Guide:Communities

A little list of encouraging, supporting, jerk-intolerant Internet spaces.

• Glorious Trainwrecks
  The forums are pretty quiet, but the people are lovely and talk a bunch via comments on the games.
• ALT G's
  A Discord channel with a lot of Glorious Trainwrecks overlap.
• gamemaking.social
  An offshoot of ❇this place❇. It's a Mastodon instance, so it's a microblogging thing like Twitter.
  If you're interested in joining, and/or you're new to Mastodon, see: Guide:gamemaking.social
• Game Making Tools Forum
  Another offshoot of here. A new forum, which is also open to hosting subforums for any tools you're making.
• timetheft.social
  Invite-only Mastodon server, mostly the DOMINO CLUB crew?
• indiepocalypse.social
  One of a few 'indiegame' focused instances, but the only one that seems deliberately LGBTQ+ friendly. Not actually related to the Indiepocalypse game collections.

Maybe?

I haven't joined any of these, but maybe they're good?

• Elekk
  Mastodon instance. More game-player focused, but it's well moderated.
• Game Dev Galaxy
  'Discord group for gender-/sex-marginalized game devs making digital, analog, or experimental games. Different professions, skill levels, and styles welcome!'
• Gamedev Place
  Currently a Mastodon instance, but maybe more in the future? Seems more professionally focused then here?
  Actually I would not recommend this community. See: https://social.libre.fi/notice/9lc3iadTT8NFZhhkbQ and https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aras/102426826928659547 where the admin (and Unity developer) refuses to remove the account of a prominent anti-trans dickwad — rjt (talk)
• PeopleMaking.Games
  Another Mastodon instance. It's pretty new, so I don't know much about it.
• FreeGameDev.net
  Forum focused on open-source game making.
• intfiction.org
  Interactive Fiction-focused forum.
• One Hour Game Jam
  Make a game in an hour. Runs every Saturday. There's a Discord.
• Indiegames Online
  Anther new Mastodon instance, haven't seen much of them.