Thats GAME DEV all caps! 😄
@web-gnar here. I have decided after about a year of posting game development updates on my blog that Hive needs a proper Game Dev community that is active, authentic, and encouraging for users to share what they are creating.
It is important to have separate the game playing community, from the game Dev community. They are two different things.
I'm not sure video game development content should go into general art communities either. Let me know if im wrong.
I think video game development logs are the perfect content to be shared on hive blog-chain. Think about it, game dev has so much in common with Hive. Collaborative software creation, Art, music, storytelling, programming. A gold mine of great content to be posted on hive. Especially Game Jams.
Currently, these are the "game dev" communities on Hive.
None of these communities are active anymore, and the admins of the communities have not been active for over a year on Hive. I will tag them here, just in case I was wrong.
- @stuffbyspencer (last post Apr 3, 2021)
- @rockninja (never made a post)
- @edian (last post 2018)
- @getron (last post 2022)
- @gameinventor (zero posts)
Obviously, people in the past have tried to create Game Development communities on hive, but they have all fizzled out.
I am always searching for active game developers on hive and trying to communicate with them so that we can form a community. The active ones that I have found are admins of this new GAME DEV community that we have created here.
@smjn, @mproxima, @pewsplosions
If YOU know of any other active game developers on Hive, TAG them so I can reach out to them.
I write this post to share with the @OCD curators and the greater hive community to get some feedback.
I seek to incubate this new GAME DEV community within OCD and incentivize super high quality game devlog posts. This gives people a reason to both work on their game, and write about it publicly to get feedback!
He appears to still be very active on hive. @eliudgnzlz. He is dead right when he says its "important to have a community" when you are a game developer! Games take so much time and energy to work on! It's easy to get burnt out without community support.
Note on Game Jams
I think there is huge potential for Game Jams to be blogged about on hive.
Game Jams are events where game developers compete to create a game around a theme under a time constraint.
I think if we encouraged game jams on hive it could become something really cool.
We could also link our hive blog posts on our itch.io pages for Hive visibility.
If you look at websites like itch.io-- an indie game marketplace where game jams are hosted all the time by different communities: Imagine if the game jammers wrote dev-logs on hive to share and record their progress. Itch.io already encourages them to blog about their game so I think that is a great audience to explore onboarding to hive.
The GAME DEV community could host a game jam on itch and offer hive rewards.
Note on blockchain-games
It's important to nourish game dev on hive even when its explicitly NOT a blockchain gaming project. I think there's a huge problem with blockchain games at the moment in that they are not fun enough to attract people to use the blockchain (which is what they are designed to do, or at least make the number go up). Still, blockchain-gaming development logs would be awesome to read, just like non-blockchain game logs. The gaming community at large (at least the discords that i've explored) are VERY cautious of anything blockchain related.
Let me know your feedback and if the Hive community would enjoy community compilation posts about Game Development. I think its a no brainer but if I am missing something, let me know.
My job as the leader of this community will be to seek out new game developers and encourage them to contribute to the community. I will also be the one who writes the community compilation posts, for now. I want to keep the community stacked with trustworthy admins so that it never goes down like the other Game Dev communities did.
I know right now it's a small community but I am hoping over time, that will change because the potential is huge.
signed,
@web-gnar
