QAuDHD Weekly

We're resuming normal service (albeit with a nasty cold) this week and talking about facial expressions and Bug Severities! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd

A special Mental Health focussed episode this week, in honour of World Mental Health Day (which was on Saturday). As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #mentalhealth

We're back! And this week we're talking about a not-so-surprising conclusion from a research study looking into the nature of autism, and taking a look at how to structure your test cases to make the measier to follow. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #genetics #s...

This week we're looking at the scary reality of Global Gender Parity, holding paragraphs in our hands and questioning whether most feedback is just a bug waiting to be written up properly. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #feedback #genderparity

This week we're talking about timekeeping - how some people make excuses for being late, while others drive teams to deliver on time. It's one of the more successfully "themed" issues I've done recently! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #deadlines #t...

This week I talk briefly about how ridiculous the "too many diagnosis" argument is before taking a trip down memory lane to discuss the way we helped to come up with the target scores in OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #scores

This week I'm celebrating the successful launch of Lou's Lagoon and the exciting announcement of Vaewolf, while completing our two-part look at the differences between different platform holder systems with a look at storefronts. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #launch

This is the start of my third year doing QAuDHD, so we begin with a little recap on the format for new readers/listeners, before jumping into my bouncy brain and how that helps me with all the different ways that Platform Holders handle build submissions. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adh...

We're back! Back again! Guess who's back? Tell a friend (to like and subscribe). Yes, I know it's been a couple of weeks, I'm sorry - I haven't abandoned you all, I've just been quite ill. Again. As this is our 104th issue, marking two years worth of QAuDHD, this issue is mostly a look back over the last year of fatherhood and two years in the games industry, with a special...

This is our last Disability Pride issue of 2026 with a focus on the positive impact of "labels" both on neurodivergent people and on Game Quality professionals. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #disabilitypride

This week, to continue our Disability Pride Month focus, we're talking about how much more expensive it can be to be disabled, and how much more expensive it can be to NOT hire an embedded Quality team at your studio. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #disabilitypride

Today we're talking about Thought Modes, different ways to react to things being "different" and I even manage to throw in a vague reference to the FIFA Men's World Cup, since that's currently a thing. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #thoughtmodes

Today we celebrate 100 episodes of QAuDHD with an extra-long neurospicy focussed issue that talks mostly about... socks... As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd

I'm back! And this week we're talking about some outside the box thinking and putting forward some thoughts on the different types of feedback and when they might be useful for development teams to hear. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd

This week I have been dealing with my first personal experience of ableist abuse (so a nice light topic to kick us off...) and been reflecting on how the sort of analytics data we tend to collect from players can benefit testing during development. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audh...

This week I've mostly been struggling with internal regulation and championing internal validation! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. P.S. HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #heatwave

This week I'm celebrating a doubly successful Qualicon and reminding everyone of the importance of accessibility advocacy, in the wake of Global Accessibility Awareness Day! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #qualicon #gaad

This week I'm providing a BBC style "balanced perspective" on last week's rant about people in the industry not appreciating or understanding game quality, and a far less balanced rant about the terrifying results of certain recent elections. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism...

Hi everyone! Apologies for missing last week - you'll see why when you get stuck into this week's issue since we kick-off talking about this year's GAconf and Qualicon events, before going on a little rant about how underappreciated game quality still seems to be. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gam...

Hi everyone! This week I discuss what happens when your limitless patiance turns out not to be so limitless and discuss some simple (and some less simple) time saving techniques which can make your game testing more efficient! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #efficiency

And after the Easter break, we're back! This time we're talking about authority and responsibility, both in more general terms and when it comes to our role in game quality. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #authority

This week I'm talking about tests. Not like QA tests, but tests for QA... of QA... tests for testing a tester's ability to test. My head hurts. I also discuss the (lack of) special educational support I recieved growing up and briefly touch on some appauling racism (as if there's any other kind). As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for fu...

This week feels less instructional and more like a bit of a rant... but thos can be fun, too! First up, we're talking intersectionality and why it can be difficult to achieve, then we're casting our minds all the way back to when physical games came with those awesome little instruction booklets. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future...

This week I open up about a particularly low moment for me in the week, including downward spirals, imposter syndrome and parenthood, then cover some basic advice on managing test cycles to avoid wasted effort and tester fatigue. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #releasema...

This week I cover how easily I can get overwhelmed by sights, sounds and textures, but how much I rely on constant input just to function. I also cover how to keep your quality team's own documentation up to scratch. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #releasemanagement...