UX Workflows – a Talk from SCG

This is a recording of a talk I did at SGC this October. The audience were mostly students and developers just starting out, so that's the level I put it on. In order to make this more accessible, I've also written a blog post accompanying the talk with some images to illustrate. I hope you'll... Continue Reading →

Game dev is not “young”

Because We’re reaching a point where digital game development is at least 40 years and counting - 60 years if you count Spacewar! - I think it’s time to acknowledge that the games industry can no longer be considered to be young. An argument that I hear quite a bit when it comes to game... Continue Reading →

Untapped Markets

During the entire Sweden Game Conference, two themes stood out to me. Untapped markets and a sustainable way to work and create products. The first part was particularly interesting. Women are around 50% of the audience for games now. There’s no denying it or waving it away. And women make up only 20% of the... Continue Reading →

Reading Old Game Design Books…

... and getting pissed off. Or perhaps not so much pissed off as concerned about what those books taught new (and old) game designers only 5 - 10 years ago. Every book except a very recently published one is pretty consistently placing the player firmly in the “he” compartment. I’m about to start reading a... Continue Reading →

Do Not Forget

It has been a while since GamerGate. In the industry, time has passed. There are companies and developers who no longer were part of that painful and horrific time. They reclaimed Pepe the Frog and have no idea what seeing that frog as an emoji in a conversation is stressful and anxiety inducing. They didn’t... Continue Reading →

Comfort Games

I've been at Sweden Game Conference all week. I did a talk on UX workflows that I'll get back to later on. I did however have several conversations with a bunch of women in the games industry or about to go into the industry. One of the things we talked about was comfort games that... Continue Reading →

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