---
title: "Handmade Seattle Lite"
subtitle: "The West Coast's mini conference for systems programmers."
image: "/images/hms/seattle-dark-mode.svg"
layout: "event"

# Event Details
event_dates: "Saturday December 6th, 2025"
registration_date: "December 1st, 2025"
venue_name: "One Bite Cafe (2-5PM)"
venue_address: "1026 NE 65th St, Seattle, WA 98115"

# Event Features
event_format: "Fully Hybrid"
event_features:
  - "In-person & online attendance options"
  - "3 days of technical talks & workshops"
  - "Trade show with industry exhibitors"
  - "Live coding sessions"
  - "Networking opportunities"

# Coming Soon Section
coming_soon_text: "Schedule is Ready"
coming_soon_description: "Scroll further below to learn of our presentations!"

# Initial Speakers
initial_speakers:
  - name: "Abner Coimbre"
    topic: "The 2026 Roadmap"
    affiliation: "Handmade Cities"
    image: "/images/people/abner.jpg"
  - name: "Benjamin Thompson"
    topic: "Math PhD turned Puzzle Designer"
    affiliation: "Cornell University"
    image: "/images/people/thompson.webp"
  - name: "Caspar"
    topic: "Full-time Solo Gamedev"
    affiliation: "Slow Rush Studios"
    image: "/images/companies/slow-rush-logo.webp"
  - name: "This is You"
    topic: "Audience members demo projects"

# Trade Show Information
trade_show:
  enable: true
  title: "Trade Show & Job Fair"
  description: "Connect with companies seeking handmade talent. Our trade show features booths from tech companies and studios looking for skilled low-level programmers."
  dates: "December 6-7, 2025"

# Call to Action Buttons
enable_newsletter: true
newsletter_link: "/newsletter"
enable_discord: true
discord_link: "https://handmadecities.com/discord"
enable_cfp: true
cfp_link: "mailto:submissions@handmadecities.com"
cfp_deadline: "August 15, 2025"

# Previous Events
show_previous: true
previous_events:
  - year: "2024"
    link: "/seattle/2024"
  - year: "2023"
    link: "/seattle/2023"
  - year: "2022"
    link: "/seattle/2022"

# Content Display
show_description: true
---

**Saturday Schedule (Seattle Timezone)**

- [2:00 - 2:30PM] *Snack and drinks*: order some food to support this family shop!
- [2:30 - 3:00PM] *The 2026 Roadmap*: Handmade Cities is [no longer](https://handmadecities.com/news/winding-down/) running conferences. Abner lays out his plans for a future of decentralized, offline meetups.
- [3:00 - 3:30PM] *The Multiplayer Sandpit by Caspar: How I got sucked into making a networked falling sand game.* [Caspar](https://www.slowrush.dev/)'s demo video is "A dramatic re-enactment of how briefly revisiting a childhood dream escalated into a full time obsession for 2 years (and counting). Featuring a custom engine written in Rust using Macroquad as a platform abstraction, with cross-platform and in-browser multiplayer."
- [3:30 - 4:00PM] *Untitled Cube Game: Explore the consequences of a very intuitive, but very deep, rule.* Demo video by [Benjamin Thompson](https://bgthompson.codeberg.page/). "Have fond memories of Bloxorz? Enjoyed what you played of Stephen's Sausage Roll? Interested in games with combinatorial explosions? We present a cube-rolling puzzle game that explores a single intuitive rule with a lot of consequences. Inspired by mathematics, and programmed from scratch in Zig."
- [4:00 - 5:00PM] *Audience Projects:* At every Seattle event we let members of the audience take to the stage and show off their creations, or discuss a programming topic near-and-dear to their heart. This could be YOU, so make sure to email `abner@handmadecities.com` and request an RSVP link.
- [5:00 - 8:00PM] *Seattle After Dark:* This is optional! Our tradition is to go out for pizza followed by drinks at the pub. During dinner we tend to get spicier with our takes on the software industry, and by the time we hit the pub all bets are off. (We remain civil all throughout.)