Game Developers Stockholm

Time for the first meetup for the autumn 🙂
This meetup is at Game Town in Stockholm.
We also have a Discord now, join us: https://discord.gg/Jw2Ykv84

Agenda
17:30 Light food and drinks is served
18:00 Introduction

18:10 Talk: Think in Diamonds - Design Thinking as a Survival Tool in Tough Times - by Magda, producer and coach.
Design Sprints were the hot stuff 7-8 years ago. Magda will get into what they were, the reasons why they disappeared and how we can bring the good parts of them back to guide our teams through tough times.

18:35 Talk: Presence in Practice: Affinity vs. Contrast in Video Game UX - by Ahmed, UX Director.
In 3D games we see many types of user interfaces. In this session you will learn what they are, and how to best select which type of interface should be presented to our players depending on the player's level of 'presence' while playing your game. You will see a case study covering a fictional abstract AAA open world game realised for this talk and how the UI is structured from the ground up while best respecting immersion in our game world and giving the game's core systems room to breathe. You will also learn how to apply this process to your current game project.

19:00 Short break
19:10 Talk: Interactive Storytelling with Ink - by Pontus, game developer.
Discover Ink, a narrative scripting language designed for writing branching dialogue and interactive stories. Beyond narrative games, Ink works as a flexible scripting layer for any project where you want to separate dialogue or high-level commands from the underlying code. Can easily be integrated into game engines like Unity, Godot, and Unreal, making it a powerful tool for both writers and developers.

19:35 Talk: The anti-woke mob found KreatureKind (aka we have GamerGate at home) - by Anna, game developer.
During the summer of 2025, wholesome cardbattler KreatureKind was targeted by an online mob of "anti-woke" influencers and keyboard heroes, who turned the comment sections into cesspools. This is the story of what happened, and what we can learn from it.

20:00 Mingle and last beer at Game Town
20:30 Continue the mingle at a nearby pub (Gröna Jägaren)

SPEAKERS:
Magda is a producer and coach who has guided teams in the game industry from concept to launch. Passionate about collaboration, she helps artists, designers, and engineers unlock their collective creativity and build resilient ways of working together. Outside of production, she teaches yoga and explores the intersections of games, creativity, and well-being.

Ahmed has been designing and coding user interfaces since 2005 and has worked in games since 2013, contributing to titles like Killzone: Shadow Fall, Horizon Zero Dawn, Battlefield, and Star Wars: Battlefront. He later served as UX Director at Ubisoft Stockholm and as Content Director at Ubisoft’s Global Creative Office. Today, he runs his own consultancy, Ludo Hobo, focusing on UI technology, design, art, and leadership. He is also a public speaker and teaches Game UX design at Future Games.

Pontus Wittenmark is a game developer and instructor in the .NET space. He loves making narrative-heavy games using C# and Ink, such as "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack"!

Anna "Anaka" Högberg Jenelius is an independent game developer and consultant with 14 years of experience in the industry. Through their games and initiatives such as Link In Bar, Anna is detected to making both the industry and the games themselves more diverse and inclusive.