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Some thoughts: Games sites, (especially game dev sites) suffer from a horrendous signal to noise ratio. We tend to have a very large, well-meaning but uninforme

by JanSolo 12y ago

Some thoughts: Games sites, (especially game dev sites) suffer from a horrendous signal to noise ratio. We tend to have a very large, well-meaning but uninformed audience who enjoy participating in discussions but do not offer much experience or insight. If you want your site to offer something of value, you'll need some way to manage the signal-to-noise ratio to ensure that good posts are not drowned out. Another thing to bear in mind is that game development is not the same as Game Programming. There are many skills that must combine in order for a game to be successful; Code, Art, Design, Audio, Biz, etc. Many gamedev sites focus on one or more of these disciplines; very few offer useful discussions on all of them. The best site for game developers is probably www.thechaosengine.com . They have forums for all of the major disciplines and they manage their S/N by requiring members to vouch for each other before being allowed into the main industry forums.

tfigment 12y ago
While thechaosengine.com might be a nice site as I cannot judge it from out here. I can understand not allowing posting privileges without some vetting but it looks like they are closing themselves off entirely. Of course they can do what the like as its their site and I'm sure it works wonders for keeping the riffraff out. I've run in to some great sites previously that spread useful information on game development without being closed off but yes they tend to be specialized or have died due to low number of users. Seems like the above approach generates some extra overhead for as well moderators. Some of the posts in the public forum are like "After months still waiting" people saying that there is a huge backlog and admins don't have the time to let people in or someone changed jobs and lost access to the private forums.
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by JanSolo 12y ago

tfigment 12y ago

While thechaosengine.com might be a nice site as I cannot judge it from out here. I can understand not allowing posting privileges without some vetting but it looks like they are closing themselves off entirely. Of course they can do what the like as its their site and I'm sure it works wonders for keeping the riffraff out. I've run in to some great sites previously that spread useful information on game development without being closed off but yes they tend to be specialized or have died due to low number of users. Seems like the above approach generates some extra overhead for as well moderators. Some of the posts in the public forum are like "After months still waiting" people saying that there is a huge backlog and admins don't have the time to let people in or someone changed jobs and lost access to the private forums.

alexthomas 12y ago

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