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Nazih Fares - Your friendly neighborhood game dev and consultant | Nazih F. This month, I'm hitting the one-year mark of unemployment, and providing for my family weighs heavily on me every single day. The reality of competing against more than 45,000 talented professionals w...

Approaching one year of unemployment is terrifying and bills need to be paid. A year of pitching The Arab League of Misfits yielded zero funding so far, and competing with 45K laid-off devs is bleak. I urgently need freelance or full-time remote roles
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Back in the day if you wanted to know the average lifespan of a crow you had to hop on a bike and drive to the library, find the right shelf and the book, read it until you found the answer.

While I greatly appreciate modern day access to information, pulling your phone out and -

Today’s lack of reliable sources when searching for information is annoying and frustrating and takes the joy out of any research. But gotta keep digging,

- googling the ai summary doesn’t really feel like a similar kind of adventure nor accomplishment.

Back in the day if you wanted to know the average lifespan of a crow you had to hop on a bike and drive to the library, find the right shelf and the book, read it until you found the answer.

While I greatly appreciate modern day access to information, pulling your phone out and -

That was the best phone ever.

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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A small angry looking kitten staring at the camera.

Good morning, did you sleep well?

Me:

A small angry looking kitten staring at the camera.

Good morning, did you sleep well?

Me:

We talk a lot about immersion and player experience.

But what experience is there if the game is so inaccessible that you’re locked out in the first five minutes?

or kiwis

For example?

And honestly, these things usually make the game better for everyone.

You don’t need a diagnosis to benefit from readable UI or flexible controls.

A lot of accessibility fixes aren’t even big, dramatic things, at all:

Bigger subtitles. Clearer contrast. Letting players remap controls.

Small decisions can make a huge difference.

We talk a lot about immersion and player experience.

But what experience is there if the game is so inaccessible that you’re locked out in the first five minutes?

I don’t mind it though, just been thinking about it lately!

I know elderly folks with very active social life and they still talk nonstop. But for some, that most definitely is one of the reasons.

Why old people talk nonstop? What’s the science behind that.

I was thinking a mime

@videogameschronicle.com

Ahead of my NYU talk on the history/future of games journalism, I want to test a theory about how small/big games media is:

Please share links to where you get games reporting/criticism.

They can be a site, blog, YouTuber, streamer, social handle, podcast. They must be places/people you trust.

An average staple is exactly the size of USB-A.

Goodnight.

Video games accessibility really isn’t about being perfect.

It’s about caring enough to try before someone has to point it out loud.

Murder Meet Cute You shouldn't be here.

Heck I even put some accessibility into the website I made for the game! All images have meaningful alt text, and you can turn the filter off/change the font. I don't think anyone has even noticed it yet, but it's important to me people have the option so they can engage. murdermeetcute.com

Love this too!! So much.

Love that!!! 🤝

Oh yes that’s what we love to have in the industry!

The studios that get it right tend to do one simple thing: they listen early.

Not after launch. Or after backlash. Early.