The indie dev community is actually really great at supporting each other, lots of devs make sure to share and wish list games they like as they know the value in those actions as they would also love them too.
There is something you can also do that most people completely miss and it’s incredibly simple and selfless and might go unnoticed.
Asking basic questions.
Yup, that’s all. Being a developer yourself you might see another game and think “oh yeah that is a cool use of the physics engine. I like it.” and then just share the post.
Of course that is great and all devs will be thankful, but don’t forget not everyone seeing this post will be a developer and know what they are looking at.
Ask the developer public questions about things that are obvious to you.
Such as “how did you make the character fall like that?”
This has 2 huge benefits
1. Untrained people get to learn something about the game they probably would have missed.
2. The developer has a reason to post an answer, which means they get more content and more info out about their game.
This beats the developer just randomly posting “oh I made a cool thing happen in the physics engine, look” - Most devs just don’t think about this.
Be cool.
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