Since Gab is being frustrating I no longer really have any place to do content dumps and I'd like to be able to chat with people exclusively about game dev and I don't want to spam KIA2 with stuff even if people might be interested.
As I've often posted about I have done a huge amount of research into game dev and Blender in particular. Got an entire archive now of all sorts of techniques I've looked up so I'm putting out feelers seeing how many of you would be interested in learning about gamedev and 3D art especially but I can also just randomly shitpost about 2D as well depending on what people are wanting to do. It would also mean something a bit more interesting on this site beyond GamerGate 2.0 and politics.
What do you guys think? Worth it maybe? Let me know and yes the autism shitposting will probably include lots of GDScript stuff if anyone has any questions about that. People could also help each other in crafting their own perfect game rather than dealing with the neverending Sweet Baby Inc. clones. It would also be nice to have a place to dump troubleshooting on software that isn't reddit.
Edit: https://communities.win/c/AltTechDev
Made the community.
Quality tuition is pretty cheap, and general information is readily available.
A community with a decent number of members, built around the idea of sharing progress, getting feedback, playtesting and generally shooting the shit devoid of soyjacks sounds really good though.
Matrix would probably be my choice - essentially non-woke Discord with extra encryption.
Having some kind of chat backup would be great, my first thought is guilded even though that's not decentralised. I had problems with a minds offshoot of matrix and it's pretty weird I don't think you could get beginners especially to mess around with that sort of annoyance. It needs to be relatively user friendly options.
The scored sub is a great idea - something persistent and easy to find and use. I'd view chat as an alternative for regulars. In that vain, Element is pretty straight forward to use (for alt-tech). Haven't used guilded - how's it fair on the anonymity front?
Primarily, the visibility of Scored is the issue. I separate my CG/gamedev work into stuff I'd use for portfolio and throwaway work (speed sculpts, quick environments and code experiments) as to not dox myself. It's not a bulletproof solution however, and something with less visibility makes that dilemma easier.
I've been thinking about this mainly because of my frustrations with Gab because it's interfered with my ability to content dump and it seems like there's more of a community of gamers etc. here anyway who'd appreciate it more. Gab is kind of active and to give Torba credit he does try to keep the bots away I'm just a bit meh on all of it.
Yeah, had much of the same experience with Gab.
It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. I really like the idea of a place where like-minded folks can share resources and help each other along. There are plenty of springboards for woke creators, this could ultimately serve as something similar for our guys?
That, and to network. I'm sure you know how hard it is to find people to collaborate with, especially artists, without pronouns in their bio's.