Celia Hodent 🔜 #GameUXsummit
@celiahodent.com
Author #TheGamersBrain & more books on games / cog science • Indie consultant, ex-dir. #UX @ EpicGames Fortnite, LucasArts, Ubi • Phd psych • She/Her 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 celiahodent.com
I’m proud to support @takethis.org and my friend @kindofstrange.com’s important work. #GameUXsummit #gamedev #mentalhealth
gameuxsummit.com@gameuxsummit.com · 4h agoWelcome to the #GameUXsummit Day 2! We start the day with a short message from @takethis.org ‘s director Tara J. Brannigan. Mental health in #gamedev is more important now than ever before. Take This provides resources to support you. Reach out! #mentalhealth
It’s going soooo fast!! So excited to have my friend Evva keynoting at the #GameUXsummit ☺️
gameuxsummit.com@gameuxsummit.com · 20h agoIt’s already time for our closing keynote for Day 1 of the #GameUXsummit! Evva Karr, CEO at Glitch & partner at Moonrise Fund is taking the stage to explain that “The Next Decade of Games Will Be Built With Players, Not For Them”. #ux #gamedev
After a delicious lunch featuring Malaysian delicacies, we’re starting the Day 1 afternoon talks with Yi Wei P'ng, Founder & Director of Kurechii, presenting “When Better Isn’t Better: Five Postknight 2 Improvements That Backfired” #ux #gamedev #GameUXsummit #GUXS
Jami Lukins, UX director at Blizzard, gave us a talk about “Trust: The Foundation for Building UX Maturity” at the #GameUXsummit. #ux #gamedev
Noor Amin, neuroscientist & Sr Game Designer at Riot Games, was our first speaker of Day 1 at #GUXS. Her talk was about “Bringing Mayhem to ARAM: R&D Processes for Systems Designers”. #ux #gamedev #GameUXsummit
Let’s goooo! 🥳❤️ We’re kicking off our 10-year anniversary, w00t!! #ux #gamedev #gameUXsummit
gameuxsummit.com@gameuxsummit.com · yesterdayIan Plater kicking off the #GameUXsummit 26 in Kuala Lumpur!! ❤️🥳
Does anyone here know how to overcome gender bias against women on Wikipedia? Someone wrote a page in English about my profile & it got deleted immediately bc it was "too promotional" (I guess mentioning the books I wrote, the Game UX Summit, and Ethical Games was pushing it too far 😂 ). 1/3
For our 10-year anniversary we don’t have 2 keynote speakers, but 3! 3 people, living in 3 continents (America, Europe, Asia), having unique journeys in #gamedev & #ux that they will share with #GameUXsummit attendees. I hope that you’ll join us in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 12-13!! (link below)
Does anyone who was at the first @gameuxsummit.com in Durham 10 year ago have a funny or interesting anecdote that they want to share with me? Or at any Game UX summit actually. Opening the summit in less than 2 weeks and I wanna do a quick retrospective. Would love to share some of your memories 🥹
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.
Absolutely wild. 1/2
[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]
Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]
$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.
10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.
Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.
I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?
[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me
[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreiaanor72a6up5kzdjejmmzvad3lvqqimzavejo6yowdodrqftlzwq)
I got the covid and flu vaccines a few days ago. If you can, get yours soon! Stay healthy and keep others safe 🤙🏼
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 2w agoAs of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
What does he thinks “competence” even means? Because it’s sure as hell MUCH harder to do good in this world than evil. And you can’t even become a billionaire doing good, unlike evil, thus making it even easier to keep spreading crap rather than good deeds 🤷🏻♀️
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2w agoThis is actually hell, right?
Surprise and energetic @pearljam.com show tonight at #OhanaFest, on this harvest moon. Introducing Abe Laboriel Jr as the new drummer 🤟🏼. I hope that Glen Hansard watched from above and felt all the love. What a beautiful night. 🤙🏼
“Per Gibney, Musk declined to be interviewed for the film, so the director created an AI version of Musk uttering verbatim public quotes as a stand-in for a real interview. That, too, is likely to draw some controversy.” Er— yeah.. wth?
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 3w agoHis work deeply impacted my childhood and thereafter. We need more Jim Hensons in this world.
Brian Jay Jones@brianjayjones.com · 3w agoJim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
The proposed EU KIDS Act would impose significant restrictions to common features in online games, such as login bonuses: here's what game developers need to know https://bit.ly/4AraVYS
Just catching up on the news and oh boy… what a disaster at Microsoft. Again. I feel so sorry for the teams decimated / swooshed around, and for everyone who’s going to be laid off. I hope that you can all land on your feet soon. Words don’t mean much but we are all with you. ❤️
Call for papers #ACM Games: Research & Practice special issue seeks empirical & practice-based research examining #gamedesign & #gamedev in practice, how games are actually made & what these practices reveal about games & those who make them. Deadline: Nov 15 More info: dl.acm.org/pb-assets/st...
I’ll be speaking at this! About the playtesting, accessibility and iteration on @denshattack.bsky.social 🚋🔎⭐️🛹
Celia Hodent 🔜 #GameUXsummit@celiahodent.com · 3w agoI can't believe the @gameuxsummit.com '26 is in 3 weeks already! For its 10-year anniversary (TEN years 👀 ), the summit comes to Asia for the first time 😍 (and gets an amazing re-branding by no other than Alex Townsend). This is such an incredible milestone 🧵 (1/6)
I can't believe the @gameuxsummit.com '26 is in 3 weeks already! For its 10-year anniversary (TEN years 👀 ), the summit comes to Asia for the first time 😍 (and gets an amazing re-branding by no other than Alex Townsend). This is such an incredible milestone 🧵 (1/6)
I can't believe the @gameuxsummit.com '26 is in 3 weeks already! For its 10-year anniversary (TEN years 👀 ), the summit comes to Asia for the first time 😍 (and gets an amazing re-branding by no other than Alex Townsend). This is such an incredible milestone 🧵 (1/6)
I guess I found my favorite store in Seattle 😜💜
Oh no… Les Rita Mitsouko was the most creative French rock band and she had such an amazing voice…
Agence France-Presse@afp.com · 4w ago⚫️🎵 Une diva à la voix puissante et déjantée. Catherine Ringer est décédée à 68 ans d'un cancer foudroyant, 19 ans après son âme soeur Fred Chichin, l'autre moitié des Rita Mitsouko, l'un des groupes les plus détonants du rock français. ✍️ Portrait: u.afp.com/Sj8L
Feeling a big FOMO for this one! Would love to go to see my NY friends and promote the code of ethics @ethicalgames.org but I’ll be heading for the @gameuxsummit.com at that time… Hopefully someone will be the voice of ethics there, as there are many many folks/orgs interested in the topic in NYC!
Guy 'Yug' Blomberg @ New York Games Week@yug.bsky.social · 4w agoBeing mentioned in the same Variety article as Zohran Mamdani is definitely a high point for me! Grateful to see how everyone is positively responding to @nygamesweek.bsky.social so far! variety.com/2026/gaming/...
