# Discourse for Game Communities
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-game-communities/44804
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [May 25, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-game-communities/44804 "2016-05-25T20:16:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-game-communities/44804/1 "2016-05-25T20:16:16Z")
Originally published at: [Discourse for Game Communities](https://blog.discourse.org/2016/05/discourse-for-game-communities/)
About a week ago we sent out a brief survey to the game-maker segment of our customer base, looking for some insights on how they make the most out of Discourse, and what else they’d like to see added to it. Game companies have been some of the biggest Discourse success stories, which is no…
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-game-communities/44804/5 "2016-05-25T21:31:45Z")
Great post @erlend_sh!
And love the site list, gotta get some ideas for my own instance of gaming forum.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-game-communities/44804/6 "2016-05-25T21:33:50Z")
Shoot! I forgot to nudge one of my favourite new (non-customer) Discourse forums about the surevey, [https://boards.faeria.com/](https://boards.faeria.com/). If anyone wants some styling inspiration, that one’s a must-see.
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### Author:  [@Yetidragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yetidragon)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2016, 8:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-game-communities/44804/7 "2016-07-04T08:58:38Z")
I find it a bit curious that one of the features mentioned as awesome by the communities polled is the badge system… not because it isn’t good, I think it is AWESOME and we use it extensively on our own forum [http://forum.combustionpunks.co.uk/badges](http://forum.combustionpunks.co.uk/badges)
but because there doesn’t seem to be much custom use on the forums surveyed.
We are really wanting to push the use of the badges on our forum and are looking at how other forums utilise the system as per my post here [Who is extensively using the badge system?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-is-extensively-using-the-badge-system/46770) and I am looking for inspiration from how other communities use the badges.
Anyone know of any forums pushing the badge system?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-game-communities/44804/8 "2016-07-04T12:01:19Z")
> [@Yetidragon](#):
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> there doesn’t seem to be much custom [badge] use on the forums surveyed.
That’s a good observation. We can continue this discussion in your dedicated topic.
> [@Who is extensively using the badge system?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-is-extensively-using-the-badge-system/46770/2):
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> Well, you guys certainly are! I love that some of your badges also come in the form of physical stickers. So cool. Every community ought to have at least one badge that’s cool enough that you’d want it as a sticker to put on your laptop/fridge/car etc. The only other good example that comes to mind right now is Envato: They’ve got some nice special badges for things like Affiliates, Nationality, Top Seller and API users. Just wish they’d categorise their badges!