I keep seeing these Godot meetup things where you can meetup with a lot of other people who all use the engine, but at the same time it feels like the kind of thing that wouldn’t end up working for some reason. Anyone ever gone to one or heard anything about them? Are they actually super popular and I’m just out of the loop? Or is my gut feeling correct?
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Yeah,you mean the GodotCon?
No, I don’t. Godotcon is big and I’m sure it’s qualitative. But I keep seeing small pretty sure incredibly unofficial ones popup once every so often.
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Well,I never heard of those lol
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Just let em do xD
maybe they it inside their own community.
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Yeah I just think it’s to a certain amount kinda cool how it shows how community driven the engine is. Having in official meetups just to talk to other Devs is kinda cool. Even if they might be completely empty.
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In the before times, people with similar interests would meet in a physical space. They would talk to each other about their shared interest. They would show off what they’d been doing and have real time, audible conversations about what they’d made. Using their voices. Hands, too, if they were excited. And then sometime they’d just work on their hobbies in the same room. They’d share knowledge, person to person, like you may have done at some point with a family member or at school. It was fun. It helped keep everyone’s interest sharp. It was inspiring to see what the guy who lived in your same city could do, in a way that watching a virtuoso on YouTube isn’t.
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Yeah just this hobby is all about doing stuff online so it’s more interesting that there are big irl meetups.
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Yeah but you don’t code at a LAN party cause coding isn’t a group activity (don’t you dare send a link to a wiki page about git or GitHub, or I will find your house and drown you in a vat of olive oil and then make a steak with that olive oil and feed it to your neighbours cat) (hope that doesn’t get me in trouble form the mods lol)
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I DON’T LOOK LIKE THAT!
I got black hair xD
You got the wrong person : 3
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Damn. So I just. Oh. God. They said they were innocent. But I thought it was a ploy. Oh god. What have I done.
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Fair enough, I get what you mean. This is just a laugh or cry situation, so I was a little flippant. But people into computer hobbies, even things like networking and “hacking” (2600 used to have a healthy network of meetings across colleges and cities in the United States), electronic music, and yes programming, used to get together and I think maybe still do. You do basically just hang out and work on your computer in meatspace.
I should see what’s going on myself. My city has a couple game programming meetups listed on Meet Up, but I haven’t gone. Covid jolted my social anxiety, and it’s unclear how many people show up. It might just be the meetup founder, who’s twenty years younger than me and whose other meetup group is for polyamory. … Well, I’ll drop by one of these days.
Anyone in the Denver area want to meet up and stare at Godot on our computer screens, together?
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Do you use Discord? Because people VC all the time on the Godot and Godot Cafe discord servers. Great place to meet people.
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Maybe it’s a time thing, or a regional thing, but we used to call any activity where several people met up and networked their computers together a “LAN Party”, not just for gaming, participated in a few ones involving coding
I don’t know if “game jam” existed as a term back then, we didn’t know it at least
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You see, meeting people on Discord/any communication app and sharing each other’s progress gives a whole new level of inspiration. Yapping about each other’s games is just fun!
Like me and three other cool devs do in our server (Good Devs).
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Sort of like a Godot Users Group? GUG - lol
I would actually like to see that if I could find a covid-aware/masing-friendly one. I think I did see a gamedev meetup in my area, but it was at a bar or cafe, so no thanks.