Charline Foch

So many new mutuals in the past few days, time for a pinned! 🌿 Hi I'm Charline, 30+, she/they (the latter is new hi) 🍂 Neurodivergent user researcher in the games industry 📖 PhD in games (designing failure into games) 🎨 Would love to go back to making stuff ✍️ Just getting into solo TTRPGs

If I had a nickel every time I received unsollicited pitch sales on LinkedIn telling me "hey Charline, you're a researcher, isn't research incredibly boring? Here is an AI tool to do all the research for you", I'd have way too many nickels. Sir, I happen to enjoy actually doing my job, you know.

Reminder that mental illness does not make people racist. Being racist to begin with, and WEEKS of the media scapegoating black and brown people and "the immigrants" for the riots and violence in France, however, will make a racist feel like he is entitled to pulling the trigger.

It's so damn dire out there. Support your favourite indies, your dedication actually helps them unlike whatever this AAA loop is

I hope every climate change denier in the UK gets devoured by the mosquitos that are somehow still alive mid-October (after September and October comfortably sitting at 20 degrees celsius or higher) and chose ME as their buffet of choice.

Playing Stardew Valley on my steam deck rather than laptop means accidentally watering doors every time I try to enter a building.

Going through my backlog of indie games and just finished Relooted - loved the mix between puzzles (heist prep) and super satisfying parkour, and learning a bunch of things about various African countries' history. Very curious what my colleagues in archeogaming would make of this one.

C'est 9 fois et demi la durée de l'emprisonnement de Sarko pour avoir négocié avec des terroristes pour financer sa campagne, et c'est 6 mois de plus que Marine Le Pen, qui a détourné 4 millions d'euros.

I fear Paralives might take over my weekend and be another game making me contemplate living in a tiny house in a tiny remote village (I can't drive).

I love how AI is so powerful and world-changing that we constantly need to be convinced to use it

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

All the Pikachus and some lovely hits and the Moltres I was secretly hoping for, goodness the hit rates on this set are really good (I usually never get anything WHAT)

Can't afford a house but I can afford to open Pokemon cards with my roommate (at retail) (scalpers can eat rocks)

What on earth did the me from 10 years ago do.

Games UXR is 50% "players don't read instructions" and 50% "and here is why they don't read *your* instructions specifically (they probably don't even notice them)"

The whole PlayStation ditching physical games debacle still has not convinced me to get a PS5, but it has convinced me to finally buy a dvd player (and go through my collection + the second hand ones I got this weekend).

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty UX researcher: What makes you say that? (bonus follow up: how does that make you feel?)

Starting the weekend on a good note with my copy of @furtiveshambles.bsky.social 's Ryne getting to my mailbox 🌸 might spend the day browsing through it with infinite supplies of tea and cake. Congrats to the team, I'll miss receiving the email updates!

When your job is all about research but it's time to brush up on the design side of things.

Come join the SJ Games team as our new Document Accessibility Specialist! We are seeking a detail-oriented person to ensure our digital documents are fully accessible and compliant with legal standards. bit.ly/sjgdaspdfjob

This game made me cry a little and also very hungry and you really really should play it.

All of this applies to games too, btw :)

Watch The Odyssey --> introduce mom to the other odyssey adaptation O'Brother --> introduce mom to video game music by having her listen to Where the Water Tastes Like Wine soundtrack pipeline completed.

One of the best, actually ACCESSIBLE games conferences there is.

My mom hates the smell of cheese, so me and my camembert have been banished to the garden :(

If I had a nickel every time I see someone on LinkedIn go "maybe this is what the next generation of AI tools needs to address" to solve simple problems like "we suck at putting all documentation in the same place so they are easy to access for everyone", I probably wouldn't be working anymore.

EA’s CEO got an $8 million raise thanks to how well Battlefield 6 performed — four months after the devs responsible for making the game got laid off. https://bit.ly/4yOMvb5

Why do I suck at gift-giving in games too.

375,000 people evacuated, major cities under threat, and tourists turned away. France has never had a fire fierce enough to generate a pyrocumulonimbus before. The largest devastation of land since WWII. But net zero is very expensive www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Looking for an animator to help us out for 2 weeks of guaranteed work. Possible to extend to 1 month. Must be proficient in Maya. Unity experience is a plus. Reach out if anyone is interested. Must be local to the LA area. Position is hybrid.

I mean if you ignore the dying plant, I kinda like my upgraded games and tcg corner (not pictured: a tea tray on the side with all my art stuff).

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

Are you a developer who has put a fishing minigame inside your non-fishing video game? Or are you considered a connoisseur of fishing minigames? OR do you have knowledge of how real-life fishing works and how it might translate to games? I would love to speak to you for a story please!

Always remember that loudly calling something shit and evil and bad still has power, however diminished in this era of shamelessness.

First Tennocon, first Tennoconcert, and Lullaby of the Manifold and This Is What You Are hit me just as hard as I expected.

Hype is rising.