Games Development & Scene Chat Room, Irish Owned

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly

Greetings Folks!.

Ide like to inform you all of a chat room that I set up not so long ago related to indie game development and the general indie gaming scene (or any type of game development). So far we have a handful of dedicated regulars and many more occasional / weekend visitors. Most of us are working on projects, and the room has a range of skills and interests, for example we have people using Unity, Unreal Engine, and other engines, then we have coders working on a range of languages, we have very good art talent in the room along with sound and music talent.. we even have people developing for Oculus Rift, and others working on hardware/controller technology. So far the people are from a range of different locations around the world. Its a great place to talk about your projects, meet new people, meet up with your team members or simply talk about what your playing right now. When folks are not talking indie the conversation leads to pretty much anything else, its an ideal place to chat about indie related things but also think of it as a general casual chat room too (within reason). Sometimes there is no substitute for a "real time" chat about your project, or getting help on something.

The chat room is on freenode a popular IRC server. There are a few ways of getting to us. If you use an IRC client you can connect with settings I have listed below. I have also created a web client page so people who don't have an IRC client can connect easily though any web browser.
Along with the regular chat, the room also has some interesting features, for example we currently have an RSS indie news feeds messaging into the chat room any time there is any news . The room has many other features like a way to see when a person was last in the room, some amusing text based games, translator system, personal and global statistics and much more that make your stay in the room that little bit more interesting. If you wish you can register with the chat server (freenode) so for example your nick name is protected and cant be used by anyone else.. and other features.



How to find us?


An IRC Client

The ideal way would be to use an IRC client, there are many free ones and payed ones out there, I guess its just a matter of preference I personally use one called mIRC, easy to use. The settings you would put into your IRC client are:

Server: chat.freenode.net
Valid Ports: 6665, 6666, 6667, 8000, 8001, 8002 (SSL ports: 6697, 7000, 7070 )
Room: ##indie-games

More specific regional servers listed here: Freenode.net


Web Browser Connect
I have set up two pages to connect into the chat room with a web browser, the first one is the regular page, but the chat box might be a little too small or even big on some screens. The 2nd link is to a "Full screen Browser" version. If you find the fonts are too small remember you can zoom in on webpages by holding down on "Ctrl" and using your mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Simply type in a nick name you want to use and press connect., if it dose not connect first time try again, it should eventually work.


Regular Chat Page:
http://www.fractalscapes.net/IndieGames/webchat.html

Full Screen Browser Page:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##Indie-Games


Well if you have any questions regarding this don't hesitate to ask either in the room itself or here.. Anyway if you do come in, please be polite and friendly to others, but above all have fun.


Seasons greetings

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly

Hello folks, hope your all enjoying the summer.

Oh I thought to give this post a bump since its been a while.

Regards!