Hey everyone. wanted to do a post about this since the gamedev community recently quadrupled its monthly active users.

Currently this community accepts all topics related to game development. However due to current activity levels for certain kinds of topics, things other than news posts can be easily drowned out if all kinds of gamedev news posts start being posted.

Therefore im proposing a new community is made for certain categories of gamedev news. Essentially what will happen is:

• The new gamedev news community will accept anything related to news in the gamedev space. This includes things like engine news, tool news, gamedev company news,
• This community will no longer allow gamedev company news and generic gamedev news that isnt related to developing a game

These two communities have a bit of overlap with things like game engine news. For example unity deciding to self destruct is valid in both since its something people developing a game would want to know (but things like articles on people reacting to that, etc. isnt)

Examples:

valid in c/gamedev

• https://programming.dev/post/2965031 - Engine request
• https://programming.dev/post/2930931 - Question
• https://programming.dev/post/1920936 - Gamedev related post

valid in c/gamedev_news

• https://programming.dev/post/3034712 - Article relating to currently unity news (company reacting)
• https://programming.dev/post/2995246 - Unity closing due to death threats
• https://programming.dev/post/2943958 - A post relating to the recent unity news
• https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/playtika-buys-mobile-game-dev-innplay-labs - Article about a game publisher
• https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-i-starfield-i-will-enlist-for-official-mod-support-in-early-2024 - Article - relating to modding for a game

valid in both

• https://programming.dev/post/2913921 - News article about the initial events of the Unity event
• https://programming.dev/post/2933958 - Blog post about switching from Unity to Godot
• https://programming.dev/post/3034654 - Article about markov chains
• https://programming.dev/post/3033803 - Free game assets

Im going to make a couple replies on this post. Feel free to upvote which one you want to vote for (im not counting downvotes)