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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1915905
OP posted their unpopular opinion that game devs shouldn't be using their development time on making games accessible for people with disabilities.
But check out the top comments, which have turned into basically a handy checklist of all the simple accessibility features we can easily add to our games!
Thanks, OP 😄
Sorry in advance
Since Lemmy is a terrible influence, I’ve been convinced to give RSS another go as a means to get at the news that interests me interesting stuff that I’d otherwise miss. It’s actually working surprisingly well, so I thought I’d share some gamedev-specific resources that I’ve subscribed to so far.
My current approach for the feed is to subscribe to basically anything that looks interesting, then prune it later if it turns out to be no good or be too spammy. So I’d very much appreciate suggestions of blogs, magazines, video channels, podcasts, whatever is RSS-able!
READING MATERIAL
Magazines
Blogs
WATCHING & LISTENING
Podcasts
I don’t really do podcasts but would like to get into them more, so any recommendations for this section very welcome!
Videos
Did you know you can still subscribe to YouTube channels via RSS? This should help with the problem of YT trying to decide what we actually want to see, versus what we’ve literally told it we want to see. So far I’ve RSS-followed:
Plus a couple of devlog channels by members of this community that I’d like to make sure I don’t miss:
If any of you reading this have your own devlog channel, please share, I’d love to check it out too!
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For anyone thinking of joining the RSS revolution, I’m trying out Inoreader which I’d seen recommended a fair bit around Lemmy. Not too sold on it yet, but the free plan is a decent enough start.
interesting stuff that I’d otherwise miss
TL;DR New moderator, so please do report any problematic posts or comments. What sort of content would you like to see here? Post-mortems? AMAs? And a reminder that we allow self-promo here but only if it adds value from a gamedev perspective.
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Hi all! You might have seen my name around in the community. I’ve been here since before the Reddit blackouts, which I guess makes me some kind of ancient lemming-witch, and spent the last few weeks trying to kick off discussion threads and shilling our community at every opportunity which is probably how some of you made your way here in the first place.
I’ve recently been appointed as community mod by an instance admin (thank you Ada <3), due to our lead (and only other) mod currently being inactive.
Firstly, please know this isn’t a grab for power, it just makes sense to have someone able to deal with reports and enforce the existing rules already put in place by our lead mod until they hopefully return. I’ll do my best to steer the ship until that happens, but would love to get your feedback on direction.
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As we’re a relatively new community on a relatively new site, obviously we don’t have a huge amount of valuable content here. YET. I’ve been chatting to some friends on other platforms about potentially making long form, in-depth posts here about their experiences to serve as interesting, educational reads as well as pillar content for the community.
Gamers with specific accessibility requirements, senior AAA developers, solo indie devs who have successfully acquired project funding or navigated their way through Next Fest, employers who can talk about how to get hired, that sort of thing.
We could potentially even go in the direction of AMA style threads rather than essays and make an event out of it, if that’s something the community would be more interested in?
Any suggestions for the sort of thing you’d like to see are very welcome, and I’ll do what I can to make it happen! Personally I’m coming at the gamedev topic from the perspective of a hobbyist solo developer, but I know we have a diverse group here who will most likely want to see different things, so this is your chance to be heard.
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Lastly I just wanted to touch on the existing rule around self-promo, as I know many people are using mobile apps that don’t show the sidebar info and may be unaware.
Self-promotion is WELCOME in this community. But with a caveat: it must come with added value for our members. I’ll quote the sidebar here, written by our glorious leader:
Self-promotion is fine as long as you do it from a gamedev perspective - share your progress, insights, techniques and mishaps! If you recently posted, update the previous post instead of filling the frontpage with your project
So you want to drop a link to your devlog? Sure! Do it as part of a post discussing the stuff you learned recently during the development process and how we can avoid making the same mistakes you did.
Looking for trailer feedback? Sure! Tell us all about the research you’ve done so far and how you used what you learned to structure what you’re showing us. What do you think worked and what didn’t?
Want an excuse to give us your Steam wishlist link? Sure! But do it as part of a post-mortem post of some kind, a brief guide on how you approached making an unusual mechanic, or even a meta-discussion on what you’ve learned about encouraging more wishlists…
…you get the idea.
If promo posts start to significantly overshadow more discussion-focused posts we may eventually revisit this rule, but as a probably temporary guardian of the space it would be weird of me to come in and immediately make changes like that, so here we are.
Thanks for reading my wall of text and I hope you all have a great day!
When this community was brand new I got to talking with a few people who fancy the idea of taking part in a game jam, but are too nervous. Whether because they’d never done one before, or at least not in a while, or just a general lack of confidence in their ability to “keep up” with more experienced devs.
Well, I’ve taken part in a lot of jams over the last few years. Some of them successfully completed, some of them utter failures, one of them somehow both. And the two jams that I can personally recommend for beginners or nervous folks, both just happen to be on their way. So I thought I’d share!
My First Game Jam
Why this jam is great:
This was in fact my first ever game jam, back in 2020, and it was a great experience. The community is helpful and welcoming to everyone regardless of experience level, with more experienced folks (including myself, now!), hanging around and responding to pings for help.
The jam runs for two whole weeks which is a much easier prospect for a first-timer than the typical 48-72h ones. It’s well-established, well-moderated, and quite big so if you’re looking to join a team you’ll have a solid chance.
The My First Game Jam actually runs twice per year, so if you’re still not ready to jump in you can look out for this one happening again in Winter.
Rainbow Jam
Why this jam is great:
The Rainbow Jam is a jam for LGBT+ folk and their allies, with all the inclusivity and friendliness that suggests. It’s much smaller than My First Game Jam, but has been running for 7 years with the result that most of the regulars get to know each other from year to year. By far the nicest jam community I’ve joined, to the extent that many of us now keep in touch year-round.
As well as just being a lovely wholesome jam, which again lasts for two weeks to avoid stressful time-crunch, the organisers are also very active in finding sponsors and opportunities for under-represented devs and artists. You’ll often see job postings, talks, funding opportunities posted there that aren’t easily found otherwise.
And of course, it’s not starting until September so you have some time to build up the courage to join!
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Personally I’m so excited for both of these, they’re by far the highlight of the game jam calendar for me. Longer jams tend to attract a more mature audience (in outlook if not in actual age) and are generally just a lot less stressful in every possible way, so they’re a fantastic place to start.
If you have any questions about either of them or about taking part in game jams in general, I’d be very happy to answer. Maybe a few of you fancy taking part and can even team up!
Or maybe you have similarly beginner-friendly jams to recommend, in which case the more the merrier. Just leave a reply with the jam details in a similar format to the above, I know I’d love to hear about them for future reference even if nobody else is interested 😄
EDIT: Issue "fixed" itself after a few days, see comments.
I'm aware of the ongoing issues with federation being a bit patchy, and have got used to manually searching for posts / comments to pull them in and sync them. No problems there, usually.
But the last couple of days I've seen two threads in particular that seem to work everywhere else, but never made it to .world and can't be pulled in manually either.
The first was https://lemmy.world/post/1005008 (throws an error, but visible at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/600356) which also posted multiple times to the community it's in so I thought the issue was maybe something to do with that.
The second is https://lemm.ee/post/703295, which did not have any multiple-posting issue as far as I can tell.
For both of these threads I've tried manually searching for the post AND for comments. The former allows me to search up a reply, but then gives a couldnt_find_post.
error when I try to click through. The latter doesn't find any replies at all.
Just thought this might be an interesting data point as it seems to be different to the typical problems we've been having. If anyone has any idea what's broken with these two posts I'd love an explanation!
I've been on Lemmy for 12 days apparently, feels like a lifetime! And I keep seeing posts about how it's too empty or there's no content outside of the Reddit drama or whatever.
So it got me thinking, am I just subbed to way more stuff than most? Because I go into the "all" tab maybe once a day, and keep busy in "subscribed" the rest of the time.
Here's my stats:
That's for this account, although I also have a second account for slightly different topics so there's probably another 20-30 or so unique subs on there.
How about you?
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