Staff Developer Advocate for Games at Discord.
Founder on Agones (game server orchestration) and Quilkin (UDP Proxy) Open Source Projects.
Was at Google Cloud for a long time.
Occasional YT & Twitch.
he/him
I talk mostly about game development on this account, but see linktree for my other accounts.
| linktree | http://linktr.ee/markmandel |
| Agones | https://agones.dev |
| Quilkin | https://github.com/googleforgames/quilkin |
We did a recent livestream of all the developer items for games that Discord announced at GDC earlier this year Including:
π§βπ€βπ§ Community
π Claiming Your Game
π Account Linking
π Social Commerce
π» Instant Play Quests
β¬οΈ Check it out! β¬οΈ
Starting in 12 minutes, we'll be doing a recap of all the game developer product announcements we had at GDC 2026, in our Discord Developers Server!
Come and join!
https://discord.gg/discord-developers?event=1475935134506025001
Coming hot on the heels of our repository migration - here's the official CNCF announcement of Agones moving to sandbox. Delighted to be joined by friends from Ubisoft on this one with our upcoming keynote!
Just in time for Kubecon EU this week, Agones moves it's repository over to CNCF, and we've officially become a sandbox project in the CNCF - which is a HUGE milestone! π
We've still got some pieces to migrate over, and lots of onboarding, but you can now find us at:
Now I'm out from under GDC, I can focus my attention on Kubecon EU coming up next week!
Who is going to be around and wants to talk about backends for multiplayer games, Agones, open source or just share pictures of our dogs?
Drop me an line!
With Agones moving to the CNCF, I'm excited to be keynoting Kubecon EU with Jean-FranΓ§ois Hubert, Development Director at Ubisoft (albeit for 3 minutes, But it'll be fun I promise! π)
We're doing a quick runthrough of how Ubisoft orchestrates multiplayer games with Agones! ππ»
Hopefully see many of you there!
Looking forward to seeing many of you at GDC! Drop me a line if you want to catch up, I'll be around!
Doing all the good things, Discord stuff, Agones stuff, open source things, booth talks, GDC talks, lots of fun things.
Also here's everything we're doing at Discord ππ»
Ever send a Discord invite and then have to remember to assign roles when they join? What if you could embed the roles directly β¨ in the invite itself? β¨
You can now do that with Community Invites! Come learn how next Tuesday with Anthony TeΕ‘ija and I ππ»
https://discord.com/invite/discord-developers?event=1469500734113316924
