Hobbyist here too, although I had something approaching a career as a web dev previously so had a leg up on the programming stuff.

Started out in Unity, but it was just getting too slow and frustrating to use so on the advice of gamedev Mastodon I've recently made the jump to Godot. Trying to learn that while also prototyping what will hopefully become my first commercial game, a minimalist "city builder" where the city basically builds itself.

We'll see how that goes!

Hi there! Just came across this community after recently creating a Lemmy account (yet another Reddit refugee I guess).

I'm glad to see a gamedev community on here! I've been a coder and a gamer all my life, but only this year after an amazing birthday present did I finally get into combining the two, and now I just completed my first gamejam.

Currently I'm only into Godot Engine, but I've also got an eye on some of these fantasy consoles like the PICO-8 or the TIC-80.

And I watch a ton of game design YouTube channels.

Hi! I’m the studio director at Hidden People Club web. I created cuentitos, an open source narrative engine with probability at its core.

I’ve been working in games for 11 years already so I’ve done plenty of things, but mostly programming and leading teams.

Right now all the games I work on are written in Rust using Bevy.

Did a bunch of godot dev, but have no art skills so I most make UI toys and stuff. I also am deep in renpy, though the way I use it is hacked to all hell and back.

Hey thanks for making the community! I'm mostly a hobby game dev (it's just like indie but I'm not paid). I really enjoy making stuff in Godot with C# but I also enjoy exploring other tech stacks for game dev.

Hi, I'm an indie game dev, though my last successes in that field took place years ago. I was doing programming, game design, art and even music for my games. Now I'm trying to get back to it more seriously. I worked with Godot for some time, but recently I decided to write my own engine in Rust, because I'm a control freak and I like it low level.

Hobbies game developer and full-time UX. I also run an itch.io game store where I publish (free/paid) art and some of my tech demos. I mostly dab in visual programming using Construct 3. Hoping to connect and contribute to this community :) - cheers

Hi I've been pending membership for some time here. Just checking in if the mods knows about pending subscripting from new members?

Professional game dev for 25 years now. Started modding and level design back in the days of DOOM/Quake, which eventually led to a job in the industry.

I'm a designer primarily, but I also do quite a bit of engineering. I've worked mostly with heavily modified Source engine and, most recently, Unreal.

I'm a hobbyist working with Unity. I have messed around with making games in some form since I was a kid, but only got serious about it as a hobby some years back. I started out biting off way more than I could chew, but eventually started over, did some game jams, and started actually releasing games. I'm tired of jams for the time being, though, so I am taking another stab at a more long-term project.

I always think it's really cool to create a game without an engine, and maybe one day, I'll do it too, but for now I stick with Godot. I started with GDevelop, moved onto unity and then once I realized there were fans of depreciating old packages without fully releasing new ones, and leaving a bunch of things in a limbo start I moved onto Godot, and it's been a real pleasure!

Though, there are a few other things that interest me, like Defold, LOVE2D and Twine.