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r/GameDevelopment

Game Development

/r/gamedevelopment is a community for serious discussion about anything related to game development.

Community Stats

Subscribers
393k
Content rating
SFW
Created
2009-02-22
Posts per day
17/day
Comments per day
120/day
Discussion style
Balanced
Content mix
Text-focused (1% video)
Top post
1,300 upvotes
Top 100 median
58 upvotes
Competition
Competitive

r/GameDevelopment is a SFW subreddit with 393 thousand subscribers, created in 2009. It's text-focused, with only 1% of top posts being images or video. Posts average about 17 per day with 124 comments per day, making it a balanced community. Top posts this year scored up to 1.3K upvotes, with a typical top-100 post earning 58. It's a highly competitive community — the 100th-ranked top post of the past year is from 18 days ago. Browse 20 closely related communities below to find similar subreddits.

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