Is tigsource dead?


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I’m a relatively new member (joined last year) and I like the “slowness” here. I like to click the “show posts unread since you last came” and it’s just short enough that I can see most of them instead of being overwhelmed.

I feel like you can get lost in a big community like discord. I think people use twitter, tiktok, gamejolt, reddit, itch.io, steam and youtube now and build communities around an existing game being developed, so I think there’s definitely an active and huge gamedev community elsewhere. But there’s something cozy about forums and I quite like it being smaller so you can know people better and you can stumble upon new devlogs. I think a forum feels more personal, while social media feels more like marketing for your game.


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Pretty dead but keep an eye out, for something that might be a thing, possibly this year, maybe

Blink new game who dis?!

I’m a relatively new member (joined last year) and I like the “slowness” here. I like to click the “show posts unread since you last came” and it’s just short enough that I can see most of them instead of being overwhelmed.

absolutely! Big fan of this also, that’s why I’m saying small communities are always better.

What did the “golden age” mean to you guys?

People being excited about each others games. It still happens, I believe or really hope so, I haven’t posted anything game related in years, but for me that was the reason I fell in love with this place. It really helped me push through some dark times, as corny as it sounds, it’s one of the pillars of my continuous pursuit of making games.

I checked out a few places before deciding to lay roots here.  A lot of these places have a a culture of negativity, and not in a constructive way.  I think they are more after a reaction or upvotes than actually helping each other.

Yas queen! “fingersnap” I hate this new culture with a passion, there is no honesty, vulnerability, only this gross, make you wanna cringe-curl into the shower cabin, facade.
I hope tig won’t ever get infected by this plague and will keep fostering what it did so far. But i guess it’s up to us to keep it that way Gentleman

I do tend to lurk but life made me a busy man… I cannot be as active as I once were, unfortunately.

I feel you man. However tig feels like a good old friend, you can be MIA for years and still come back whenever like you never left in the first place. Cheers to this community, you lovely, lovely weirdos. Feels like home! Beer!


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Yeah, TIG’s dead. Or, at least, mortally wounded. Unless old forums suddenly become popular on TikTok (god, I hope they don’t…), I think the new generation of internet users have moved on past web forums.

This may come off as a bit weird, but I actually don’t mind that. It’s like TIG is stuck in the time before the internet became the addictive, monopolistic hellscape that it is now. Hell, there’s still an option to put your AIM nickname in your profile.

I’m kinda bummed I wasn’t here for the golden era, but I’m sure TIG’s twilight years will still be enjoyable.


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It’s like TIG is stuck in the time before the internet became the addictive, monopolistic hellscape that it is now.

This! Absolutely this. That’s why I desperately hope to keep it alive for ever. A hub for the 90’s kid, even if you’re born later, earlier, or you’ve always been, this is that cool bench you find in that park nobody visits, where people with similar interests also join from time to time. It’s neat af. It’s worth preserving.

It’s a bummer that Derek, the guy who made the cool bench forgot about that bench, but life is life, maybe one day he will at least drop by. Scribble with a bold pen somewhere on the back D+Games=<3


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God I hate this garbage, they forced me to watch it out in LA and I considered checking out myself:

(Following is NSFW)

Now I wonder if I’ve been dead all along… who knows, change the channel marge!

I’m sorry to inform you, Michael, but you are working for a company where Videodrome is, like, a foundational document. See: https://letterboxd.com/doomlaser/list/video-references-inspiration-for-doomlaser/

I can discuss why the scene is cool, but that would be a [spoiler]spoiler[/spoiler]. Ask in the Discord, we can chat it out there  Cool


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