG…

This week at GDC, Xbox publicly released the Gaming for Everyone Product Inclusion Framework. The framework is intended to help developers with guidelines to make more inclusive (that also includes accessible) products and games. caniplaythat.com/2024/03/22/gam…

A lot of game devs are dunking on this, but if you're not a game dev it's probably not actually obvious why. So I thought I'd take a moment to answer a little more thoughtfully in hopes of giving gamers a little more insight on what we do.

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Environmental Storytelling.

I recreated this handy animation by @ymrun_jp in @rive_app and converted the values to what is used in the Rive interpolation panel (x1,y1,x2,y2). Hope you find it useful! Original: twitter.com/ymrun_jp/statu… Rive Community: rive.app/community/5838…

@MHS_ECU @EdithCowanUni @BrennenMills1 @Sara_S_Hansen @ninjeska @Josh_M_Johnson1 Come and check out the poster @ACParamedicine conference and chat to Josh at the @EdithCowanUni booth!

➡️A project from the @EdithCowanUni Simulation & Immersive Digital Technology Group called IVADE (Immersive Violence & Aggression De-escalation Experience) was recently discussed on Channel 7 news. @BrennenMills1 @Sara_S_Hansen @ninjeska @Josh_M_Johnson1 youtu.be/kVYbZn9K-1k

Another win at the @inciteawards for the serious games & simulations team! ecu.edu.au/newsroom/artic… Proud of our team and what we've been able to achieve. Looking forward to showing off more of what we've been up to, on whatever social media platform the future holds for us~

If you're press or a content creator headed to #gamescom and want a chance to check out Go-Go Town!, we'd love to show it to you! (and we may have a few secret things we can show off 👀) Head over here to fill out this form & we'll be in touch: forms.gle/wa8vSeXgVcrNK4…

Nekograms+ is Coming Soon to @AppleArcade this August! Help these sleepy kitties in this adorable puzzle game! 🐱💤 Learn more: 🕹️ apple.co/-Nekograms

Thanks to @beetlefeet @fleffie @bisforbeing and Minh for your hard work on Nekograms+! Thanks to @AppleArcade for welcoming us! Thanks to @jamesonetwenty @ninjeska Poppy and everyone for your work on Nekograms! And a huge thanks to our Nekofans for your support! 🥰

Join IGEA as we launch Australia Plays, the latest in the Digital Australia research series. The author Dr Jeff Brand from @BondUniversity will present the findings. We will be coming to a state near you - capacity is limited so RSVP now: eventbrite.com/cc/australia-p…

Game Marketing Tools to make a game competition research a bit less of a pain in the ass. The🧵 Let's start with tools that are helping me find the perfect game competitors 👇 [1/7]

🎮🎉 Screenwest is pleased to announce that 13 Western Australian digital game projects have received funding through our new Digital Games Production Fund! ow.ly/xFtX50Ofmir

It's now official: Omi Oh My AI is receiving further funding from Screenwest, which will cover the development costs for Act 2 and Act 3. screenwest.com.au/news/latest-ne…

When possible, we also try to include these resources for games and companies in our Games Codex. It covers many of the games we have covered and includes relevant links to official sites, socials, and of course support and accessibility pages! caniplaythat.com/games/

You shipped your #indiegame and it didn't do as well as expected. Help others in this thread and explain a key lesson you learned. Dev, marketing, biz, etc. I'll go first. Don't switch engines. Ship what you can with what you have. 🗨️Reply 🔁Like / retweet 💖Follow #gameart #gamedesign #gamedev #gamedevs #gamedevelopment #gamedeveloper #indiedev #indiedevhour #indiedeveloper #IndieGameDev #indiegames #indiewatch #screenshot #solodev #ドット絵 #aseprite #asepriteart #madewithunity #pixelart #programming #unity #unity3d #unitygames #GameMaker #godotengine #madewithgodot #UnrealEngine #MadeWithUnreal #monogame

✊ solidarity My Aussie uni shed over 400 jobs, likely more with simultaneous restructures and "voluntary separation" processes. My department, arguably the best in the country for Mantle systems research went from 26 academics to 3, not including PDRA's. 1/ #BetterUnisNWA