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[Evan McClane]

Facepunch has a Programming section where I've seen some gamedevs posting.  The mods are pretty strict about people doing stupid stuff like posting memes and being assholes, but are at times kinda ban-happy.  Lots of other sections for different hobbies like photography and airsoft too.

[John Sandoval]

I like this place. I like you guise.

[moi]

and cultish self congratulatory masturbation is de rigueur.

yeah the SA forums are terrible, it's a constant oneupmanship and everybody there thinks he is special because their stupid photoshop or off-key life-story might make it to the SA frontpage

[Gabriel Verdon]

Let's fuck.

[Soulliard]

It used to be that there was a fairly prominent host of talented and established game developers regularly posting on the forums...  I think about how Fish, Edmund, Podunkian, cactus and Terry (among others) all used to be fairly active on the forums.

Most of those fellows were not as prominent or established back then. Fish was working in the mainstream industry when he joined. Podunkian was known mostly for screenshots of The Underside. Terry hadn't ever released a game and was practically unknown outside of the forums. Edmund was more well-established (mostly because of Gish), but he wasn't nearly as big as he is today. cactus was cactus.

The solution, then, is not to attract existing talented or established developers... but to become them.

[Paul Eres]

that isn't really a solution because after those people "became" them, they left

[Player Ʒ]

Facepunch has a Programming section where I've seen some gamedevs posting.  The mods are pretty strict about people doing stupid stuff like posting memes and being assholes, but are at times kinda ban-happy.  Lots of other sections for different hobbies like photography and airsoft too.

Just brace yourself for cardboard boxes if you ask what may be considered a stupid question. Or if there's a pony-related avatar. Or rage face.

[moi]

why would you have a pony avatar in the first place.

[caiys]

there's various smaller ones too like super friendship club, devmaster forums, notgames forums, etc., but most of those i haven't tried either

It's a shame Super Friendship Club tanked. I liked their approach of going for a minimalist forum design (which they didn't get around to implementing) and focusing the whole site on purely game dev. Seems like the web admins gave up on the place before it could even take off.

[DanFessler]

It used to be that there was a fairly prominent host of talented and established game developers regularly posting on the forums...  I think about how Fish, Edmund, Podunkian, cactus and Terry (among others) all used to be fairly active on the forums.

Most of those fellows were not as prominent or established back then. Fish was working in the mainstream industry when he joined. Podunkian was known mostly for screenshots of The Underside. Terry hadn't ever released a game and was practically unknown outside of the forums. Edmund was more well-established (mostly because of Gish), but he wasn't nearly as big as he is today. cactus was cactus.

The solution, then, is not to attract existing talented or established developers... but to become them.

Agreed.

[moi]

when a rockstar develloper looks into the tigsource abyss, the tigsource abyss looks into the rockstar dev, who deletes his account

[seagaia]

It used to be that there was a fairly prominent host of talented and established game developers regularly posting on the forums...  I think about how Fish, Edmund, Podunkian, cactus and Terry (among others) all used to be fairly active on the forums.

Most of those fellows were not as prominent or established back then. Fish was working in the mainstream industry when he joined. Podunkian was known mostly for screenshots of The Underside. Terry hadn't ever released a game and was practically unknown outside of the forums. Edmund was more well-established (mostly because of Gish), but he wasn't nearly as big as he is today. cactus was cactus.

The solution, then, is not to attract existing talented or established developers... but to become them.

Agreed.

Yeah, I think if everyone just keeps helping eachother out then this cycle will probably repeat again.

[moi]

It's an oedipian complex, we must kill the older rockstar devs

[seagaia]

It's an oedipian complex, we must kill the older rockstar devs

absorb their souls and become them

[Shackhal]

And more on topic, there's the GameMakerCommunity for anyone who works with game maker. I have no idea what state it's in now to be fair, but I remember people being very helpful when I used to frequent it.

They still help you with some feedback and advices. Not to much though.

It used to be that there was a fairly prominent host of talented and established game developers regularly posting on the forums...  I think about how Fish, Edmund, Podunkian, cactus and Terry (among others) all used to be fairly active on the forums.

Most of those fellows were not as prominent or established back then. Fish was working in the mainstream industry when he joined. Podunkian was known mostly for screenshots of The Underside. Terry hadn't ever released a game and was practically unknown outside of the forums. Edmund was more well-established (mostly because of Gish), but he wasn't nearly as big as he is today. cactus was cactus.

The solution, then, is not to attract existing talented or established developers... but to become them.

Agreed.

Yeah, I think if everyone just keeps helping each other out then this cycle will probably repeat again.

Could repeat but not in the same way. Time passed and everything will change but at least the essence could hold. Only if the older and veteran members could help too...