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This is a small interview (by my usual standards!) with Jiayu, a girl in China who runs MagiGamer, a business she started making custom buttons and controls for various gaming handhelds. Tech, but with a custom twist :)
She makes buttons for things like the Nintendo Switch, 3DS & DS handhelds, the Steam Deck and her recent favorite: AYN's Thor (as well as the Odin 3), and more.
I chatted to her a bit for some quotes to use in my AYN Thor article I shared here yesterday, but this is the full chat, only because I love the work she does and how she gives people an option to truly make a console unique for everyone. I thought it deserved to be shared :)
There's plenty of behind the scenes pictures of the effort she goes to, and detailed pictures of the handhelds with her buttons installed. I thought this was a fun little one to share, hopefully you like it too!
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For a moment I thought that you meant jacket buttons or something. You know, gaming -themed tiny buttons. ๐คญ Interesting.
Well now I wish that was a thing!
(Sorry for any confusion!!!)
Ah, no worries. It wasn't all that confusing when I read your comment. Your writing style is nice.
I agree that themed jacked buttons would be interesting. They would be tint versions of game controllers etc.