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Idea: Blog posting - independent of devlogs

A topic by Al's Game Shack created Jul 17, 2020 Views: 725 Replies: 5
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I have checked around the site and I don't believe this is something that has been implemented yet (please correct me if I'm wrong) but it might be a cool idea to have blog posting on itch.

Developers could write articles on various topics of games development including on design, art, production, audio etc. I think this could be a valuable thing to have say for example if one developer had a game with procedural generation and wanted to write about how they did it but in a larger context, not specific to their game and then others with an interest in the topic could then learn from this. It just means people can share ideas in this way as part of a library of topics on game development instead of having to go through a game and to a devlog to learn about something. It can also allow people to write on subjects to do with other games not their own.

It could be a great integration into the site as this is a hotbed for great developers and ideas and could be like something akin to gamasutra.

Is this a good idea? Let me know what you think.

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You can always post devlogs on each project you have.

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This would be separate to devlogs. For example it could be a blog about an in depth look at the level design in a popular game series or methods for optimising 3D models (I'm just spitballing) but essentially anything devs might want to write about that does not link directly to their own game. Like I mentioned something similar to gamasutra where people can cover more high level game dev topics as opposed to just writing within the context of their own games published here.

I don't think so, I prefer that each article has the context of a project. 

But would you not be interested in discussions or articles that don't have to be tied directly to a project? Like if someone wanted to write about a specific aspect of level design let's say whereby they might talk about a variety of games that focus on what works and what doesn't?

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Yeah I suppose so. Although they had this feature on IndieDB, and I didn't really use it very much. I dunno, maybe you're right, it's somewhere that could become really big for tutorials maybe. But I dunno, I like having keeping it focussed around a project.