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Ready to level up your Game Developers Conference 2025 experience? 🎮 ✨ Well make sure you take a moment out of your busy schedule to stop by our booth # S1627 - located just steps away from the industry stage at Moscone Center South - and connect with our team! We will be open every day during GDC’s regular hours (10 a.m. - 6 p.m. PT on Wednesday & Thursday, and 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. PT on Friday) and would love to chat with you in person. What we're bringing this year: - 12 presentations with some of our key partners - regular merch giveaways, - a suite of demo stations for you to get hands on with Discord, - and more! Drop a comment below and let us know if you’re planning on being there! #LifeatDiscord #GamesandMore

Game Developers Conference 2025 is almost here… and you know we wouldn’t miss it! 👀 🎮 Discord attending again for the third year in a row! Where will we be? What will we be doing? Stay tuned—more to come soon. 😏 Who’s going to #GDC2025? Drop a 🎮 in the comments!

On Safer Internet Day, and every day, Discord is committed to making the internet as a whole a better, safer place. We’re proud to provide additional tools for our users to make informed choices about their online experiences, and to come together with others in the industry to invest in safety features. Today, we’re announcing that Discord is a founding partner of ROOST.tools, a new cross-industry non-profit foundation that addresses a critical gap in child safety and digital safety by providing free, open-source safety tools to organizations of all sizes. This will alleviate the need for organizations to reinvent the wheel in building tools that already exist, empowering them to focus on growing their platforms or services while also protecting their online users. Other founding partners include OpenAI, Google, Roblox, Special Competitive Studies Project - SCSP, Knight Foundation, AI Collaborative, The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, and Project Liberty. Read more about the foundation here: https://lnkd.in/e5StcA5p. Additionally, our new safety tool, Ignore, is launching globally, giving our users an additional option in their toolbox to manage their social boundaries in a gentler way. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e37SHXKJ

We're excited to present the BEST DISCORD GAME AWARD category with the awesome folks at Discord To all #gamedevs out there! Boost your game's #social and #multiplayer features to the next level with Discord Activities and join the Championship to Win the main prize of💰$5000👀 Check out the details and submit your game here: https://lnkd.in/dSnUtW-t

Have you ever been gifted a game so good that it altered your brain chemistry for the better? We know we have and that's why we work here! Read on to hear more from our very own Emi, Matt, Cody, and Scott about what games they’ve played in December and the best games they’ve ever been gifted!

This is why we’re so dedicated to making Discord the best place to hang out before, during and after gaming. ♥️ “In the early days of the pandemic, Josh Kramer and his wife set up a Discord server to stay in touch with their friends…Now, more than four years later, it's become ‘essential’ for the extended friend group, says Kramer.” Check out the full story below, including insights from our very own Savannah Badalich! "We don't have that endless doomscrolling," Badalich says. "We don't have that place where you're passively consuming content. Discord is about real-time interaction."

🎮 Interested in building interactive Activities on Discord from games to music experiences and more?
 Our very own Justin Beckwith joined Sean Falconer at Software Engineering Daily to discuss why developers looking for a platform to build their game or interactive experience should consider Discord. Spoiler alert - we help you build, share, distribute, get discovered, and monetize your creations. Justin breaks down our developer tools, the tech behind the platform, and tips for getting started. "One of the funnest projects I’ve ever worked on here at Discord has been the release of Activities—making it so that developers can build HTML5 JavaScript games and put them right into Discord. Web games aren’t entirely new, but the twist we’re able to put on it that’s a lot of fun is bringing the social structure to that game. Instead of starting a game on your own and playing solo, you can do it with friends. You can do it in a video call - have context, have video, voice, chat - all of that already taken care of, and bring your game into that environment." Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gG2tTMbG

Discord’s mission is to be the best place for players to talk and hang out before, during, and after gaming. Industry research shows playing video games helps people lift their moods, provides them with a healthy outlet, helps them feel happier and helps them navigate difficult times. And in our recently published research (https://lnkd.in/gsj7dt4m), participants indicated that gaming was one of the most important activities for supporting their mental health. We were so pleased to join Safe In Our World this year in their mission to end the stigma around mental health. SIOW hosted their 2024 Mental Health Game Dev Champions, a worldwide event that invited creatives of all ages and backgrounds to participate in a game jam around the theme of mental health. Discord also recognizes the importance of community, so we were thrilled to host a master class on creating and maintaining healthy spaces on Discord. The Mental Health Game Dev Champions winners were announced this weekend. Did you miss it? You can watch the event here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gFfTeF4d

As the year is ending and many of us are visiting friends and family, it’s the perfect time to share some of the great games we’ve been playing. We've got a fresh list of recs from Veronica, Emi, Tyler, and Carlos that you can serve up to both experienced gamers and the newest of newcomers you'll be seeing soon! https://lnkd.in/gdGC3EWZ

We’re thrilled to share that Discord is on the Deloitte #Fast500 list for the fourth year in a row! We believe Discord has a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and this recognition reflects the great work our team is doing to make Discord the best place to hang out before, during and after playing. If you’re interested in joining us, check out our open job listings here: https://lnkd.in/gAGYcnjf