For our 10-year anniversary we don’t have 2 keynote speakers, but 3! 3 people, living in 3 continents (America, Europe, Asia), having unique journeys in #gamedev & #ux that they will share with #GameUXsummit attendees. I hope that you’ll join us in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 12-13!! (link below)

Does anyone who was at the first @gameuxsummit.com in Durham 10 year ago have a funny or interesting anecdote that they want to share with me? Or at any Game UX summit actually. Opening the summit in less than 2 weeks and I wanna do a quick retrospective. Would love to share some of your memories 🥹

We can still get your ticket for the summit (or summit + masterclass). gameuxsummit26.com I hope to see many of you there, please let me know if you're planning to attend! #ux #gamedev (6/6)

I can't believe the @gameuxsummit.com '26 is in 3 weeks already! For its 10-year anniversary (TEN years 👀 ), the summit comes to Asia for the first time 😍 (and gets an amazing re-branding by no other than Alex Townsend). This is such an incredible milestone 🧵 (1/6)

#GameUXsummit ‘26 Call for speakers soon ending! You have until May 26th to submit your @gameuxsummit.com talk. #Gamedev case studies through the lens of #ux (in a broad sense) are favored. We also care about speaker diversity so please spread the word! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Call for Speakers - Game UX Summit 2026

Thanks for your interest in the Game UX Summit 2026! For its 10-year anniversary, we are thrilled to bring the summit to Asia for the first time, in beautiful Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on October 12-14 ...

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Congrats to @compulsiongames.bsky.social for their Peabody award win for South of Midnight! 🎉 Well deserved. 🧡 In this honor, sharing David Sears's very inspirational #GameUXsummit '25 talk in which he explains his creative direction journey for #SouthofMidnight 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gqO...

GUXS 25 | KEYNOTE: Love Brings You Home | David Sears

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The #gameuxsummit ‘25 videos are here and the call for speakers for the ‘26 summit in Kuala Lumpur Oct. 12-14 has started! Check it out below ☺️ #ux #gamedev

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The videos from the Game UX Summit '25 are now live! And we’re starting the call for speakers for the 2026 summit in Kuala Lumpur Oct 12-14 ☺️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=37lc... #ux #gamedev #gameuxsummit

Want to speak at the #GameUXsummit '26 for its 10th anniversary? The call for speakers is NOW! We value diverse perspectives so please spread the word! We hope that you'll join us in beautiful Kuala Lumpur on Oct 12-14 💕 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Call for Speakers - Game UX Summit 2026

Thanks for your interest in the Game UX Summit 2026! For its 10-year anniversary, we are thrilled to bring the summit to Asia for the first time, in beautiful Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on October 12-14 ...

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The videos from the Game UX Summit '25 are now live! And we’re starting the call for speakers for the 2026 summit in Kuala Lumpur Oct 12-14 ☺️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=37lc... #ux #gamedev #gameuxsummit

Game UX Summit '25 - Antwerp - Overview

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Save the date! 👀 #GameUXsummit ‘26 😁

I know we’ve been quiet for a while but we’ll soon be able to release the #GameUXsummit ‘25 videos and announce what’s up with the Summit ‘26… 👀 Stay tuned! 😉 #ux #gamedev

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Hello there👋 This is my very first post on Bluesky! Earlier this week, I successfully finished my first talk in my career @gameuxsummit.com. Many thanks to @celiahodent.com, GAMASTE, AP Hogeschool Antwerpen, and all sponsors for giving us the opportunity, and everyone who joined the event! 🙏

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After the awful covid years and multiple layoffs in our industry, organizing the #GameUXsummit in person again was a huge challenge. Thanks to AP University of Applied Science and Arts (Laura Herrewij...

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#GameUXsummit '25 was a blast! SO MANY GREAT TALKS (see gamaste.net/game-ux-summ...) I presented my research on how players' personal, social, and game-related factors impact 𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬. A huge thanks to the organizers! @gameuxsummit.com @celiahodent.com AP Hogeschool & Gamaste

Just wanted to share a historical moment (or canon event?) of listening to David Sears at #gameuxsummit

Not me showing appreciation to South of Midnight as a speaker at @gameuxsummit.com … just to have their creative director David Sears speak right after me! Please show that game even more love, its development journey is SO interesting. #GameUXSummit

Jane@invinciblejane.bsky.social · last yr.

Currently in Antwerpen Belgium for the @gameuxsummit.com! So far so good: interesting talks, weather is good, hopefully my 3h of sleep and anxiety won’t ruin it for me!

It’s a wrap for the #GameUXsummit ‘25! Thank you so much everyone and see y’all next year ☺️

Sometimes you may not know. So ask a consultant. Ask an expert what they know. (A recurring theme at the summit is: Find an expert, and ask them.)

1. Is this southern gothic? 2. Is this class struggle? 3. Is this esoteric talents? 4. Is this truth and hope? These are the pillars of the direction. If the feature or development isn't on at least 3 of these, it probably isn't something relevant enough to spend time on.

David talks about his growing up in the US south, and how that eventually led him to build South of Midnight.

'Sensitivity reading' is not about forcing DEI, censorship, judging, or woke/broke. It is about immersion, being memorable, avoiding backlash, and a virtuous cycle. It is about creating quality content. Like you would with historical projects.

Can you imagine making a movie about the French Revolution without a French historian? Or about northern mythology without an expert? An accessible website without including disabled people? Of course you would include an expert on the thing you are building. The same goes for culture.

This is already our last session at the #GameUXsummit… Our keynote speaker today is David Sears, creative director (most recently on South of Midnight) and writer. He takes us on a journey: “Life takes you to unexpected places, love brings you home”.

We now welcome on stage Jennifer Lufau, Authenticity consultant and Founder of @afrogameuses.bsky.social. She talks about “Demystifying Sensitivity Reading to create better games”. #GameUXsummit

Now at the #GameUXsummit we listen to insights from Artem Ivanov & Dmitrii Sokolov (user researchers at Wargaming on the World of Warship franchise). They talk about “Making sense of player satisfaction: Why it matters and how to measure it”.

It’s Pecha Kucha time at the #GameUXsummit! Our first PK speaker, Maria Amirkhanyan (Head of Gaming Division at Duamentes) wasn’t sadly able to join us because of extremely frustrating visa issues. But she recorded her talk “Make me stay, don’t make me play” so that we can still hear her insights.

First session of the afternoon at the #GameUXsummit: Colleen Macklin and Ben Van Buren, coming all the way from New York City (Parsons School of Design)! They talk about “Perception in Virtual Worlds: Psychology and design students collaborate to study user experience in videogames”.

Holger Wurst: Yes, I know, the y axis marker is missing.. Game UX summit audience: [big laughter] Those who know will know 😉😂 (#LabelYourGraphAxis)

Robin-Yann Storm@rystorm.com · last yr.

For their peers in the space, retention is going up. But for themselves, it's going down. That's bad, so let's fix it. (Also yes the Y axis marker is missing. He cannot share hard data, but the gist is clear)

Can you change the first time user experience of a game 7 years after launch? Let's find out in our next talk, featuring June's Journey. A hidden object game, free to play, on mobile, it's a flagship title for Wooga

Next: EEG or Not EEG, for World of Warships testing.