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:
- Game Development at !gamedev@lemmy.ml
- gamedev at !gamedev@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
- Game Development at !gamedev@pawb.social
- Game Design at !gamedesign@lemmy.ml
- Voxel Game Development at !voxelgamedev@lemmy.world
- Furry Gamedev at !furry_gamedev@lemmy.ml
Engines/frameworks:
- Godot at !godot@programming.dev
- Godot at !godot@lemmy.ml
- Godot at !godot@foros.fediverso.gal
- UnrealEngine at !unrealengine@sh.itjust.works
- Smolpxl games at !smolpxl@lemmy.ml
- Amethyst game engine unoffical Lemmy community at !amethyst@lemmy.ml
Art and story:
- Pixel Art at !pixelart@lemmy.ml
- Worldbuilding at !worldbuilding@lemmy.ml
- CharacterDevelopment - A place for writers to create and grow their characters. at !characterdevelopment@lemmy.ml
- battlemaps at !battlemaps@sh.itjust.works
Game- and industry news:
- Gamingnews at !gamingnews@lemmy.ml
- Game Updates at !gameupdates@lemmy.ml
- GamingLeaksAndRumours at !gamingleaksandrumors@lemmy.ml
Modding, reverse engineering and preservation:
- Game Modding at !modding@suppo.fi
- GamePreservationists at !gamepreservationists@lemmy.ml
- REGames - Reverse Engineered Games at !regames@lemmy.ml
- retrogamers - pre 2010, Flash, emulated games at !retrogamers@lemmy.ml
- Modded Minecraft at !moddedminecraft@sopuli.xyz
- Xbox 360 Hacking and Modding at !360hacks@lemmy.ml
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.
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.