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Queer Boardgames + Videogames @ Four Quarters

🎮🌈 LGBTQ+ LONDON PRESENTS: QUEER GAMES NIGHT @ FOUR QUARTERS 🌈🎮 Looking to make new friends in London's LGBTQ+ community? Join us for a relaxed evening of board games, videogames and arcade games at Four Quarters Elephant Park. Whether you're coming on your own or with friends, games are simply the icebreaker—our welcoming community is what keeps people coming back. ✨ What to Expect 🎲 Casual board games and party games 🕹️ Multiplayer favourites like Mario Kart, Tekken, Smash Bros and more 👾 Free-to-play videogames in our reserved event area 🎮 Classic arcade machines throughout the venue 🤝 Friendly hosts and a welcoming LGBTQIA+ community 💜 Free to attend 👋 New Here? Many people come on their own, so don't worry if you're arriving solo. From 6:30pm, grab a name tag and come and say hello. One of our hosts will happily introduce you to people and help you settle in. 📍 Event Information Four Quarters Elephant Park 20 Ash Avenue, London SE17 1GQ 🕡 From 6:30pm (venue closes at 11pm) 🍔 Feel free to bring food or order a takeaway. Drinks and arcade tokens are available from the bar. 💜 Help Keep LGBTQ+ London Growing LGBTQ+ London is run entirely by volunteers. While our events are free to attend, donations help cover Meetup fees, equipment and the costs of running our community. If you'd like to support us, please speak to one of the hosts or use the donation details below. Name: Mark Geer Account number: 03450947 Sort code: 04-00-04 Ref - Donate 📲 Stay Connected Please RSVP if you can, and join our WhatsApp community for future events and updates: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GYxo1GonGIbIvLlS6CpG8S We'd love to see you there! 🎮🌈

Brixton Board Games at Otter Chaos Board Game Cafe

***\*Brand New Brixton Board Game Cafe\**** **Tuesday Social Mixer Games** There will be a £5 entry charge for the whole night. Come with friends or alone, and join in with one of the games we'll be fully teaching and running through. Turn up and we'll help you find a group and game from our extensive library of 500+ games. Beginners very welcome! New? Ask at front for Seamus or Kyle and we’ll help you find a game. A stone's throw from both Brixton mainline and underground stations, Otter Chaos has over **500 games** for you to play. See photos to preview our games. Bring your family, a couple of friends, or the whole gang for a wonderful time playing anything from the silliest of party games, to the most involved heavy strategy games. Whilst you're playing you can enjoy our wide range of soft and alcoholic drinks—including a wide range of cocktails. And feast on our delicious handmade sourdough pizzas—with vegan options and gluten-free bases available on request.

NSLondon 2026.5 at Fresha

Join us for our next NSLondon hosted by Fresha! We have two great talks lined up, plus time to chat and meet others in the community. We can’t wait to see you there! RSVP early to secure your spot. If your plans change so you can’t make it, update your RSVP so others can attend. 💬 **Talks**: **Phil Pegden** — *“Teaching My Dog To Fly”* This talk will focus on RealityKit on Apple Vision Pro and show how easy it is to use - even from the perspective of an amateur game developer. You will learn about how different components of RealityKit can come together to make a game. **Alex Ozun** — *“Effect Systems as an alternative to DI and Unidirectional Architectures”* Swift apps depend on side effects such as disk I/O, networking, randomness, clocks, and concurrency to provide useful functionality. While essential, side effects make code harder to extend, customise, and test. Today, side effects are typically managed with DI libraries and opinionated architectural frameworks. These approaches often require significant restructuring of code, introduce invasive scaffolding and abstractions, and sometimes force code into unidirectional data flow, fragmenting logic into disconnected parts. This talk presents a powerful alternative: swift-effect: [https://github.com/Alex-Ozun/swift-effect](https://github.com/Alex-Ozun/swift-effect), an architecture-agnostic effect system that makes side effects controllable, composable, and testable while keeping application code linear and easy to reason about. 🕓 **Schedule**: 6:30 PM Arrival and check-in at reception. Food and drink will be provided. 7:00 PM Presentations start 9:00 PM Continue the conversation at a pub nearby **Check-in Process**: Arrive at 6:30 PM to complete the check-in process at our reception. Provide your full name and mention the NSLondon event to be signed in. Ensure your Meetup profile has your **full name** or send it to us in a private message at least 48 hours before the event. If you need mobility assistance, let us know at least one day in advance. 💎 **Acknowledgments**: We'd like to thank Fresha for their generous support in hosting this event. **NSLondon** is a community-driven group and needs your support! Contact us for information about venues, speakers, or sponsorships. Feel free to reach out with any questions. See you there! Please read our [Code of Conduct](https://nslondon.com/coc).

Monday games (beginner friendly)

Come and play board games! Join us for tabletop board and card games such as Just One, Colt Express, Saboteur, Potion Explosion and Wingspan. Monday nights are aimed at welcoming players who are new to modern board games. We always try to make sure that someone is happy to teach games and welcome new people on the night, so don't worry if you're not sure what to play or who to sit with. We don't charge a fee for attending the Meetup, but you will need to pay the venue's game session fee of £8 per person (unless you have a Gold or VIP [Ludoquist membership](https://www.theludoquist.com/collections/membership-2022)). Please arrive by 18:50 in time for everyone to get into groups for the main games to start at 19:00. We will start arriving from 18:30 if anyone wants to join early for short games and chat. All attendees are expected to read and follow [our Code of Conduct](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qnLRLEV6whNYpiBu1mqsBaI6CjhbsC6Ersgwj0BCMSg/edit?usp=share_link) and [our Meetup Rules](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QorSIT3I3YA70ClL825cpMlHWWehpiVrrisy_J6zjFE/edit?usp=share_link). Please remember to update your RSVP promptly if you can't make it and please don't attend unless you are confirmed as attending. Feel free to ask questions in the event comments, or direct message one of the hosts. You're also invited to [join our Discord server](https://discord.gg/rWh8aSA) for game related chat and for arranging games outside the Meetup events.

Sunday Evening Board Games at St John’s Tavern, Islington

Wednesday Night Gaming!

Come and play board games! We play all types of games on a Wednesday night, ranging from social deduction and lighter games to heavy euros and complex strategy titles. Beginners are very welcome, we'd love to see you! We'll always welcome you on the night and make sure we get you into a game, and we have plenty of players on hand happy to teach the rules to different games - so don't worry if you're not sure what to play or who to sit with. We don't charge for attending the Meetup, but you will need to pay the Ludoquist's game session fee of £8 per person (unless you have a Gold or VIP [membership](https://www.theludoquist.com/collections/membership-2022)). We start arriving from 6.30pm if anyone wants to join early for short games and chat - please do try to arrive by 6.50pm, so we have time to discuss who'd like to play what, in time for the main games to start at 7pm. All attendees are expected to read and follow [our Code of Conduct](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qnLRLEV6whNYpiBu1mqsBaI6CjhbsC6Ersgwj0BCMSg/edit?usp=share_link) and [our Meetup Rules](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QorSIT3I3YA70ClL825cpMlHWWehpiVrrisy_J6zjFE/edit?usp=share_link). Please remember to update your RSVP promptly if you can't make it, as that really helps us with organising games on the night - and for similar reasons, please don't attend unless you are confirmed as attending! Thanks, looking forward to gaming with you :)

Clapham London Indies Pub Night

The monthly indie pub night is relaxing social with other indie game devs in London. Chat about all things game/tech related, make new friends and test out some demos from community members. Look out for the group with laptops and tablets out. This event is for everyone who making games from students and hobbyists to industry professionals. And if you’ve got something to show bring it along! We now have TWO evening meetups each month in different areas of London. Venue: https://www.thethieves.pub/

UKTV x BBC Tech Meetup - Connected TV Development October 2026

Join us at UKTV's offices in London on Thursday 22nd October, from 5:30pm for an evening of talks on developing applications for smart TVs, set-top boxes, streamers, and games consoles. Doors will open at 5:30pm and the talks will kick off at 6pm. Big thank you to UKTV for volunteering to host this event. RSVP is open! **Please note this event will not be streamed, only sign up if you will attend in person.** **Please bring ID with you for entry into UKTV's offices, and make sure your Meetup profile includes your full name, otherwise you may be refused entry.** You can find out more about our meetups, including our Code of Conduct, on the BBC website - [https://www.bbc.co.uk/techmeetup/code-of-conduct](https://www.bbc.co.uk/techmeetup/code-of-conduct). We have a culture of respect and kindness, and a zero-tolerance policy for Code of Conduct breaches. Please raise breaches with the Meetup facilitators, or UKTV staff can raise breaches via the Call It Out process - [https://uktv.workvivo.com/hashed/DOQjYBbAXB](https://uktv.workvivo.com/hashed/DOQjYBbAXB). **Agenda:** **5:30pm - Arrival** **6:00pm - Talks Begin** **Arun Krishnamoorthy, BBC -** The final bastion: Live TV in the attention economy **Jonathan Ingram, UKTV -** Adblocker Detection **Kostakis Bouzoukas, Amazon -** Vibe Coding the Big Screen: Supercharging TV App Development with Amazon ADBT **Gary Carpeter, UKTV -** Dive into U **Ed Morrish, BBC -** If you wish to make an Apple TV app from scratch, you must first invent the universe **7:25pm - Post-talk networking** **8:00pm - Venue closes**

Walk & Talk - Richmond Park

These casual meetups are all about game devs walking and talking about making games. This time we will gather at 11:00 AM outside Richmond station, then walk to the park, walk around there for a bit (maybe around 6 miles depending on how we're feeling) and then back to Richmond for a pub or cafe at the end. So 7-8 miles total. Richmond park has decent facilities so there will be a couple of toilet & cafe stops. If we're lucky, we'll see the start of some Autumn colours in the park. There will likely also be deer.

Board, card, dice and tile games night at my place and online

Hi everyone! If you like to play modern board, card and dice games, and to meet new people, then join us for these online game sessions for as long as you like The host will bring the games (though is open to playing your own if you have them) and will teach you how to play them if you don't know already. All you need is an online computer or tablet with a modern web browser, front-facing camera and microphone. You work late? No worries - you can come along any time. Please write in the comments what time you expect to be available from, so we can try to avoid anyone having to wait alone for long. We are a relaxed and friendly group, made up of both natives and foreigners, of locals and those living further afield, happy to welcome newbies and regulars. Events are free to attend, but if you would like to contribute towards the costs of running of this group, feel free to buy the host(s) a drink of their choice, for which they'd be very grateful. This saves money that can be put towards the Meetup subscription fees and buying the games that we all play. Don't forget to join our group on Facebook for games news, articles, memes, gossip and banter: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Tabletop.Gamers.London.Docklands

Board Games at Cabbage Patch, Twickenham

Join us for board games and drinks at the Cabbage Patch in Twickenham. We play a wide range of modern board and card games and typically start the evening with some light party games before getting into other favourites. All are welcome, please come and say hello. This event has a chat group, you’ll get an invitation to join it once you register. To find us: Head to the back of the pub to the restaurant area. There is no charge for the event but it helps maintain our use of the space if people buy food and/or drink from the restaurant.