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r/gamedev is a subreddit with 1.9M members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is massive in size, and has crazy activity.
The subreddit covers various game development aspects, including programming, design, writing, art, game jams, postmortems, and marketing. It serves as a hub for game creators to discuss and share their insights, experiences, and expertise in the industry.
Popular Themes in r/gamedev
#1
Advice Requests
: "Learning game dev from 0, any advice?"
10 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Built a free site to find teammates and share resources!"
3 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Is it still possible to make a living in game dev?"
3 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Some ideas for hot reloading?"
2 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "So the day has come: I just released my first videogame to Steam 30 minutes ago!"
2 posts
#6
Money Talk
: "Just made my first money in gamedev. It's not much but it made me smile"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/gamedev
#1
Game Dev
: "Built these free Game Dev tools for everyone! Enjoy!"
40 posts
#2
Game Development
: "It’s honestly depressing how little people value games and Game Development"
40 posts
#3
Steam
: "Steam is dealing with spam. Valve’s platform has been flooded with games stolen from itch.io"
10 posts
#4
Feedback
: "Dropped my second game – would love some Feedback"
8 posts
#5
Game Design
: "I want to be a Game Designer"
8 posts
#6
Unity
: "anyone have any experience with physics/animation blending with A* path finding on Unity?"
7 posts
#7
Marketing
: "What helped Wordastro! gain traction before launch? A Marketing breakdown"
6 posts
#8
Ideas
: "How does one get good at everything?"
6 posts
#9
Indie Game
: "How I sold over 200k copies over 3 games as a solo developer."
5 posts
#10
Petition
5 posts
Member Growth in r/gamedev
Yearly
+326k members(20.7%)
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