Sponsors
Branding Sponsors
Activision
For more than 40 years, Activision has been changing the way people play. With a history of delivering iconic game changing experiences and beloved videogame franchises, including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Pitfall® and Skylanders™ — — our focus is to delight and engage our players around the world. The User Research team at Activision helps inform these experiences. Through our playtest labs and research, we listen to player feedback and partner with our teams to create amazing games and incredible content for fans.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
Social Sponsors
Amazon Games
At Amazon Games we’re actively developing and publishing a portfolio of original IP and high-ambition games and aspire to create compelling destinations to discover new games and in-game content. In line with Amazon’s culture of being customer obsessed, Amazon Games is proud to sponsor the #gamesUR Summit and support the distribution and dissemination of research best practices and user-focused methodologies to facilitate the creation of excellent gaming experiences.
Gold Sponsors
Microsoft Xbox Research
Xbox Research – redefining and driving a new level of customer-obsession through research, activation, measurement, and integration for Xbox and Xbox Game Studios.
Solsten
Solsten is advancing the human experience, empowering companies to build deeply resonating and healthier human-centered experiences. At the intersection of play, psychology, and AI, our suite of products gives companies the ability to understand and meet their audiences’ experiential expectations at every step of their journey—ushering in a new era of technology that is better for people, and brilliant for businesses.
Gamesuserresearch.com
Steve Bromley’s gamesuserresearch.com is the best place to learn how to apply games user research expertise throughout development.
Join him to learn how to become a games user researcher, and pair your professional expertise and passion to have a huge impact on the development of games.
For game developers, Steve also works with studios and publishers to integrate player insight from ideation to launch, combining creativity and data to create games that players love.
Learn more, find the Playtest Kit and get your own free career and games user research guides at gamesuserresearch.com.
UX is Fine
UX is Fine! provides world class UX and UI strategy, guidance, and direction to our publisher and developer partners. We integrate deeply into their development process, embed collaboratively with their teams, and work closely with UXR to shape and validate our work.
UXR is in our DNA. Co-founder Jason Schklar started his game development career at Microsoft Games User Research in 2001.
We are a studio that invests heavily in our people and processes, fosters a safe and collaborative environment, operates with integrity, and employs professionals who are game designers at heart.
Let’s make great games, together!
