July 17, 2023 · Watch · ~45 min · Digital Dragons — Kraków
Where to find your chooms — building a community from scratch at Digital Dragons
A Digital Dragons talk on the unglamorous first year of a game's community — where to actually find the people who'll care, how to talk to them, and what to protect them from once they arrive.
Digital Dragons in Kraków is one of the conferences where the Central and Eastern European games industry actually talks to itself — and where I keep learning as much in the audience as I do on stage.
This session is for anyone standing at the beginning of a community: no players yet, no Discord, no vocabulary of your own. I walked through where your first chooms are hiding, how to approach them without making it weird, and how to build the shape of a community you can still recognise once it's ten thousand people bigger.
It leans on lessons from The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, but the framework is the same one I'd hand a two-person indie team on day one.
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJSKqZI28WU
— Carolin