Mark Mandel 🔜 Devcom 🔜 Gamescom

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Excited to be sitting down with Ashley Cook from Facepunch Studios to discuss how and why Rust implemented Discord’s social infrastructure to bring Discord features to their game at #devcom in a few weeks!

Details: 👇🏻
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Whether its your first or fifteenth time at the show, we've put together a helpful document to navigate both the event and the city of Cologne.

Featuring tips, tricks, advice, and discounts!

Oh I already compile it from scratch. This is just an improvement.

I fell over and now I seem to be attempting to build deb packages for Hyprland.

👋🏻 I'll be at #devcom, speaking at "Powering Social Connections: Discord’s Social SDK" (details to come!) and at #gamescom

📨 DM me if you want to chat about Discord and/or the Social SDK, OSS, backends for multiplayer games, Agones, or we can just share pictures of dogs 🐕.

#HugOps to our @github.com friends

It's my fault, I was trying to deploy something tricky today.

What are you doing on Thursday? Are you a Unity developer?

Then come join us for "Building Games with Unity + Social SDK" in our Discord Developer Server with ‪@antontesh.bsky.social‬!

See you there! 👇🏻

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Powering Player Connections

🚀 12pm PT today (in 2h ⏱️): @discord.com Social SDK Eng team presents "Powering Player Connections: How Discord's Social SDK Boosts Your Game"!

Learn how the Social SDK integrates your players' friends lists & social graphs, and the benefits you can get!

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I'll be presenting "Introduction to the @discord.com Social SDK" at the @igda.org Foundation - Alumni Weekend - this weekend! 🥳

It's a free virtual event (although donations appreciated!)
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I'll be on at 7pm Pacific ⏱️, but it runs all day Saturday and Sunday.

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Putting a call out for more approvers on Agones development

If you've ever wondered what it takes to become an approver, it's actually not that mystical a process! It just takes time and effort 👇🏻

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DM me if think you are close, or you have questions!

New @discord.com Social SDK Guide just dropped for managing Voice Chat with the SDK! This is a fun one, since you have to setup a lobby first! Check out the guide for details 👀

We promised this to be published "after GDC" - which is still technically true 😆

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I might just save this photo somewhere safe.

Photo credit: @kaslin.rocks

I'm sorry, but how did I miss this video from 2024 talking about how PUBG RUNS ON AGONES????

🤯 WHAT 🤯

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Hey Krafton, wanna drop your logo on the front page of agones.dev/site/ please? 😀

Presentation title page: Introducing the Discord Social SDK

🔉I'll be giving an online talk, doing a technical introduction of the @discord.com Social SDK at 12pm US Pacific, Tuesday 24th of June!

🤞🏻Hopefully this time, the whole internet won't fall over, and we won't have to postpone!

🔽 Sign up
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I'm sorry.

I get up at 5am to give a presentation and the whole internet is broken.

I feel like this is my fault somehow?

... And I think I found a bug with @fedica.com . Oops, what happened with that image? 🤦🏻☺️

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👋🏻 What are you up to this Thursday at 12pm US Pacific?

Come see me present "Introduction to the @discord.com Social SDK" - an overview of the Social SDK APIs via a walk-though of how I built a Discord Terminal App (open source of course!) 💻

Join 👇🏻
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More than happy to share 1:1! Hope you are well my friend! 👋🏻☺️

Yeah! Been a really fun few months! Definitely a good crew! ☺️

I'm in Melbourne, Australia for a spell! Hit me up if you want to talk #gamedev, @discord.com, Agones and/or #OSS!

I'm also giving a talk Tuesday at IGDAM talking about my ten years in games devrel (we're not recording this one, might be 🌶️🌶️🌶️☺️).

Sign up here👇🏻
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Moderation with the Discord Social SDK This guide will walk you through integrating and managing content moderation for your game when using the Discord Social SDK. Overview Effective moderation is essential for creating healthy social experiences. This guide will help you: Better understand your moderation responsibilities Implement client-side moderation for text and audio content alongside the Discord Social SDK

🔥 Got questions about integrating moderation with the Discord Social SDK?

Just published the Moderation guide, walking you through integrating and managing content moderation for your game when using the Social SDK! 📃

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I've gone back to researching native Go embeddable scripting languages with great Go interop.

Yeah I think so. I can't get it to even do integer math. I fear what happens if I attempt to make it work with strings.

I'm wasming.

That's the right verb for when you do wasm, right?

The more i work in developer relations the more I start to feel like it's really handy to enjoy conflict.

(But in a nice way 😁)

👋🏻 What are you doing on May 22nd?

We're starting up live events in the @discord.com Developer's Discord Server (too many Discord's???) again!

We'll be covering the latest news on our developer platform features, and you can meet the new devrel team 😁

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