Succeeding with Communities - leemet16/game-design-toolkit GitHub Wiki

To succeed in building your game you will need to get support from others (Burke & Kafai, 2014). At a minimum, you will need a team. You'll also want to get support from the many communities that connect with video game creation efforts. For example, each development tool has a community: Scratch, Kodu, ARIS, and GameMaker Studio.

Creating a video game requires creativity, problem solving, patience, technical skills, artistic skills, and collaboration. There are many tools, techniques, and efforts to pull together. In order to increase the odds of success, it's important to engage with the following video game development communities:

• Other teams in your class that are also participating in this challenge
• People that you connect with in discussion forums related to tools and approaches you're using for your project
• Game-players
• Other game developers
• Audio and video enthusiasts

Game development (and software development in general) becomes more enjoyable as you connect and collaborate with more people. Take some time to share ideas, bring forward problems and challenges, and help others solve their issues. A community becomes valuable as you engage.

Reference

Burke, Q., & Kafai, Y. B. (2014). Decade of game making for learning: From tools to communities. Handbook of digital games, 689-709.