Chloe 🌈

A white cat with pink ears and fluffy fur snoozes on a windowsill at night. Rainbow Christmas lights are hanging over the window behind her.

A photo from the Hatsune Miku concert. Hatsune Miku, a tall girl with long blue pigtails wearing a pink dress, can be seen on stage with her arms in the air. Bright yellow, pink and blue lights shine over the audience.

I'm thankful that I'm starting to heal now, and that I'm slowly learning to be kind to myself again.

Looking forward to seeing what 2025 will bring (and also Monster Hunter Wilds). It's nice to feel somewhat normal and human again, and I'm glad I'm still here.

I started a new job and have had two promotions. My team are lovely.

In Autumn, I started drumming lessons, and went on a solo trip to London to see Hatsune Miku live. I also finally started my PTSD therapy sessions a few weeks ago.

Things that may seem trivial, but were huge hurdles for me.

The first half of 2024 was an incredibly difficult time for me.

Dealing with redundancy, chronic illness flare-ups, loneliness, and severe mental health issues hit me hard. So hard, that at one point I didn't want to be here anymore.

But, things started to turn around towards the end of the year.

A jigsaw split into 9 equal and vertical sections, each including an Eeveelution in white with their respective colour for the segment background. Eevee in brown, Vaporeon in navy blue, Jolteon in yellow, Flareon in red, Espeon in lavender, Umbreon in black, Leafeon in green, Glaceon in cyan blue, and Sylveon in pink.

Today's tasks included ignoring all my chores and hyperfixating on a cute jigsaw all afternoon ✨

Zenless Zone Zero Chapter 5 was phenomenal, I genuinely cannot fathom how the devs keep making banger after banger. Can't wait to see how the 1.X arc wraps up, and what 2.X will have in store for us.

Shout-out to my new favourite reaction gif too

Steam Replay spider graph. The categories in order of highest to lowest playtime are: Farming Sim, Tower Defense, Hero Shooter, Creator Collector, Rhythm, and Fishing.

yeah this checks out lol

forever waiting for the day where someone makes a fishing rhythm farming sim creature collector game

a pink and white bunny with blue eyes and a bow on its neck Alt: Sylveon, a white and pale pink cat-like Pokémon with large rabbit-like ears, smiles gleefully.

I started collecting Pokémon cards a few weeks back and managed to pick up a (reasonably priced) Terastal Festival box from Japan.

It's due to be delivered tomorrow and I am EXCITED

A black and white image from a security camera. A white cat is standing and looking directly into the camera. Her eyes glow ominously.

Decided to buy a cat cam to see what Elsie gets up to when I'm not at home.

Caught the demon mid-zoomies

Heads up Infinity Nikki players - if you are pulling for the Blooming Fantasy dress in the current banner, button spam is REQUIRED to float with the dress equipped, rather than simply pressing the button once like the default outfit.

#a11y #accessibility #infinitynikki

I am utterly exhausted at the moment, between hospital visits and trips to the GP, a super busy time at work, and preparing for a job interview tomorrow - not to mention Christmas looming on the horizon.

I can't wait until this week is over and I can just rest 😴

My jaw dropped when I posed the question of 'can users choose their own colour palette for these data sets if the presets aren't suitable?" and the answer was simply "yes, we'll implement that next week." No pushback about budget, time, resource - just yes 🥹

I've since been asked to run training with our data scientist team, who want to start building systems with accessibility in mind from the start! I've also been nominated to run a company-wide session next year (scary).

Overjoyed at how my little accessibility push is being so eagerly received 🥰

Infinity Nikki screenshot. A girl with blond hair, wearing a detailed white gown and a flower crown is sat in front a field of purple and blue flowers. She has her eyes closed and looks content.

A blanketed picnic area - a blue rug, white pillows, and a small lantern all surrounded by vibrant green glass. A white sailboat floats on water in the background.

A stone wall covered in ivy and moss. A hand-drawn frog painting is central on the wall, with potted plants at either side.

A path through the forest surrounded by many thin, tall trees and white flower bushes. The lighting is warm and soft.

I am obsessed with Infinity Nikki, please send help 🌸✨

I must've had hundreds of hours playing this, never finished it though because the final level scared me too much 😅

I am so ready for Infinity Nikki tomorrow, the theme song is so catchy 🎵

So many people turned up to listen - the discussion and engagement that came out of the session was so good and I am so thankful that my team are embracing accessibility like this!

My heart is so full 🥹 (and still slightly stressed)

I've been asked to run a training session on accessibility tomorrow at work to a team of about 50 people and I am ✨ extremely nervous ✨

Ohmygosh where is this from???

I am obsessed with Monster Hunter and Hatsune Miku, and I have no self control when it comes to gacha games. I also play drums (badly).

I'm super bad at conversation (and being a functioning human) though, so do feel free to reach out if you fancy a chat (especially if it's about accessibility!) 😊

I'm still hugely passionate about accessibility though and would like to return to the games industry one day.

But, for now, I'll continue advocacy and education around accessibility wherever I go! Blessed that my new team at work are so full of enthusiasm and support 🙏🏻

It's been more than a year so it's time for an update I think!

Hiya! I no longer work in the games industry after the layoffs in 2023 (and an abusive manager lol) but have since moved over into the education sector. For those of you following me from my previous post, sorry to disappoint 😅

Figured I'd join the club, hiya bluesky 👋🏻

I'm a User Researcher at Team17 and I've worked in the industry for nearly 7 years. I'm super passionate about accessibility and I enjoy PS5 trophy hunting!

I'd like to meet/follow more games industry and accessibility folk so pls feel free to say hi 💙🙏🏻