Spain made me think Scopely.
A great team there if so!

Great talk, including showing the impact of research studies to help inspire and inform decisions throughout iterative development!

Anubis weighing a heart against a feather

Bast games

Amazon book options Paperback £7.98 Hardcover £1309

I’ll probably go for the paperback version…

A version of the coyote Meme. My neighbour told me the paintress keeps eating his expeditions, so i asked how many expeditioners he has and he said he just goes to Lumiere and gets a new expedition afterwards so i said it sounds like he's just feeing expeditions to the paintress and then his daughter started crying.

Finished Expedition 33, a while after everyone else.

Not normally my genre, but I was hooked by the mystery of the prologue, and couldn't put it down.

“Most hardest”… 🙄

New report claims Crimson Desert's development was plagued by "a hodgepodge of features crammed together" and leaders who "don't acknowledge anyone who doesn't share their exact mindset" Two Pearl Abyss developers have claimed Crimson Desert was developed in a troubled environment, characterised by an inv…

Games are complex systems, requiring multiple disciplines to go in the same direction often without a clear map of where we are going- it’s why team alignment is one of the most hardest parts of game development: www.eurogamer.net/new-report-c...

Rocky Space Friend The official LEGO Rocky minifig is adorable, but I wanted a slightly larger Eridean buddy of my own. This rocky space friend is ready to help with five articulated...

You could partner the official lego set with this custom build from @jordandevries.com rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-256...

A translation screen. I've written "i'm a games user researcher". It answers "I watch people play video games and write reports about why they're frustrated, which the developers will inevitably ignore."

This LinkedIn -> English converter hurts.

A picture of Password’s menu screen. It says Parseword, a tricky wordplay game. With buttons for Today’s puzzle and settings

Enjoying Parseword this week, from @josh.powerlanguage.co.uk

It feels like I’m learning a skill (how to do cryptic crosswords), creating an incentive to stick with it each day.

It's Tuesday: #EnduringPlay day! We move from last week's research of games on the market to very practical playtesting of individual #videogames while they're in production with @stevebromley.bsky.social, author of How to Be A Games User Researcher, with something for all. #gamedev #uxresearch

Senior Researcher- External Development US - United States

Sorry to hear that, it’s a big shame after all the great work you did with the team.

I suspect you’ll need some time to rest and reset, but flagging this remote Scopely role if you’re jumping straight into looking for the next thing: job-boards.greenhouse.io/scopely/jobs...

A floppy disk. Ram Doubler - double your ram with just one click

The ancient arts that were lost, now found.

The service they offer just looks to be preying on early-stage developers who have heard they should be doing playtesting, but not been exposed to why they should playtest or how to get value from the process.

Two circles One is “what we think we’re making” One is “what we’re actually making” The gap between them is marked “user research” with an arrow saying “discover this gap”

Well put - That’s the core concept that I find helps explain what the purpose of playtesting is. Here’s the pic I use to explain this concept in my book/talks:

Agreed. Preying on teams who are new to this and don’t have a professional understanding of what the purpose of playtesting or user research is.

Excellent thread from @maxnichols.bsky.social

I see this frequently when working live service & mobile teams who are lucky enough to have an active Discord - they represent *some*of your players, & have a big sway on vocal opinions, but don’t represent the vast majority of your player’s behaviour.

It’s been a while since I last ghostrode the whip.

Congratulations David, a big milestone!

Great point, I think you’re right that it will make people continue to think a survey is the ‘easy’ option.

“Surveys are bad because people don’t know the rules”

Yes, but I don’t think better question design is actually why surveys are bad.

More common if you’re defaulting to a survey is because teams haven’t thought enough about what they need to know, or what they will do with the info.

gotta remind myself that other devs know the score and understand when I say that -

I've been in the industry for 5 years, and tomorrow is the first time a game with a significant amount of my work is gonna be played by the public...

I'm so nervous!! and proud!! please play the Denshattack demo!!

My lukewarm take

Spamming LinkedIn requests is not networking. Stop advising people trying to break into the games industry to do this

Networking isn't a game you can min/max, it's about actual personal connections. Shitposting on Bluesky is a better networking tool than blind LinkedIn connections

A excellent piece on why 'Design by Reddit' is a terrible replacement for actual user research.

Keeping a finger on the pulse of social media sentiment can be an important *complement* to understanding your users (and even add context to your research responses), but can't replace #GamesUR

Xbox Research is looking for feedback on accessibility options in video games!

I am currently trying to balance a tilting ship… have recommended to friends!

My understanding is that books on KU are free, and authors are paid by the number of pages read. So you don’t need to convince people to purchase, and getting thousands of people to read just a few pages until they abandon it will add up.

The IGDA GURSIG is happy to announce the #gamesUR Summit 2026 in Helsinki, Finland this May 2026.
We look forward to connecting our community again!

Keep an eye on our website for details. www.gamesur.com/coming-soon-...

#GamesUR #UserResearch #GameDev

Lived through this in an in-house role, and it took me much too long to realise no-one cared about the question of “does this work”?

This is the core issue with tools promising to automate playtest/UR data analysis.

We run studies to find new answers. Hallucinations create plausible sounding answers.

There’s no way to identify what the hallucinations are without doing the same analysis yourself.