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I'm an amateur game developer. It's very, very rare I actually get to meet someone else who's into it. Everyone else is either overly impressed, thinking I'm some genius making COD or GTA in my spare time (I am definitely not), or some combination of thinking I'm lying/complete disinterest. It makes me quite sad to see that programming is still relatively niche.
I think there is so much variety even within the developer community that it can be hard to find others with the same exact niche.
Quite true. And, as awful as it sounds, it's also hard to find people at your own level. Whenever I do meet a fellow dev, they're always either just starting or years ahead of me haha. So that either leaves me teaching, or in the dust, never just... jamming.
I've been following a lot of PICO-8 game developers lately (on Mastodon and Discord) and I love seeing all the cool stuff they are doing.