User testing & Accessibility in games

Understanding how to conduct small user tests and quick iterations; introduction to accessibility in games

Contact Time

• Monday (17/2/25) – Intro to Games User Research (GUR)
• Thursday (20/2/25) – Testing workshop

Description

Thursday’s session: Sophie will go through the games accessibility guidelines and talk about accessibility implementation with industry examples of accessibility implementation. She will also give a short workshop on user testing and how to write bug reports in preparation for the mandatory playtesting session in Week 5.

Outcomes

• Students will understand fundamentals of games accessibility and where to find accessibility tools online
• Students will understand how to write bug reports
• Students will understand how to test their games

Resources

• https://gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/
• https://color-contrast-checker.deque.com/
• Colour Palette Studio

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week 4 – lecture

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Reflection :

After this lecture we talked about what tasks to work on for this week. I was falling a bit behind with the protagonist because I was still new to animation and pixel art.

🔴 – Not implemented

🟠 – Working on

🟢 – complete

Current vertical slice idea :

First Realm (Depression) Containing:

• Hub World
• Smaller prologue (3 rooms)🟢
• 5 different enemies
• The first realm (7 rooms) 🟢
• Boss fight

( Week 3 : old )

• Protagonist art 🟠
• Enemy animation 🟠

Week 4

• Finishing Protagonist art /animation
• Finishing Enemy animation