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DISCORD GAME JAM

JulianJulian
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Hey guys, just launched an active discord channel for the game JAM and other stuff, there are 3 hours left for this weekends game JAM :)

https://discordapp.com/invite/0144pmfik4ZARGQFQ

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  • JulianJulian
    Oh yea, for those of you who don't know, we are from ZAGD http://southafricangamedevelopers.com/
  • roguecoderoguecode
    Next time you may want to give people more of a headsup than 3 hours - which is obviously not going to go anywhere.

    Also, unrelated, what are the reasons you're using Discord over Slack? It seems a bit like a messier version of Slack.
  • skinklizzardskinklizzard
    discord is love, although its still in dev I believe it has the original slack developers behind it.
    also I assume the draw point of discord in this particular case would be the voice communication.
    personally never used slack so I'm not really able to compare but I'm lead to believe it doesn't have voice.
  • roguecoderoguecode
    Ah OK. Slack does have voice but I think it is closer to Skype, whereas Discord seems closer to Teamspeak.
  • BoysanoBoysano
    I've used Slack when it was in beta, and stopped when it seemed like they want to go the paid subscription route.

    Discord is a bit more fun, and we spent Friday jamming Discord settings more than the jam itself it was so much fun.

    It has bots also, which allows for listing to the same music etc, if latency is not too bad.

    Also very popular in gaming groups, so you can easily switch between servers and join your mates on another server voice group to play a co-op game when you take a break from chatting to the game dev peeps.

    It has been a year since I've been on Slack, so not sure how far along they have come with these features to compare.
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