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Making accessible audio navigation tools for video games!
Weird and wonderful PhD Researcher with ADHD. Nerdfighter. Proud West Midlander lost in Bristol. Mon the Biff. St Helens RFC and McLaren 🔴⚪🟠

Neighbour to all ♥️

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Made a fleeting visit to the Access Bristol Accessibility Accelerator on Saturday! Sorry to those I missed, I unexpectedly had to be absent, however managed to catch some fantastic talks, demos and people.

Super inspiring stuff seeing folks unite over inclusive accessible design!

#AccessBristol
Luke takes a silly selfie of half of his face. Overlayed is a poster for the Access Bristol Accessibility Accelerator Event. Details found at accessbristol.org A device that simulates using a White Cane for navigation in VR environments. It is plugged into a laptop showing a Unity Game Engine scene. Presentation Slide showing an isometric video game. Text reads "Build Core Systems into Game Engines to Provide Accessibility. For Example, All Route Finding in our engine provides a spatial audio source for players to follow for navigation."
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Had a lovely time bringing out my first ever music gear today to jam for our wonderful 3rd years testing out broadcast gear!

These two are both around 14 years old at this point and very much kickstarted my audio career. I seem to have swapped them for 7 strings and blast beats these days, mind...
Luke's first acoustic guitar covered in LOTS of stickers, and also a homemade hand painted cajón drum with an unfinished self portrait on the front.
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Movember session 2!

12.08km hike to and around Blaise estate and Blaise Castle!

15.1km for Movember so far

Link here!

movember.com/m/13779640?m...

#Bristol
#BlaiseCastle
#Movember
Luke and Meg take a selfie in an autumnal forest Blaise castle, a gothic castle with 3 turrets against a cloudy blue sky. A mystical, foresty collection of tall pointy trees and vivid yellowy green leaves against a sunny blue sky Ominous tree roots bobbling along the forest floor like bony fingers
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Today's #Movember proof of sweat. A slow 3km today which, for a computer scientist with a desk job and a dodgy hip that worsens in the cold, is not too shabby. Onwards!
Luke and his girlfriend Meg take a selfie while out on a run Luke's running stats: 3.02km in 26:26 time, average pace 8:45 a kilometre, burned 203 calories.
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Hey friends!

I'm gonna be running and walking 60km (with a moustache) for Movember!

You can donate, but it's more for mental health awareness for me.

Check in on each other. The world is fucked up at the moment, so tell your fellow humans you love them ♥️

movember.com/m/13779640?m...

#Movember
Luke taking a selfie giving bombastic side eye and showing off his moustache. Luke taking a selfie throwing two fingers to the camera and showing his moustache. Luke out on a run pulling a silly cool guy pose where he has one leg in the air, and two sets of two fingers up to the camera.
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Apparently it's Halloween!
Luke stood outside dressed as a low budget scarecrow. He has rosy circles and stitches painted on his face. He wears pumpkin patterned dungarees and a beige plaid shirt. He is ordained with bags of sweets and a red capped mushroom
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Today's office brought to you by 'Lu Le Petit' cookies and the album Blue Garden by Delta Sleep
Luke holding a delicious chocolate chip cookie up against a laptop screen. overlayed text reads 'posh cookie and writing in the office kind of day today. How is your day going?'
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Taking names for our new Bristol skellyboi...
A shiny skeleton sat in a camping chair with a Tarquins gin cup. It's wearing a bucket hat and waving.
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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It arrived.

#Pizzamas
#PizzaJohn
#DFTBA
#Nerdfighteria
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
Luke poses with his hands in his pockets. He wears a Pizzamas t-shirt. The graphic shows a muscular red being with its arms crossed. It's head is a Pizza John's face in a loveheart. Next to it, it's son stands peering out from behind. Text on the shrit reads "Don't ever talk to me or my son or his pizza ever again".
October 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Potentially the most cursed art I make for #Nerdfarters on Day 9 - Pizza John Plush Keychain

My Photoshop skills are for sale. I wholeheartedly recommend you find someone else, though.

@nerdfarters.bsky.social
#DFTBA
#PizzaJohn
#Pizzamas
Luke's face and torso Photoshopped onto a Pizza John Plush Keychain. It's cursed.
October 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#Nerdfarters Day 7: Views Shirt.

Here are my shirts. Here I am wearing them for views.
A grid of 9 photos of Luke wearing different shirts. Shirt pattern descriptions: 1) Patchwork triangles 2) Vibrant celestial bodies 3) Small checkered 4) Solid blue 5) Small blue and orange flowers 6) Leafy Tropical 7) Tarot Cards 8) Hawaiian 9) Koi Carp and Suns
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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I feel like my low budget, speed coding approach to #Nerdfarters this year might be making me better at prototyping, is producing some seriously cursed art.
A stretched picture of John Greens face with the words 'Happy Hank Stupid' next to it.
October 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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#Nerdfarters Day 4 and 5 in one!!!

Leaning tower of Pizzamas Jenga meets a bunch of things you'd find alongside the road in nerdfighteria immortalised as web art? Heck yeah I got u. Live on my website!

citesandsounds.com/nerdfarters/...

#P5JS
#DFTBA
#HankAndJohn
#Jenga
#Nerdfighteria
October 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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#Nerdfarters Day 4 - Draw Ham Can John (you have to do a bad job)

Oh wait... Hank and John??? Well this is bad...

(I am playing catch-up as I had Freshers flu... More to come!)

#DFTBA
A drawing of a Can of Ham and a toilet (colloquially known as The John.) drawn in Sharpie.
October 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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#Nerdfarters Day 3 - Taylor Swift Weather

Funnily enough, I am currently ill and under the weather. Conversely, it's more #p5js art today with TaySway's lyrics floating with the clouds!

Available at:
citesandsounds.com/nerdfarters/...

#TaylorSwift
#P5js
October 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Mobile users, it is pure chaos. I will try to fix it later when these cold and flu meds have kicked in 😅
Luke's Goof for Good digital art project for NerdfArters. Sadly, he's done a bad job making it responsive and it's bugging out on mobile.
October 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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#NerdfArters Day 2: Goof for Good!

Jumped over into #p5js for a little web sketch session today!

Haven't played around in p5.js for a while. For any folks who want to get into making digital, procedural, code-based, then I would fully recommend checking it out!

p5js.org

#WebArt
#Processing
October 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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#Nerdfarters Day 1 - Pizza John don't lift your pencil.

Starting off with a collaborative effort from this evenings pub quiz team (aptly named Honk and Bonk). None of them are Nerdfighters. ALL of them however, were committed to the bit.

We came 4th out of 7. Not our best show.

#DFTBA
#Pizzamas
4 one-line drawings of Piza John on a quiz sheet. None of them are particularly good, but are artistic in their own right. An overlayed snippet shows the Quiz Team Name 'Honk and Bonk'.
October 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Taking a small breather this afternoon for some musicking.

Today's recipe needs 5/4 chonk, 4 part harmonies and some sus(pended) chords sprinkled on top.

#Music
#MathRock
#AudioRecording
#Cubase
An Aston Spirit condenser microphone on a stand in front of an open Cubase project.
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Skate. is a wonderfully silly little game. Hoping more accessibility features come later down the line as they're a little thin on the ground currently, mind.

#Skate
In the game Skate, Luke and a friend stand on top of metal poles atop a concrete bridge support in the sea. Luke is posing with his hands in the air. His friend is flapping like a bird. In the game Skate, Luke and a friend are flying spread eagle through the sky while their avatars are facing each other. The sun sets behind skyscrapers in the background. In the game Skate, Luke and a friend are soaring through the cityscape sky while pulling a Christ Air.
September 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Told this dude at the garden centre a real rib tickler of a joke.
Luke dressed very autumnal and sat on a bench next to a decorative skeleton the same size as him (around 5ft 11). The skeleton has its arm around Luke. Luke is pointing his thumb to the skeleton and they both look like they're laughing.
September 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Ah man, it's good to be back (in autumn).
A laid table with a pumpkin table cloth, pumpkin plates and pumpkin napkins. A warm casserole pot shaped like a toadstool sits next to freshly made sliced bread and butter.
September 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Playing around at data visualisation in #Unity today

Capture timestep, player position and landmark data in JSON format (for stats later!)

Use a line renderer to show the relationship between player locations in relation to landmarks across the session

#DataVisualization
#Unity
#GameDevelopment
September 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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New headshots for the new year!

Would you believe this dude sat in his Chelsea Peers dog pajamas, ate a bag of gummy worms and coded a super cool accessibility tool in #UnityEngine for 6 hours today? Me neither.
A low-key sassy headshot of Luke from the chest up.
September 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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We're officially back!

New academic year is kicking off and campus is buzzing with pseudo-autumnal delight 🍂

Looking forward to a big year of audio accessibility, inclusive research and making a racket as often as possible.

#PhD
#UWEBristol
#MusicTechnology
#Aceessibility
#InclusiveDesign
A very smiley, sun-blessed Luke takes a windswept selfie standing underneath a UWE Bristol Arched Banner. He points up to the arch.
September 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM