r/gamedev
The subreddit covers various game development aspects, including programming, design, writing, art, game jams, postmortems, and marketing. It serves as a hub for game creators to discuss and share their insights, experiences, and expertise in the industry.
Members
2,050,151
2.1M
Posts per day
2.0
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Tracking since Aug 12 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows.
Member growth
Tracking since Aug 12 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/gamedev — frequently asked
How many members does r/gamedev have?
r/gamedev has 2,050,151 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 12. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/gamedev growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/gamedev yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 12; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/gamedev?
Around 2.0 posts per day. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
Can I promote my product in r/gamedev?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/gamedev yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/gamedev for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/gamedev into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.