Stefan Widany
Lead Game Designer at Sleeper Games
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Widany is a Lead Game Designer with 12 years’ experience crafting smart, player-focused games from prototype to release while leading distributed teams at Sleeper Games. He has shipped titles including ---Red---Tether--> and Hyperspace Dogfights, led notable mod and jam projects like the Captain’s Edition for FTL, and consistently prototypes new concepts to explore gameplay space. Stefan emphasizes transparency, fairness, and empowering teammates with ownership, blending practical leadership with hands-on design. Based in Leipzig, he brings a humanities background in Arabic studies to his creative process, offering a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on narrative and player experience.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Arabic Studies, 1,9, Bachelor’s Degree, Arabic Studies, 1,9 at Leipzig University
English, German, Spanish, French, Arabic, Turkish
Github Skills (4)
spell10
subset9
effort9
roguelike8
Github contributions (5)
sleeper-service-CE/FTL-Captain-s-Edition-Spell-Checking-2016
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
A community effort to spell check the FTL Captain's Edition mod for the space-exploration roguelike game FTL by Subset Games.
Contributions:72 commits, 21 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years 8 months
spell-checkeffortgamesftlroguelike-game
sleeper-service-CE/FTL-Captain-s-Edition-Spellchecking-2015
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 PRs, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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