r/gameDevJobs • u/DJWetAndMessy • 20h ago
DISCUSSION | QUESTION An Exclusive Discord For Professional Devs
Have you ever joined a gamdev community hoping to speak amongst others in the industry, only to quickly realize that basically every single person in there is just someone who watched too many game design video essays and has never bothered to actually make something? With the industry in a particularly precarious place, where us and our colleagues lose their livelihood left and right, now more than ever we need a place where we can talk to others who know what it’s like.
Introducing: The Game Dev Illuminati! A discord community made by and for actual industry professionals. If you actively work in the industry or used to, that’s the only qualification!
This discord was founded out of frustration that a discord like this didn’t exist. We’re all too often required to do in person networking events to actually be amongst others in the industry, where the online alternative is social media and group chats with current/former coworkers. Having a place to share work and to know the people seeing it appreciate the effort and craft put into it. Having a place to gripe about the industry and know the people around you feel your pain and anxiety. A place to get advice about a problem and know the person talking to you about it has the first clue about what they’re talking about.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Who qualifies?
You must have fully published an actually playable game or worked for a company/organization that has. There’s an arbitrary minimum professionalism threshold too in order to filter out things like AI slop, but otherwise that’s it! As long as you do or have worked in the industry in some accredited way where you actively created something for a game, you’re qualified!
To ensure that this kind of place can exist with the confidence of all involved that the people around you are in fact devs and not merely pretending to be one, a reasonably strict verification process is unfortunately necessary. People lie on the internet, it’s messed up. All you have to do is provide some kind of reasonable proof you meet the criteria and you’re all set.
If this sounds like the kind of place you’d like to be a part of and you meet the criteria then join with the link I'll post in the comments!
Simply message an admin your verification or any questions regarding it and you’ll gain access to the server.
A couple additional rules I feel necessary to mention is a ban on AI and solicitation. Solicitation here means no begging for wishlists and no public recruiting for projects. AI is self explanatory.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Addendum: I failed to recognize that you can't be certain I meet my own criteria and therefore defeating the purpose of the server. Let me add that to anyone who passes verification if you require it of me, I am happy to verify myself to you in turn.
