LuduStack - A new initiative to help the gamedev community

Gamasutra;

reddit/gamedev;

GameJolt;

Itch.io;

IndieDB;

Gamedev.net;

Unity Connect;

IndieGo;

DevelTeam;

iDev Games;

Open Source - Anyone can contribute with the code that runs the community. [here is the github repo] (https://github.com/anteatergames/ludustack) and the azure devops project;

Social Network format - The main workflow is inspired by the biggest social networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, wich is friendly to newcommers;

Exclusive tools - The code is directed to gamedevs, it is not generic (of course you can fork the project and make a generic social network if you want). The features planned will help more people to develop their games like project management, writer tool, brainstorm, team management, etc;

A central hub - It is the ONLY gamedev community that has links to other gamedev communities, acting like a central hub wich you can use to register all your presence on the web as gamedev;

Community oriented - There are a mechanism to suggest and vote on ideas for the community, no other community have easy mechanisms to gather feedback and focus the development effort;

The main features of the platform are:

Social Network - Inspired by the most successfull social networks on the market. It have like, comment, share, etc;

Team Management - Members can create teams and invite other members to the team. This month, I will implement the creation of "recruiting teams" to help people that are alone but want some help on their projects. Teams will be able to earn medals and trophies for acomplishments like game jam participation;

Brainstorm System - Everyone knows that "idea guy", right? So I am giving voice to those guys;

Featured Articles - The main page have a featured caroussel wich shows content featured by the staff based on voting system, in the future, the community will be able to vote to feature articles;

Multi-language - All the system is localizable and there is a open translation project on POEditor. Anyone can contribute;

Game Jam - There will be a game jam system where you can create game jams or link to other communities' game jams, becoming a central hub even for that purpose;

Events/Meetups - Users will be able to add events to the community calendar, helping people to atted to physical meetings where they can expand their network, trade some services and put some faces on the names;

Jobs - A place where users can post paid jobs and apply to postions offered;

Challenges - Users will be able to post paid/unpaid challenges (art, sound, code, prototype, etc), rate the submissions and maybe, in a future, pay the winner to keep the submitted art.

Gamification - Badges, points, achievements and ranks. You can earn stuff and climb the ranks;

App Graphics Generator - A mix of Norio's tool and some app icon generator tools like this;

Witter tool - A tool to help video game writers keep their story consistent and canon ;

Translation tool - Anyone will be able to add some strings, be helped by the community on translations and download the translated final result;

Project Management - Inspired by the awesome Hack N Plan and integrated with other system features;

Component Scripts - Anyone will be able to share, search and download component scripts;

Technical characteristics:

CI/CD - The publish pipeline is automated by Azure DevOps so each commit is published almost instantly to the stagint environment and to publish on production, we just need to approve the already tested commit;

Cloud-based - The whole system is hosted by windows azure with benefits that only a cloud can offer like geographic distribution, worldwide datacenters, CDN, etc.;

Responsive Layout - The website can be used on any screen, any device;

Progressive Web App - The layout is responsive and the application is PWA, wich means you can install on your phone and use it just like a native app.