I’ve actually been thinking lately that it would be worthwhile to talk game dev more at SB, in part to help motivate myself.
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One of my secret hopes behind posting about my level design work in the Quake thread is to see more stuff about hobby work. Dogs joins in with me in that thread, and I always love seeing thecatamites’ updates in his Let’s Horror thread.
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yeah i think it’d be sooo cute to have a little game dev island here… invite some people babes
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Is there a good place for video game news that’s more akin to what the latest Egg Console Switch releases are than about what’s going on with “famous” streamers and cash grab meme games?
I miss that old tiny cartridge account during the height of tumblr
these r weekly posts that meet ur criteria in a literal sense
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Oh this is good!
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is the EGG console stuff available on the US eshop??
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Hydlide is
Do you need anything else
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Yeap. They don’t do any additional translating though so whether you can get very far without having to tackle some Japanese text is up in the air from release to release.
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I’ve thought many times about starting a forum for like “computer art production and research” or something like that, but obviously I do talk about game dev here sometimes and in theory I would talk about it more if other people wanted to. The main thing about this forum is that it seems much more dedicated to discussing pre-existing games than making new ones—even if people do talk about making games on here sometimes it just seems like those posts get way less traffic and discussion and stuff. Obviously that could change though.
EDIT: I guess, thinking about it a little more, I realize like, when I say things about my own development activity on here or my ideas about game development or whatever, I’m never sure how much to think of the readership as “fellow developers” or just like “game-playing people.” If I say a lot of developer-focused stuff, I worry about making my posts kind of dry for people who don’t make games, and I don’t want to bore anyone.
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If someone is bored they can read a thousand other threads, post about your passion
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Hmm, well, okay, I guess that’s true. 
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yeah i absolutely gloss over your posts if i’m not up to reading them all but i’m v glad you’re here. it’s good for the forum imo to have people who are making
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i am not a developer but i find your posts about coding and game design extremely compelling
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I am not a game developer but teach on a game development course so I’m always deferent to what a practiced dev would say about things I have almost no direct experience of. Likewise I like the dev posts but just don’t have a lot to add without feeling like an impostor vaguely gesturing at my second hand knowledge. I’ve made games but not for a while and I doubt my experience would be much more than the average amateur. I know more about playtesting methodologies and user experience but that feels like touchy ground for discussion sometimes
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it is sometimes challenging to know what to say about posts about in-development projects. there are usually two things that can be said: [light compliment] or [Feedback]
i am also not nearly a good enough programmer to ‘talk shop’ at anything like a high level. i can talk about my borderline-idiot understanding of GML, but that’s of very limited use to anyone
there is more to talk about than just those things, and i know i’ve had much more interesting conversations with other game makers at events and such, but idk
remembering how little i enjoyed the little time i spent on tigsource forums now
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I seem to remember there being a thread for sharing updates about game development projects. It may be nice to crosspost anything from a topic dedicated to our projects into another thread where there’s more crosstraffic and it’s less uh jarring to share those sorts of compliments and reactions because we could probably count on the thread moving a little quicker thanks to several posters sharing their work instead of just one. It would also be a cool thread for people who aren’t involved in creating game stuff, just to gloss the output of our community in a single thread. I do something like this on occasion with the visual arts thread, though I don’t draw.
It would maybe also be a good idea to tag your gamedev threads with the gamedev tag, which is a new system that could be useful in the future if we actually tag things.
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I want to say, like, I feel like any input on these kinds of topics can be useful or interesting whatever your background! I know like, posting code or talking about your approach or whatever on a forum can be kind of fraught, because you might be afraid of looking silly or having someone dismiss what you’re doing or that sort of thing, but I guess like, at least speaking for myself, I don’t feel like there’s really any such thing as “bad code”—all code is good for something! I also feel like, if you don’t feel very confident, your ideas might be better than you rate them as—just because you might not be sure of the typical way to describe them or whatever doesn’t mean they don’t hold water. Especially in games I think that’s really true—there’s hardly anything truly “correct” in games. I love to see everyone’s code, I think code is a neat form of self-expression. ^^
I would be interested to know your ideas on those topics! I can’t speak for anyone else but I won’t try to tell you off or anything like that. My mom works in UX and I always think she has interesting things to say about it.
In theory I think like, if someone shares a technique they figured out, and then someone else comes up with an interesting variation on it or improvement to it or whatever, and then maybe the first person can build further onto that, etc., that can also be a nice sort of interaction that people can have around a development project. It would take people sharing their code though. 
Aww, thank you, that’s very encouraging ^^ Based on what people have said I’m going to try to worry less. I think on some level it’s intuitive to me that anyone who likes to play games would also think that how they work is interesting, so that there’s not really a need for this “developer/not developer” kind of dichotomy—I just know that in practice coding discussion strikes different people in different ways. km is probably right though that there’s not that much reason to fret about that too much in this kind of environment.
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briefly checked to see if there’s an extant feature or plugin that would make an “index topic” from a category but nope. however, if you start such a topic and post links to other topics as replies the auto-index at the top will populate with links attached to the OP
tags work kind of like unmoored subcategories, so just putting the topic in king of development should suffice but we can automatically apply the tag to king of development threads (can also auto-apply tags based on watch words)
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