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John Dickens
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Senior Accessibility and User Researcher at Tencent Games. Trying to make games more accessible for every player. Music, tech, adventure cycling nerd. Views my own, obviously.
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Saucony London 10K ✅
@specialeffect.org.uk
Me in running gear standing with two thumbs up and a medal around my neck in. I’m wearing a SpecialEffect running top.
July 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I promise I’ve been working and not just sitting on the beach the whole time I’ve been in LA.
Tencent America US office. Prominently features QQ (our penguin mascot) with a Tencent surfboard. Ferris wheel in Santa Monica with golden hour sunlight giving it a warm glow Sunset on against palm trees on Venice Beach. The trees are silhouetted in front of a hill backdrop in the distance where the sun sets.
June 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Truly brilliant exhibition at the Tate Modern - ‘Electric Dreams’. Digital art before it was digital, where artists pushed the boundaries of early computers and consumer tech to produce audio visual experiences that challenge how art is made and displayed. Right up my street.
8 CRT TVs in sync in a dark room producing glitchy, grainy, distorted images Close up of 2 CRT TVs with glitchy imagery, red, green and blue crystal-like clusters The image shows a framed art work by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi called Vitrine: Deep Into the Night. It is an image that depicts a building like structure, overlayed by a sheet of textured glass that distorts the image which gives a distorted effect.
May 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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My bank holiday weekend has involved a fair amount of chores but now I’m going to treat myself with a new adventure…
Boot screen for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 displayed on a large wall mountainedTV beside an Xbox One Series X; which is located near a Yamaha soundbar. Below sits a tv cabinet with vinyl records and bookshelf speakers.
May 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Had a blast at #GAConf and was proud to deliver my first talk there. Great to see old friends and meet some new ones. Until next time…
April 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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The Barbican, London, on the gorgeous Kodak Tri X 400 #35mm film. Taken with a trusty Olympus XA.
A plaza on the Barbican estate. The bright sun creates a high contrast scene between the white ground and the shadows of the people in the image. A man stands with a mobile phone on the right hand side of the image. There is an artificial lake in the background with relfections of the buildings behind it. Portrait orientation scene of brutalist architecture framed by deep shadows formed in straight lines. A person is walking in the background in the shadows.
April 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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👋🇸🇪
View from a window into a plaza with a ‘Sharkmob’ flag hanging from a flag pole. Blue skies and an old Swedish building in frame.
March 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Excited to hear about UKIE’s Raise The Game relaunch today! @ukieofficial.bsky.social
Snazzy looking conference room with screen that reads “welcome to the 2025 UKIE Members Day!”
March 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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So, this is the life…
Bottle of red stripe lager held in my hand. In the background is a beach - a blue sea and golden sands with a boat on the left.
January 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Season’s Greetings to you and yours.
A very strangely illustrated image of some sort of brown monkey esque creature clawing the back of some sort of polar bear esque creature - both of which have eerily human faces. Text at the bottom reads “Season’s Greetings” stylised like a Christmas card.
December 24, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Four games I've worked on
Astro Bot Nightingale Horizon VR Call of the Mountain Marvel Spider-Man 2
November 19, 2024 at 10:03 AM