Community Clubhouse: Refactoring for Safety: Modernising Game Systems for Safer Play

Community Clubhouse: Refactoring for Safety: Modernising Game Systems for Safer Play

Tuesday, August 19, 2025 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM · 1 hr. (Europe/Berlin)
Stage 15 - Confex Level 2
Talk
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Player safety is not an add‑on; it’s a design decision. Recent research and field stories show that even codebases older than your youngest players can still offer clear consent options, responsive controls, and healthier social spaces.

Grounded in the core Safety by Design principles of provider responsibility, user empowerment, and transparency, this session links three practical angles to studios of every size. We’ll explore session‑bound consent prompts that keep lobbies moving, layered automated and human defences that head off trouble early, and live telemetry loops that surface safety signals for designers to tune cooldowns, reputation scores, and matchmaking. Whether you are shipping a brand‑new indie title or maintaining a decade‑old live service, each pattern treats safety as a peer to privacy and security and slots into your existing pipeline.

Target Audiences
Engineers and technical designers looking for concrete ways to integrate consent flows, moderation pipelines, and safety analytics into existing code. Product and program managers responsible for social or community features who need to balance player freedom with platform duty of care. Trust & Safety and community leads at studios of any size who want to retrofit proactive defences without stalling content updates.
Experience Level
Expert
Key Take Aways
Expect integration tips, migration stories from both indie teams and large publishers, and candid lessons that show where to start, how to measure progress, and ways to refine safety features without slowing your release schedule.
Session Type
Talk

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