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Any "oldschool" C++ gamedev forum/discord?

A topic by danielbrendel created Jun 15, 2023 Views: 701 Replies: 7
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All my games are written in C++ using my own game engine systems. It makes a lot of fun, but it's kinda a lonely hobby, because all these people today are focusing on Unity, Unreal or Godot to make games.

Now there seem to be a small amount of people who create games with C++ using DX, OpenGL, SDL2, SFML, etc. It just seems there is not really a community place for that. I couldn't find a discord or forum. Is anyone aware of something like that? I am already in some gamedev discords, but I am the only one coding in C++ and creating my own game engines. So, I can't just talk about many things with them.

Is anyone aware of an appropriate community?

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Its pretty well known so you may already be familiar with it but the Handmade Hero community may be up your alley. I think the community stuff (including the discord) is under the name “Handmade Network”?

Lotta game dev adjacent and general lower level programming stuff going on in there

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You’re not alone; we’re just a bit quiet here.

C++ programmer here too...  My published project was written in C++ using SDL2.  I'm (slowly) learning Vulkan and hope to eventually write a voxel engine with it for development of future games.

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Several people on freegamedev.net use C++ but that site is for open source game development. I just started looking at lemmy sites since gamedev on reddit is down.

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+1 here, I work with programming engines in C++ for a living, and I'm creating my next 3D game in C++ powered with OpenGL and DX

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i code in C++ with Rad Studio too :)

also i have installed Unreal Engine for familiarize with it cos languaje is C++

check out this discord

https://discord.gg/ANy5Sr7wt2

It's Strictly for game dev in c and cpp (SDL,SFML,Raylib,Allegro)