IGDA Helsinki Presents:
November Meetup with GRUX SIG
14.11.2023
Happy November!
It’s less than two weeks until our next IGDA Helsinki Meetup. This time we are joining forces with the amazing GRUX SIG! We will have talks focused on User Experience from two wonderful speakers. Please see further below for more details on both our speakers and GRUX SIG as a whole~
Wanna showcase your game at our Demo Corner? Sign up here! 🕹️
Chat Corner is available for everyone to join for however long of a duration! 💬
Have a great start to your November and see you at Maxine! 🤩
Games Research and User Experience Special Interest Group (GRUX SIG) Finland brings together everyone interested in user experience design and research in games in Finland. Their goal is to raise the UX maturity of the industry by sharing knowledge as well as to ensure everyone has the language and the tools to ensure their games create the desired experiences for the players.
Jasmin Dahncke
Driven by a strong passion for User Experience and Accessibility, Jasmin has worked for over a decade in the games industry and is looking to transform the way we work by helping studios and the game development community as a whole to nourish and maintain a user centric design culture that creates experiences accessible to all.
Talk Abstract: Case Study - Blind accessibility in open world games
Emma Varjo
Emma is a firm believer in the maxim "Leave the world a little better than you found it". She lives by it by creating the best user experiences for the games and products as well as the employee experience of the people creating said experiences. Through the same principle, she is committed to sharing her learnings with the game development community at large, so we can make memorable experiences for all, and have fun while doing so.
Talk abstract: We all care about our players and want to create the best games, so why do we need to talk separately about UX or "player-centric cultures"? This talk is a brief primer to the user-centric approach UX and other great designers use in all their work.
WHAT:
IGDA Helsinki November Meetup x GRUX SIG
WHEN:
14.11.
Doors open at 17:00
Seminars start at 18:00
Demo and Chat Corner open at 17:00 (break during seminars)
WHERE:
Maxine, Kamppi shopping center, 6th floor (Elevators can be found on the E-floor, between Jungle Juice Bar and Rax).
Maxine is wheelchair accessible! There's a few steps at the entrance, for that please ask security at the cloakroom for a ramp.
BUT I WANNA DEMO MY GAME:
If your game is awesome and you'd like to demo it, sign up here!
TL;DR:
- November Meetup on the 14th
- Together with GRUX SIG
- Doors open at 17:00, seminars start at 18:00
- Chat and Demo Corner are open!
