[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Is there a video game dev alternative to HN?
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       Ask HN: Is there a video game dev alternative to HN?
        
       That mirrors the collective expertise and lower noise ratio that
       exists here. Subreddits like /r/gamedev are mostly novice posts and
       people venting. gamedev.net mostly exists for posting questions.
       VFX/game art subreddits are really cool, though mostly exist to
       show off. It's good all of these places exist, and I'm not
       complaining about them. It's just that it splits the community into
       individual secs and there's little crossover (that I can tell).
       There are many disciplines that coalesce together to create a video
       game, and there are around 300,000 people working in the field.
       Where is the central meeting point?
        
       Author : eezurr
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2022-04-11 19:12 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
       | mc4ndr3 wrote:
       | The itch.io community.
        
       | jay_kyburz wrote:
       | There are some large private forums. I've had friends nominate me
       | a few times but.. well, I guess they don't think I have anything
       | to offer :)
        
       | swalls wrote:
       | Retro forums that focus on specific systems (eg, C64 development,
       | NES development, DOS development...) tend to be pretty good as
       | they draw people who are interested in developing for more
       | limited hardware and as such don't mind going deep on technical
       | topics. For more up to date discourse I'm not too sure. Maybe
       | TIGSource forums?
        
       | binarynate wrote:
       | I hang out a lot on /r/Unity3D, but you're right, it's mostly
       | novices (actually, one of my reasons for hanging out there is to
       | help newcomers). I think it would be great if someone created a
       | subreddit specifically for experienced / advanced game
       | developers. Moderating for quality would be a challenge, so there
       | would need to be clear rules and a handful of people willing to
       | moderate.
        
       | jstream67 wrote:
       | https://gamedev.net/
       | 
       | This was where I hung out 10ish years ago. It seemed to be the
       | place to be for indy game dev stuff at least. I'm honestly kinda
       | surprised its still around
        
       | avignome wrote:
       | I'm guessing you'd have more success connecting with working
       | engineers on Discord over any website...
       | 
       | Try https://discord.me/unreal
        
         | eezurr wrote:
         | Thanks, I've tried a handful of game dev. discords. They are
         | not designed to collect and organize information though, and
         | keeping up with chats is a huge chore.
        
           | teucris wrote:
           | I think the game dev community would value this. Could be as
           | simple as an HN clone with images...
        
             | DougMellon wrote:
             | https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
        
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