QAuDHD Weekly

Happy first Monday of December!

Working from home makes it all-too-easy to just "power through" those days where you're feeling rough, because you figure you can still sift through emails and Slack messages, hold it together enough for a 15 minute meeting, and generally get a few bits done while you relax on the sofa (pretty much my normaly working day anyway).

This week I talk about why I'm proud of myself for calling in sick (sort of) last week, and the sorts of things you should be analysing when performing a game quality retrospective.

As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #different #retrospective

Happy Monday, everyone!

Last week I confused everyone with my foward thinking reminsicning on looking back at... sorry, I'm doing it again. This time I'll be making things a lot clearer by talking about when you might do Grey Box testing on Grey Box levels and when you might do Gry Box testing on NON-Grey Box levels... or indeed testing with other colour names. Simples!

As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #simples #greybox

Good Monday, everyone! Looking forward, I imagine we'll look back on recent events and wonder how far back things went wrong. Yet, looking back, I've realised that I look forward to looking back on things, especially with a view of learning and developing, in order to move forward stronger than before.

Anyway, now that's been cleared up, let's get into today's issue! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics.

Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️ #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #retrospectives #socialmaths

Last week was... intense, huh?

This week, I'm focussing on some bad advice and straight up lies we're told as kids. Then in a less-related-than-I'd-like main topic I'll be giving a brief overview of Compliance in videogames, why it's important and why, despite how important it is, it's often left to the last minute.

As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #advice #compliance

That title is a quote! Don't hate me...

Now then - normal service resumes this week, as I'm finally over that horrible cold (the audio version of last week's episode has been added for anyone who needs it - sorry for the delay!). This week I'm talking about how things can get easily lost in translation, both at work and in general, following a particulalry akward encounter with a member of staff at the hotel I was staying at last week.

As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd

Apologies for the delay in getting this one live!

I've been bedridden for the past few days after an intense week, so there's no recorded version (yet) of this week's newsletter - I've also thrown the 500 word rule out the window for this one, but you'll see why. The spicy topic this week is about having a very "problem solving" oriented brain, while the actual topic is (mostly) about close collaboration between game quality and player research.

As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #manflu #uxr

Happy Monday everoyone!

This week I'm talking about some confusing posts I've seen online recently and how my logic-driven brain struggles to process what seems like some pretty illogical arguments. I also talk (and at one point sing) about irony a lot too. The main topic this week is then about the benefits of forming a strong working relationship with game production!

As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #edi #production

Good Monday everyone!

So last week I was feeling a little overwhelmed and ended up having an anxiety attack. Since the point of QAuDHD is to provide my lived experience, I thought I'd share a little bit about what that's like, and follow it up with a quick chat about what can happen when bugs slip through the net and find their way into launched games (something that gives me anxiety by itself).

As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #anxiety

It's QAuDHD Day (aka Monday),

I've calmed down a bit this week - which is ironic, because the topics are about overwork and having a busy brain. I even do a (terrible) Bane impression. What more could you want from your weekly dose of spicy-brained videogames/QA chat?

As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #management #opa #spinningplates #overwork

Good Monday one and all!

This episode is... a bit of a rant. It's not aimed at anyone in particular, and I didn't realise until I'd chosen the topic just how much I felt I needed to get off my chest. Hopefully it's still useful and interesting information, but at the very least, I feel better now!

As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #routine #rant #inclusion #bullying

P.S This is the last day you can regiester for the Sprint course I'm running for IntoGames in October!

https://www.intogames.courses/course/qa-testing-david-jenkins-oct