!Bside@fedia.io My alternative gaming community has reached 96 subscribers, so close to 100.
I wanted to explain a little a bit the reasons for making the community and what the difference is between other Indie gaming communities.
Before making this community, I searched for communities for “indie games” and found only one active on lemmy.ml, so I thought an indie gaming community that is not on .ml would be nice.
My mistake was though that I did not search for “indie gaming,” which made me misd the community on Lemmy.world, which I was pointed out to me later. But at that time I already had quite a few subscribers, and I had made many posts. So I did not want to close the community.
So I started trying to make it different from other Indie gaming communities.
One thought I had even before finding out about indie gaming was to focus more on the smaller indie titles and Foss games. The Problem with that idea was I did not know where to draw the line; what should be considered a small indie game? In the end, I decided to drop the idea and allow all the indie games, but I personally would focus a bit more on titles that are somewhat smaller.
A difference that existed since the conception of the community was that I specifically allow NSFW content to be posted. Because I believe adult games are as much part of gaming as other games, and I think most apps and clients allow NSFW content blocking in case someone does not want to see it.
New recent changes I have made to differentiate it from other communities are that it is now allowed to post game mods and ROM hacks.
Additionally, it allowed posting free or commercial links to game assets for others to use in their indie games that they are developing.
So in the end !Bside@fedia.io is an indie gaming++ community. So feel free to join if you think it is something for you.
!Bside@fedia.io My alternative gaming community has reached 96 subscribers, so close to 100. I wanted to explain a little a bit the reasons for making the community and what the difference is between other Indie gaming communities.
Before making this community, I searched for communities for “indie games” and found only one active on lemmy.ml, so I thought an indie gaming community that is not on .ml would be nice. My mistake was though that I did not search for “indie gaming,” which made me misd the community on Lemmy.world, which I was pointed out to me later. But at that time I already had quite a few subscribers, and I had made many posts. So I did not want to close the community.
So I started trying to make it different from other Indie gaming communities. One thought I had even before finding out about indie gaming was to focus more on the smaller indie titles and Foss games. The Problem with that idea was I did not know where to draw the line; what should be considered a small indie game? In the end, I decided to drop the idea and allow all the indie games, but I personally would focus a bit more on titles that are somewhat smaller.
A difference that existed since the conception of the community was that I specifically allow NSFW content to be posted. Because I believe adult games are as much part of gaming as other games, and I think most apps and clients allow NSFW content blocking in case someone does not want to see it.
New recent changes I have made to differentiate it from other communities are that it is now allowed to post game mods and ROM hacks. Additionally, it allowed posting free or commercial links to game assets for others to use in their indie games that they are developing.
So in the end !Bside@fedia.io is an indie gaming++ community. So feel free to join if you think it is something for you.
I curate !tycoon@lemmy.world and also post a lot in !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works. Happy to occasionally crosspost some of the more mainline content (it’s still almost all indie games) to !bside@fedia.io.
That would be nice, thanks.
Sounds great, good luck!
Thank you