QAuDHD Weekly

This week, I discuss my personal experiences as someone who supposedly can't do empathy, but in reality empathises too much, and ask the question: are videogames "art"? Although, spoiler alert, I don't have a good answer!

This week I discuss two deeply philosophical questions that I've had people ask me recently: how neurodivergent is neurodivergent enough and what is “fun”?

Ten episodes! 🥳🎉 Thank you so much to all my readers, listeners and subscribers. For this exciting milestone I thought it was high time that I actually explained what neurodivergence and QA (in the games industry at least) actually ARE.

This week I talk about masking: what is it and why do people like me do it, as well as imposter syndrome within the industry and how I've coped with it before - and continue to cope with it now!

This week I'll be talking about the "language barrier" that can exist between neurotypical and neurodiverse people and why keeping things fresh for your quality teams is a great way to get the most out of them! Trigger warning: bad pronunciation of a language I'm still learning!

This week I break down some of what it's like actually living with both autism and ADHD, and how these two distinct parts of my brain sometimes team up to make me awesome and sometimes join forces to make me useless. I also talk a bit about the "Holy Grail" of games quality through probably the best analogy I've ever thought of!

As you might have guessed, this weeks topics are about verbal communication vs written communication (from my AuDHD perspective) and UX design in videogames.

A few weeks ago, I did a Discipline Deep-Dive on QA for IntoGames as one of their Videogames Ambassadors. Unfortunately we didn't have time to answer all of the questions that people had, so I scrolled back through the YouTube comments and made sure to answer the ones we'd missed.

This week I'll be discussing how I cope with change as someone who stereotypically struggles with it, while also advocating for a change in how (or more accurately, when) QA is utilised in videogames - oh the irony!

This week I'm basically covering the same topic from two perspectives. Initially I'll be talking about why remote working suits me down to the ground and then I'll be talking about how to make the most of your remote QA teams.

This week I'm talking a little bit about my autism/ADHD diagnoses and how it made me feel to finally put a label to the weird things my brain does, as well as covering (not for the last time, I suspect) Accessibility within videogames.

This week I talk about the big scary digital elephant in the room - AI. I also cover why paragraphs are so important for me in any written conversation (which makes more sense if you're reading these articles on my LinkedIn than if you're listening on the podcast - sorry about that!

Our first proper episode, which talks about what an autistic "special interest" is and also covers a field which I always ensure to add to my bug reports to help with risk mitigation, prioritising and presenting data about project health.

A brief introduction to me and to this new series of articles about my experiences as a QA professional in videogames with autism and ADHD.