Discord built internal games for years to test its embedded app platform
Jason Citrin · How Discord Became a Developer Platform · Jun 23, 2024 · at 20:40
Jason Citron is the co-founder and CEO of Discord, discussing the development timeline behind Discord's Activities SDK and embedded app framework.
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“Rather than just opening it up, we actually built a few games ourselves to really test the platform, make sure that it was designed well, that it worked for players, that the interaction loops were good and that, you know, took a couple years to kind of sort that all out, and now we're at the point where, okay, we're ready to open it up, so it's in developer preview”
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