Perhaps this? https://forums.tigsource.com/

Lots of indies post there.

The problem with TIG is that it seems to be fractured on the admin level, and it seems to be in a death spiral right now. The front page hasn't been updated in years. I used to be an active member there and loved it. The site I made is very much inspired by it.

Famous tigsource Minecraft post

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=95koo9rn3ne...

> e: apparently the avatar and account name was changed in response to transphobic tweets by notch, at least according to a random twitter user

That’s an overstep on the part of the admins/mods IMO. Either ban someone if you don’t want them there, or leave their stuff alone. Don’t go editing other people’s names and profile pictures. No bueno.

It’s basically because of a meme created after Notch was outed for his transphobic tweets (and was even kicked out from the credits for Minecraft), people were all saying that Hatsune Miku created Minecraft. Hence the anime character with the trans flag on it, I think its actually a bit hilarious.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hatsune-miku-created-minecraf...

Could it have been this one? http://forums.indiegamer.com/

>> "When the original Dexterity Forums closed in 2004, Indie Gamer was born and a diverse community has grown out of a passion for creating great games. "

Yup, that's the one. I was there at that time. I was not very active, but it was valuable nevertheless. Apart from Cliffski (who still has a very successful indie career and insightful blog), I mostly remember princec, who built Java based games which performed like native ones but didn't have much commercial success at the time. Looks like his puppygames is still rolling, so he finally made it work!

princec! That name takes me back. Good to hear he's still going.

Interestingly, IIRC the more freewheeling TIGSource, mentioned in another reply to the parent comment, was created in response to the indiegamer community being too doctrinairally business-/casual-games-oriented in its outlook.

> The TIGS website was started by Jordan Magnuson (aka flamingpear) and announced to the world on the IndieGamer.com forums in January '05. Initially the site caused consternation among independent developers for its irreverent style and unabashed criticism of the "match three" clones that were prevalent in the "independent" game community. The site rapidly grew in readership, and quickly gained a cult status.

( https://tig.fandom.com/wiki/TIGSource )

I spent about 10 years very involved in that forum :) Met some of the people at Casual Connect in Seattle, and randomly elsewhere throughout the years. Cliffski is still going at it, Steven Zhao is now running a very successful VR space franchise (Sandbox VR), I've dipped in and out of games (Google -> Improbable -> Google). I remember getting into extensive debates about C++ vs Java with princec. That forum has a special place in my heart <3

Yes, that’s it! :D Learned a lot from that place.