Feel free to link relevant communities here! When I think they’re relevant enough I’ll add them to this opening post.

Alternative game development communities:

Engines/frameworks:

Art and story:

Game- and industry news:

Modding, reverse engineering and preservation:

Game development jobs:

Things of note: The 2nd link in the list above is a relative link; as long as you’re on a Lemmy-instance, it should link to the right community relative from your instance. If you get an error saying ‘404: couldnt_find_community’, you will have to search for the community first. For example: /search/q/!gamedev@lemmy.ml/type/Communities/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1. You will get no results, but visiting the linked community should now work. It can take a little bit of time, and posts might not instantly show up. If it still doesn’t work, the linked instance might be blocked on your current Lemmy instance. I’d recommend asking your admins for support at that point.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Think there are probably enough general gamedev communities to be getting on with already tbh

      • Ategon@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yeah I think that brings it up to 5 now although ive been trying to avoid using lemmy.ml where possible, and both pineapplemachine and pawb are less active

        Figured might as well make one in programming.dev to match with the separate engines and then we can see if its active or not. Worst case it can be used as a space to direct people to one of the other ones

  • Nina@crystals.restEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    These are new, but there are other things listed here that seem new/not used yet so why not.

    I have gamedev at !gamedev@crystals.rest, which is aiming to be both progress, idea, team collecting, and classifieds.

    There is also pixel art at !pixel_art@crystals.rest, which isn’t much different than lemmy’s, but allows artists to list that they are taking commissions.

    In the same vein, I have lowpoly at !lowpoly@crystals.rest, also posting work but able to list commissions.

  • Spzi@lemmy.clickEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Great collection, thanks!

    The 2nd link in the list above is a relative link; as long as you’re on a Lemmy-instance, it should link to the right community relative from your instance.

    Also thanks for making it user friendly :)

  • TeaHands@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Great thread thank you! Think I’ve found most of these already but I’ll have to cross reference with my sub list to be sure.

    Love how we have this place, gamedev ON a furry instance, and then there’s also furry_gamedev but on a totally different instance 😄

    • NoxiousPluKOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I figured with how splintered a federated service can become, it might be essential to start a list like this. Feel free to suggest any others you find relevant!

      • hodgepodgehomonculusEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Honestly this seems like the biggest downside of federation. It makes sense for like furry_gamedev to have its own community, but having multiple general purpose gamedev communities seems like unnecessarily splintering. I wonder if Lemmy will either add a way to combine them on the user end, or for the community side to be able to link themselves together.

        The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of communities acting as entry points. Each one could act as a “node” which helps for redundancy in case one goes down, and if it only works one way then a community could remain separate if they really wanted to, but the larger community could still have posts from B showing up.

        • TeaHands@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          There’s all kinds of conversations going on about this atm but honestly I think a lot of it will just sort itself out naturally.

          Like, right now we have a crazy influx. People are joining, searching for a community, not able to find it so making their own. And the more new ones are being created every second, the less likely they are too actually get seen and followed and federated, so it’s a vicious cycle.

          BUT once user numbers stabilise and everything has chance to federate properly I think we’ll see people preferring to join an existing community than make their own as they’ll actually show up in a search. In cases where there are already a few one will just rise to the top over time.

        • NoxiousPluKOPMEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I don’t disagree yea; it is a bit problematic. When I started this one, I couldn’t find another one. I think this was the first Gamedev community, but perhaps the browse.feddit.de index was just incomplete at the time.

    • NoxiousPluKOPMEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Awesome! I’ve added it to the list (and joined)!

      I don’t use modern Unreal Engine myself but I’ve used the first one a bunch back in 1999 haha.

      • Drengr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Thats some OG Unreal Development - i didn’t even know the engine was open to the public back then, all i remember from that time is “Unreal Tournament” lol