Ask anything
Post where you're stuck, from your first script to a failed console cert. Someone here has hit that wall before.
// A Discord server for game developers
Enter the code. Skip years of trial and error.
Veteran game developers sharing the shortcuts, fixes and hard lessons from long careers in code, art, design and audio. Ask at any level. Pay it forward when you can.
Four inputs. The whole server runs on them.
Every old strategy guide had a page of cheats. This is ours. Most of us use all four in the same week: we ask, we review, we learn, and we pass it on.
Get a review
Share your build, art, pitch or portfolio and get honest feedback from people who do this for a living.
Learn from the vets
Mentoring, talks and postmortems from developers with years of shipped games, including the ones that never launched.
Pass it on
Found a fix? Learned a trick? Share your own codes. Everyone who gets help here can give it next.
// Select your class
Codes for every discipline. Every class meets in the middle.
CLASS 01
Code
Gameplay systems, engine internals, tools, networking, optimisation and getting a build out the door.
CLASS 02
Art
Concept, 2D and 3D, animation, VFX, UI art, tech art and building a portfolio that gets read.
CLASS 03
Design
Systems, levels, narrative, economy and the hard part: finding out why the fun isn't there yet.
CLASS 04
Audio
Sound design, music, implementation and middleware, and making a game feel alive with your eyes closed.
// House rules
No cheating on these.
I
No gatekeeping.
Every veteran here once asked the same beginner question.
II
Teach what you know. Credit who taught you.
Knowledge moves forward when it's passed on, not hoarded.
III
Critique the work, never the person.
Honest feedback, delivered the way you'd want to hear it.
IV
Knowledge, not hacks.
The only cheats here are lessons. No game cheats, cracks or piracy.
Press start.
Come to learn, come to teach, or both. Free to join.
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