Our collaborations with award-winning branding gurus UnitedUs continue, delivering this campaign of stunning faux-retro game covers to advertise our playtesting to the public.
Brand and design magazine The Brand Identity covered the campaign with a front-page feature.
In partnership with Player Research’s Games Accessibility Lead Améliane F. Chiasson, I launched ‘Advancing Accessibility’: the most comprehensive suite of gamedev-specific accessibility services available. Working with several Keywords studios — TrailerFarm, SPOV, Climax, Descriptive Video Works, Keywords Globalise, and Keywords Labs — we designed and launched a range of capabilities to support the development of games that deliberately include their disabled players.
The launch was featured in GameDeveloper.com, MCV, and other key games industry news platforms.
You can read more about the services on the Advancing Accessibility website.
Player Research has been nominated for a Develop Star Award once again. This peer-nominated and peer-judged award continues to be one of the highest-value accolades in game development, and we never take our continued nominations for granted.
I was interviewed for German gaming print magazine IGM. What can games user research do? Read the full article in German here.
A second edition of GRUX Online, a collaboration between Emma Varjo and I. This time with refreshed branding, new website and higher-quality production values. Here’s the YouTube playlist.
The Develop:Star Awards recognises the very best games and talent within the industry:
These awards are all about the game dev community celebrating the creative excellence of the game makers behind the best games of the previous 12 months.
Since the Develop:Star Awards reshuffled their award categories, bundling Player Research in with enormous Localisation and Quality Assurance companies literally hundreds-of-times our headcount, it’s now all-the-more rewarding to be nominated.
Since 2012 Player Research has been nominated for the Develop Awards many times, and each never means any less than the first: peer recognition of our achievements, on the global stage.
For five years Jonathan Dankoff and I have been polling the gamesUR community for their anonymous salary data. The recent addition of data whizz Andrew Menger-Ogle added a salary calculator and deeper-data-dives.
This initiative has been powerful for guiding entry-level researcher salaries, and avoiding exploitation of gamesUR staff through hidden knowledge.
Here’s the latest data:
Friend and colleague Steve Bromley has penned a superb book on the foundations of games user research.
I’m honoured to have contributed the foreword and to the editing of the book. I even managed to grab an hour of Steve’s time to discuss his perspective on games user research. Listen to the interview below.
I worked behind the scenes to ensure the GRUX Online conference went swimmingly. All the videos are on YouTube.
