Cari 🍉 🔜 Develop / GA11y Gathering / GAConf
@cariwatterton.bsky.social
Gaming Accessibility Person. she/her Worked on ⚛️ Atomfall, 🔫 Sniper Elite and 🐉 Skye Tales. Witch who crafts, owns an unhealthy amount of board games and has a black cat called Toothless.
Look at that, talk in action! You can't really see me in all my purple glory, but I'm down there, sat at the front talking away. This event, and talk, and whole experience has meant a lot to me. I hope I get more opportunities to talk on things I love at events like this!
Impact Year 3 cohort! Please welcome the latest round of amazing disabled and neurodivergent individuals advocating for the community and standing out in their careers in the UK games industry. Follow us this disability pride as we showcase each member!
If you’re going to @ga11ygathering.bsky.social or @gaconf.bsky.social next week in Brighton, we’ll have a little trinket swap! So bring some shiny things to trade ☺️🖤
PSA for other Deaf and HoH gamers: - Icons for gunshots and footsteps now fade based on distance, making the distant ones significantly transparent. - Overall audio visualizer range for footsteps is now a much shorter range. communities.epicgames.com/thread/v41-0...
v41.00 Update Notes: Grab a Sprite. Get Out Alive. Fortnite Runners is Here | Fortnite Communities
The Zero Point cracked the sky wide open, scrambling and reassembling the Island into the Shattered Coast: a fresh map dropping mid-chapter with twisted takes on familiar POIs, a totally fresh pool...
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Really bummed out today. Fortnite “nerfed” their audio visualizer—something I absolutely need as a deaf player—and now the feature is basically useless for me personally and I can no longer play the game anymore.
Where to find your local Accessibili-Goth at Develop this year 🖤 Mostly running @ga11ygathering.bsky.social and helping with @gaconf.bsky.social - with a sprinkling of talks and roundtables. Mutuals reach out and lets meet up! 🦇
Electronic Arts started their rollout of the Accessible Games Initiative tags on their storefront. The Sims 4 and several other games have been tagged, with more to come later. Currently, the tags are only visible on EA's website, and not yet in the app. caniplaythat.com/2026/07/01/e...
Electronic Arts website starts showing Accessible Games Initiative tags - Can I Play That?
Electronic Arts started implementing accessibility tags from the Accessible Games Initiative on the EA website.
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Yay! AGI Accessibility Tags are now on some of our ea.com buy pages — more to come later. Long in the making and I am happy this will help our players make better informed purchasing decisions. For deeper details of how our games are accessible, always visit ea.com/accessibility ♿️✨
Ian Hamilton@ianhamilton.bsky.social · 2mo agoWait what @momoxmia.bsky.social there are AGI tags on the EA site?
Just over a week and a bit left to grab tickets for @ga11ygathering.bsky.social! We’ve got a great lineup of speakers and a fantastic panel. If you’re in Brighton for Develop, come join us! We’re making accessibility approachable to devs, to help you learn more without feeling overwhelmed.
Game A11y Gathering@ga11ygathering.bsky.social · 2mo ago2 weeks to go! 😱 We're so looking forward to welcoming you all to the third year of the Game Accessibility Gathering! Only a few weeks left to grab tickets to the event, we hope to see you there!
disabled ttrpg designers: I'm hosting a disability pride month game jam on itch (running from July 1-August 31, 2026). this jam is intended specifically for disabled ttrpg designers to showcase our work. so join me! invite all your crip game designer friends to join in! spread the word!
Disabled Designers Game Jam (TTRPG)
A game jam from 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-01 hosted by dungeonminister. header image description: rectangular stripes of color form a diamond shape around black text. the stripes are in the colors of the ...
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In Brighton for Develop? Interested in game accessibility? Come hang out! Game Accessibility Gathering in the afternoon and the GAConf social in the eve! 🥳
The Game Accessibility Conference @gaconf.bsky.social · 2mo agoGAConf By The Sea! In-person social mixer alongside #DevelopConf, 15th July 6pm-8pm, in collaboration with @ga11ygathering.bsky.social. If you think accessibility for disabled players is cool and want to hang out with others who do too, tickets are now on sale! www.eventbrite.com/e/gaconf-by-...
Get your nominations in for disabled and neurodivergent talent in the UK games industry! #Impact forms.cloud.microsoft/r/BjiUxgez4v
YouTube Premiere links are ready for the Access-Ability Summer Showcase. Premiering TODAY at 4pm UK, 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific. Standard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWw4... ASL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWx3... Audio Described: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuXY... BSL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdOq...
Access-Ability Summer Showcase 2026
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Tickets (and agenda 👀) for the Game Accessibility Gathering 2026 are live now! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/game-acces...
Game Accessibility Gathering 2026
An independent gaming accessibility micro conference.
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We are also particularly keen to make sure we have nominations from a wide variety of backgrounds and marginalised identities because while humans do, disability does not discriminate and everyone deserves to see themselves represented 💖
If you or someone you know works or has worked in the games industry , is UK/NI based, and is or wants to be visible representation of being a disabled or neurodivergent person, get that nomination in!! This includes roles like content creation/streaming, marketing, PR, QA, studio coordination etc
Many Cats Studios@manycatsstudios.bsky.social · 3mo agoYou nominating for Impact this year? Please do or @hfrayling.com will shout at her colleagues. Nomination link - forms.cloud.microsoft/r/BjiUxgez4v #Disability #Neurodiversity
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! There's a lot of nice game accessibility content, events and announcements today, so much that it's easy to miss things. So here's a handy cheat-sheet, I'll be keeping it updated throughout the day - ian-hamilton.com/games-indust... #gaad #gamedev
Bang on time for #GAAD! We are announcing the introduction of the Accessible Games Initiative's tags on our Store pages. So players can get the information they need where it matters the most: before purchase! #GameAccessibility #a11y news.ubisoft.com/en-gb/articl...
Ubisoft Launches Accessible Games Initiative Tags for Global Accessibility Awareness Day
The Accessible Games Initiative strives to provide players with clear information about accessibility features in games through a series of tags. Ubisoft has begun its progressive rollout of the tags,...
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Today is GAAD - Global Accessibility Awareness Day! ♿ If you're still new to games accessibility, or haven't thought about it much beyond subtitles, here are a few of my favourite resources for starting out. Talks, games, media and communities. Accessibili-buddies, feel free to add your faves too!
Save the date! 🗓️ The Game Accessibility Gathering will be on Wednedsay, 15th July from 11am-4pm, once again hosted at Unity's office in Brighton! Follow us on eventbrite to be notified when tickets go live: www.eventbrite.com/o/ga11y-gath...
How rude that the year I come up with my best talk title ever @manycatsstudios.bsky.social blows it out of the water almost immediately 😂 Just had the honour of Mat visiting our office in Barcelona the other week. The cats crew are all awesome and I’m sure this panel is gonna be nothing less! 💯
Many Cats Studios@manycatsstudios.bsky.social · 3mo agoAre you heading for @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social this weekend? The Cats Gang is their on Fri 22 May and we are doing a talk for the Careers Stage! www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/en-us...
Join @hfrayling.com as she gives an accessibility talk at Impact! Indie Games in Bristol next week. Nicely on the same day as GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day). Tickets found here: luma.com/ky59amg7
Emails to everyone who submitted talks have been sent out! ‼️Please check your spam folder. If you haven't had an email, get in touch. We had so many incredible talk submissions this year, thank you folks! We'll also be announcing the date and time of the Gathering very soon! 👀
Ep 42: The GA Conf EU 2026 Recap Special - Ctrl, Alt, Access Another year, a bunch more academic research to delve through. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eqa...
Ep 42: The GA Conf EU 2026 Recap Special - Ctrl, Alt, Access
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One of my favourite talks was about game controls by the very knowledgeable @cariwatterton.bsky.social. Controls are such an important part of players' experience, but not everyone can play games the same way. Flexibility and simplicity can help reduce barriers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zqf...
Your Controls Suck (probably)
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Blue Prince Patch 1.7 released for Steam on PC today, very appropriately called the accessibility update. It finally adds remapping to the game, but also color assist options to help colorblind players, and motion assist options to avoid motion sickness. caniplaythat.com/2026/04/29/b...
Blue Prince Patch 1.7 introduces long awaited accessibility features - Can I Play That?
Blue Prince Patch 1.7 is called the accessibility update and includes remapping, motion assist, and color assist options.
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ICYMI the write up for the Accessibility Roundtable at GDC is now up on the IGDA GASIG website! Huge thanks to IGDA and @ianhamilton.bsky.social for asking myself and @jordandevries.com to host. So grateful to be able to help these discussions happen 🖤 igda-gasig.org/2026/04/01/g...
GDC 2026 Accessibility Roundtable - IGDA Game Accessibility SIG
Presented by the IGDA at GDC 2026 While accessibility has grown across the games industry, there are many constraints that we are all facing. Progressing from a desire to act or adhoc wins to somethin...
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How can game developers design more accessible mobile gaming experiences? Player Researcher @mayfr3d.bsky.social shares how, alongside @cariwatterton.bsky.social at @developconference.com! Full schedule: www.developconference.com/conference-p... #a11y #GameAccessibility #developconf #gamedev
no way that this happens on the ONE DAY A YEAR that I'm trying to avoid the internet BUT IM SO HONORED, "an unplayable game?!" was such a small project but it's been a dream come true to see it reach so far :') play it, its free!!! congrats to all the other nominees, see you guys across the pond!
an unplayable game?! on Steam
a game about accessibility settings that's just a *bit* too hard for you to play effectively. 10-15 minutes in length with 30+ minutes of developer commentary!
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Indie Game Awards@debugawards.com · 5mo agoThe shortlisted nominees for 'Award for Accessibility' at Debug's 2026 Indie Game Awards are... Adventure to Fate: Dungeons an unplayable game?! Laser Dance Squeakross: Home Squeak Home Trash Goblin Wednesdays Thank you to @gamemaker.io for making our ceremony possible. See you there 25 Apr 2026!
