Director of Professional Development @AbleGamers. Artist. Teacher. Animator. Game designer. Carbon-based lifeform. 60% water. 40% English Muffin pizza.
Allentown, PA
Joined March 2010
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Steven Weitz retweeted
A huge thank you to @updownkc for last week's Coins for a Cause fundraising event benefitting the mission at AbleGamers. $1821 in funds were raised from token sales that night, which will be used locally to enable play and combat social isolation for gamers with disabilities.
Steven Weitz retweeted
⚠️ Today is the last day to enter to win an expenses paid trip to Blizzard Studios or Treyarch Studio in California. Every entry supports the mission of accessible play for disabled gamers!
Enter to win: win.ablegamers.org/
Steven Weitz retweeted
Supporting accessible gaming 🤝 Chance to win the trip of a lifetime
Learn more about this sweepstakes and enter to win: win.ablegamers.org/
Thank you to @ATVI_AB for helping make this sweepstakes possible!
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Steven Weitz retweeted
Our friends at @Twitch are giving $10,000 in matching donations. Every dollar you give right now is worth $2. 🧡
Donate on the Twitch stream: twitch.tv/ablegamers
Or Tiltify: tiltify.com/ablegamers-chari…
Last year’s was wonderful - you don’t want to miss out!
Only three more days until the virtual event of the year!! Join us in celebrating 20 years of changing the lives of disabled players through accessibility in gaming.
Get your tickets: ablegamers.org/gala-2024/
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Hello fellow #GDC24 folks!
Still building your schedule? Check out my talk, “Empower Your Players: How to Level-Up Difficulty Modes into Accessibility” (Wednesday at 3:30 in 2014 West)
You won’t regret it!
… or maybe you will. I don’t know your life.
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I’ll be furthering the @AbleGamers mission by talking game accessibility this Friday with Activision Blizzard King’s Adrian Ledda, on a @sxsw panel moderated by @sarahparvini
Check it out if you want to make your games and products more accessible!
bit.ly/3TnYolH
Steven Weitz retweeted
Save the date: Our 2nd annual virtual AbleGamers Gala is on April 6th. Join us for a day of fun to support the mission of giving people with disabilities the same opportunities as everyone else for positive experiences through play.
Stay tuned for more Gala details to come!
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Steven Weitz retweeted
1/2: For people with disabilities, the friendships formed through gaming can be especially valuable. We're happy to say that selected #accessibility champions at Kinda Brave and our studios have become Certified APX Practitioners through @AbleGamers.
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Steven Weitz retweeted
2/2: The course is full of concrete applications and learnings, and we really recommend all game developers who have the chance to check it out. Here are our own four key takeaways after completing it: sustainablegaming.com/news/c…
Steven Weitz retweeted
We had an amazing fireside chat with leaders at @AbleGamers last week about the impact of accessibility in gaming communities. It was great to learn about the life changing work happening at AbleGamers.
Read our latest blog for a summary of the webinar: bit.ly/3XSGwQ9
Steven Weitz retweeted
We have a very exciting fireside chat with leaders at @AbleGamers today at 2 PM ET. We’ll be chatting all about the impact of accessibility in gaming. You will not want to miss it!
Steven Weitz retweeted
Thursday and Friday @cdspower, @steven_weitz and I trained 20 developers, many from major studios, to be come Certified Accessible Player Experience Practitioners, and today we did a talk and exercise for @oculus Bootcamp. I’m officially exhausted.
Hey, @RyanComics - totally random, but are you the same Ryan Smith who made this?
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Just finished #Pinkman - up there with the best $0.99 I’ve ever spent. Thanks, @BonzerKitten!
OK, there's an actual GPU singing the GPU song. This makes me happy. #PS5Share, #ASTROsPLAYROOM
#PS5Share, #ASTROsPLAYROOM I'm loving this GPU song... and I just found the lyrics in game :D
Back at ya, @yardleyart
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The Xbox Series - A Twitter Play in 13 Parts:
1/13
Gamer: How are you following up the #Xbox 360?
@Microsoft: The Xbox One!
G: You’re re-releasing the original Xbox?
MS: No, it’s a new console!
G: It sounds like it’s the first console...
MS: It’s our third!
12/13
MS: The Xbox Series S is only 60% the price of the Xbox Series X!
G: Wow. That’s a big cost savings! Name aside, it’s great to have such a cheaper alternative that will play the same games as the Series X with the same graphical fidelit-