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Handmade Seattle Lite	The West Coast's mini conference for systems programmers.	/images/hms/seattle-dark-mode.svg	event	Saturday December 6th, 2025	December 1st, 2025	One Bite Cafe (2-5PM)	1026 NE 65th St, Seattle, WA 98115	Fully Hybrid	In-person & online attendance options 3 days of technical talks & workshops Trade show with industry exhibitors Live coding sessions Networking opportunities	Schedule is Ready	Scroll further below to learn of our presentations!	name topic affiliation image Abner Coimbre The 2026 Roadmap Handmade Cities /images/people/abner.jpg name topic affiliation image Benjamin Thompson Math PhD turned Puzzle Designer Cornell University /images/people/thompson.webp name topic affiliation image Caspar Full-time Solo Gamedev Slow Rush Studios /images/companies/slow-rush-logo.webp name topic This is You Audience members demo projects	enable title description dates true Trade Show & Job Fair Connect with companies seeking handmade talent. Our trade show features booths from tech companies and studios looking for skilled low-level programmers. December 6-7, 2025	true	/newsletter	true	https://handmadecities.com/discord	true	mailto:submissions@handmadecities.com	August 15, 2025	true	year link 2024 /seattle/2024 year link 2023 /seattle/2023 year link 2022 /seattle/2022	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 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'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. "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.)