Staff Developer Advocate for Games at @Discord. Founder on @agonesdev & @quilkindev. Was at @GoogleCloud for a long time. Occasional YT & Twitch. He/him.
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Joined May 2007
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Not going to be here very much - find me over at any of the other locations in linktr.ee/markmandel.
We did a recent livestream of all the developer items for games that Discord announced at GDC earlier this year Including:
🧑🤝🧑 Community
🛄 Claiming Your Game
🔗 Account Linking
🛒 Social Commerce
💻 Instant Play Quests
⬇️ Check it out! ⬇️
youtube.com/watch?v=B7ymhBZX…
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nice to see Agones part of CNCF finally @Neurotic - a whole lot of gaming companies have been using it to scale gaming infrastructure cncf.io/blog/2026/03/23/agon…
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!
discord.gg/discord-developer…
🎉 Big news over the weekend for @agonesdev!
The application for Agones to join @CloudNativeFdn at the Sandbox level is now live!
Now we wait for the CNCF TOC to review and (hopefully 🤞🏻) approve!
🙏🏻 Huge thanks to literally everyone who ever contributed to this project!
Wed 11am US Pacific, I'll be joined by my wonderful teammate Jameka March to talk about about Discord Webhooks! 🕸️🪝
Ever wonder how you get information to your backend about what's happening in Discord (or the Social SDK?) come on down and listen in!
discord.gg/discord-developer…
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📣 Agones community
I'm proposing Agones join @linuxfoundation to grow our set of collaborators, setup a formal TSC, and better communication with Google over our test/build infra, to resolve recent issues.
Please share your thoughts on the ticket!
github.com/googleforgames/ag…
After a decade in the games industry, I'm finally on my way to Tokyo Game Show next week for the first time ever 🛫🗼
Who else will I be seeing there?
What should I know before I go?
In our recent @discord Developers talk, we were joined by several fantastic product folks to step you through how you remove the development rate limits on the Discord Social SDK.
Check out the recording below 👇🏻
youtu.be/AlGrtgnCFc4?si=SVyG…
I forgot to post these photos from #devcom a few weeks ago. Just another awesome game server implementation on top of @agonesdev! 🥳
Definitely seeing a bunch of Karpenter combined with Agones these days 🤔🔨
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Thursday 12pm US PST I'm hosting two of our product team members on the Discord Developers Server to step through the requirements for removing development rate limits for the Social SDK Communication Features.
Come join and bring your questions! 👇🏻
discord.gg/discord-developer…
ALT Social SDK: Going Live with Communications Features
I think I'm trapped in Gamescom. Is the game trying to leave? I've left before. I think? Maybe I never left
It's day 214 at Gamescom. You've become fused to a game controller. Your physical presence is in quantum singularity between the Radisson and the Business Cafe inside the convention centre. All you can say now is "Trade pass?" as you pass through turnstiles for eternity.
Need more YouTube content? Want to see my face more? 😆
Today we launched the @discord Developers YouTube channel!
We've got tutorials for your Discord server, case studies with studios using the Social SDK, and 2025 GDC talks 👇🏻
youtube.com/@DiscordDevelope…
Excited to be sitting down with Ashley Cook from Facepunch Studios to discuss how and why Rust implemented Discord’s social infrastructure to bring Discord features to their game at #devcom in a few weeks!
Details: 👇🏻
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What are you doing on Thursday? Are you a Unity developer?
Then come join us for "Building Games with Unity + Social SDK" in our Discord Developer Server with @AntonTesh!
See you there! 👇🏻
discord.com/invite/discord-d…
🚀 12pm PT today (in 2h ⏱️): @discord Social SDK Eng team presents "Powering Player Connections: How Discord's Social SDK Boosts Your Game"!
Learn how the Social SDK integrates your players' friends lists & social graphs, and the benefits you can get!
discord.gg/discord-developer…
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I'll be presenting "Introduction to the @discord Social SDK" at the @IGDA Foundation - Alumni Weekend - this weekend! 🥳
It's a free virtual event (although donations appreciated!)
igdafoundation.org/alumni-we…
I'm on at 7pm Pacific ⏱️, but it runs all day Saturday and Sunday.
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