I agree 100% with this idea, but I’ve received a lot of pushback from security folks when trying to get it implemented. They often argue that revealing which specific complaints result in action can reveal information about the inner workings of the system, potentially enabling better cheating.

Ben Taels@bentaels.taels.net · 4d ago

Provide feedback to players when you act on reports they have given for the anti-social behaviour of other players. By letting the reporter know that action has been taken you close the feedback loop for them and build more trust in the system. #gamedev #UX

This was such an elegant aspect of Destiny’s social design. It gently encouraged strangers to play near each other in the open world, and meant you were always happy to run across another player.

Ben Taels@bentaels.taels.net · 6d ago

Think about how your game mechanics encourage social play. Supers from Destiny are a good example. Using them generates motes of light that charge other players Super abilities. Creating a virtuous feedback loop even if the original use of the super was self-serving. #gamedev #UX

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

Having a great start to Day 1 at the #GamesUR Conference 2026. Thanks to all our attendees and for joining us this week! www.gamesur.com/conference/g...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Really good research questions are not just things that describe your study goal, but something that can guide entire teams and milestones for your game. Come to #GamesUserResearchConference2026 and find out why this work is so critical to building an effective research practice! 🇫🇮

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

My friend loves the Gnoles in @tkingfisher.com 's World of the White Rat books. So I dressed up this little guy for her (I did not make the plush- not that many spoons). But the advantage of being a reenactment nerd is when you ask friends for Wool scraps, they deliver.

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Tickets are now on sale for the #GamesUR Conference 2026, which is the annual gathering of the Games User Research Community. The conference will be held in Helsinki on October 22–23, 2026. We hope to see you in October! www.eventbrite.fi/e/gamesur-co...

#GamesUR Conference 2026

The #GamesUR Conference is the annual gathering of the Games User Research community

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I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:

I saw this picture and immediately had to show it to some level designers.

So, who’s hiring? (Yes, I was impacted by the Netflix layoffs even though I was the single accessibility person in gaming.)

Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Rainier Cherries the 2 weeks each year they have them at my Costco $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

I’ve spent the last decade applying my game and UX design background to a new project: a high-fidelity, plant-based restoration of Persian cuisine. No fake meats. Just a strict protocol to fix standard cookbook chaos. The beta site is live: verdanttablecookbook.com

The Verdant Table

Classic & Regional Plant-Based Persian Cooking

verdanttablecookbook.com

Don't make me get the whole meme

Calvin’s dad voice: The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories. Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists. Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism. Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

If your job doesn’t revolve around video games and you’re constantly thinking, “god, I wish I had more time to play video games,” I am devastated to report that my job does revolve around games and I still think that exact thought every day of my life

Forbes: Corporate Warrior (1997)

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper! 1/5

So hey! In more concrete terms: I got hit by the Epic layoff yesterday. - Looking for Senior/Principal/Lead-ish roles around Level Design, Technical Design, Systems Design, etc. - Strong preference for US/Seattle/Remote Site is a little rough from the last time around, but: andrew-weldon.design

Andrew Weldon@andrew-weldon.design · 8mo ago

Well hey, anyone out there want to pay me to make video games? 🤔

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.