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[quantumpotato]

Are there prominent indie game forums for your country that aren't speaking English? Just curious.

[s0]

nope, my country is too small for something like that to exist

[Schoq]

I hope not

[Think Inside The Box]

Pretty sure there aren't, on the other hand if there is one...

[nnyei]

There's probably a German one out there, but I've never tried to look for one. Most of the interesting, game-related communities tend to be in English.

I frequent a Japanese one, but forum-wise it's abysmal and it's basically more of a dump for "baby's first game" (I once downloaded about five games and only one of them wouldn't crash within the first 30 seconds). There's no real exchange going on either, which is a pretty big bummer.

I've stumbled across a Chinese game-dev related forum once, but I'm not yet proficient in that language so it kinda got lost in my bookmarks.

[voidSkipper]

There's probably a German one out there, but I've never tried to look for one. Most of the interesting, game-related communities tend to be in English.

I frequent a Japanese one, but forum-wise it's abysmal and it's basically more of a dump for "baby's first game" (I once downloaded about five games and only one of them wouldn't crash within the first 30 seconds). There's no real exchange going on either, which is a pretty big bummer.

I've stumbled across a Chinese game-dev related forum once, but I'm not yet proficient in that language so it kinda got lost in my bookmarks.

I was just thinking that I hadn't explored any Japanese game dev forums... if that's par for the course, though, it sounds very disappointing.

[s0]

There's probably a German one out there, but I've never tried to look for one. Most of the interesting, game-related communities tend to be in English.

there a few, spieleprogrammierer.de is probably the biggest, but they aren't anything to write home about tbh.

for better or for worse, english is just so dominant that you're seriously limiting the pool of people you can communicate with if you stick to another language, which in turn limits the potential quality of the communications.

there are a lot of ESL users on tig btw, including myself.

[2mass]

Prominent.. Dunno.. But we have something called Udvikleren where indie devs and AAAs meet. And sometimes they hire people for beta testing and stuff in there. But it's not as large as this outfit and other international forums.

[Magurp244]

Well I had come across gamedev.ru awhile back, seems to be pretty active. Wouldn't mind adding more international dev sites to my list, always interesting to see what people are up to elsewhere.

[gimymblert]

lingua franca
ask kojima and codetalker

[Cobralad]

gamedev ru pretty much covers all post-soviet countries.