@aaronlinde @stirpicus @rhipratchett I once had someone apply for a job on my team and he listed something I was responsible for at a previous job on his resume. It was a very funny and deeply gratifying phone call when I asked him about it and he slowly realized who he was talking to.
@eric_lang Totally perfect! This rings too true. Our first game was wildly over ambitious before anyone knew making an MMO was actually incredibly hard but the small team was so bought in that folks moved mountains to make it happen.
@JeffAHamilton I've run a by-referral-only gamedev slack since 2014. It has a few hundred folks with 30 or 40 active people and have only had to boot 2 people ever. The only moderation is to rarely remind people to keep chat to the right channels. Self-selecting adults aren't too bad to mod :)