• EldritchFeminity
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    8 months ago

    You could do Game Jams and the like. All the fun of making games without the horrible pay and working conditions!

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      8 months ago

      That does sound fun. Work used to have internal game jams but we don’t do that anymore (to hell with morale, or learning the tools we’re building, profits only!). I should look into some, do you have any particular recommendations?

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        8 months ago

        Unfortunately, it’s not something I ever got into myself. I wanna say itch.io has them fairly frequently? But I haven’t looked into it myself.

        My first thought would be looking into communities of like-minded people (local if you’re lucky enough). I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of the Bloodborne PSX demake or Bloodborne Kart (which was supposed to release a few months ago before it got DMCA’d, RIP), but the lady behind those is a former industry dev who streams her work on Twitch and has a Discord that has multiple channels dedicated to game dev stuff. I feel like that would be the kind of place to hop into. Her name on Twitch is b0tster if you wanna check her out.