Kate is the QA & Accessibility Director and COO at Deep Field Games, an indie studio based in southern New Zealand. She co-founded the studio alongside four other talented industry veterans in 2021. Some of her contributions for Deep Field Game’s current project, Abiotic Factor (aka “ABF”), include: QA, accessibility design, game design, textures for miscellaneous in-game items, and a bit of voiceover. She tremendously enjoys any opportunity to learn new skills in different disciplines, which allows her to pivot whenever necessary to help out in other departments as well as keep her day-to-day work pretty interesting.
She is particularly passionate about accessibility in games, and uses a combination of thorough research, direct community feedback, as well as her own lived experiences to help guide accessibility feature design. One of her core-held beliefs is that every game developer has the responsibility of making their games as accessible as they are able to with the resources that they have available. Games are always better when we can all join in.
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