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