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*Note: This guide was published on March 9th 2026 and was last updated on March 9th 2026.*
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In order to start building a community you’ll need to start by creating a new Discord server. If you have an existing playtest or development server, you can modify it to become your community, especially if you’ve already got players in there!
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Once the server exists, enable the **Community** feature in Server Settings. For an in-depth guide into requirements and setup of Community Servers check out our [Enabling Your Community Server guide](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-Enabling-Your-Community-Server).
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This unlocks a few tools that matter for a game developer:
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-**Server Discoverability**: With Community enabled, players can find and join your server through Discord's discovery features. This is how your server shows up when players search for your game.
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-**Server Insights**: Once 500 members join, you get detailed engagement and retention data like weekly communicators, what channels are most used, where people are coming from, and much more. [Read more about server insights here](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032807371-Server-Insights-FAQ).
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<Tip>
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Give your channels a topic by right clicking the channel then > Edit Channel > Channel Topic. This topic will display next to the channel’s name when it’s open, reminding players what is appropriate to talk about in that channel.
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With a nitro boosted community server you can get access to custom role icons that make it even easier to spot a developer or moderator at a glance.
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To set up Onboarding, go to Server Settings > Onboarding. [Read more about setting up onboarding here](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/11074987197975-Community-Onboarding-FAQ).
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You can preview what your onboarding looks like to a new player by going to Server Settings > Onboarding and selecting Preview.
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-**Role assignment**: Automatically gives a member one or more roles the moment they accept an invite. You can create these directly in Discord's UI without any code, or generate them programmatically through the API. Either way, the role sticks even after the invite expires and a user can get the roles even if they’re already in your server.
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-**Targeted invites**: Lets you upload a list of specific Discord user IDs. Only those users can see and accept the invite. This lets you control exactly who gets in, rather than anyone with the link.
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### What You Can Do With Them
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If you’ve implemented the Discord Social SDK, your Rich Presence can include a "Join the Community" button visible to all of a player's Discord friends while they’re in your game. This makes every player a passive advocate for your server to their entire social graph.
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<Cardtitle="How Do I Get My Game Seen?"href="/developers/game-development/how-to-get-your-game-seen"icon={<UserStatusIcon />}horizontal>
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Click the Events tab at the top of your server and then Create Event. You can set the event in a stage channel, a voice channel, or at an external link if you're streaming somewhere else. Set a start time, title, write a short description, and publish it. Members will see it in the server and can choose to be notified when it begins. Use your `#announcements` channel to broadcast that you created an event and tag relevant roles that might be interested in it for better visibility.
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*Note: This guide was published on March 9th 2026 and was last updated on March 9th 2026.*
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Improving your Rich Presence integration is one of the easiest ways to start getting more value out of Discord. In this article we'll cover everything you need to know to integrate more tightly with Discord and start finding new players.
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<img src="/images/game-development/how-to-get-your-game-seen/portal-rich-presence-assets.webp" alt="The Developer Portal where you upload Rich Presence image assets" style={{width: "auto", height: "auto"}} />
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<img src="/images/game-development/how-to-get-your-game-seen/portal-rich-presence-assets.webp" alt="The Developer Portal where you upload Rich Presence image assets" />
<img src="/images/game-development/how-to-get-your-game-seen/rich-presence-images.webp" alt="Rich Presence with images set" />
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Combining game invites with lobbies in the Social SDK allows players to join their friends both through your game and through Rich Presence in Discord. For multiplayer games this is huge! Your future players are already on Discord and they can now join their friends directly through invites or ask to join friends without even launching the game. For a complete implementation guide of lobbies and invites using the Social SDK see [Managing Game Invites](/developers/discord-social-sdk/development-guides/managing-game-invites) and [Managing Lobbies](/developers/discord-social-sdk/development-guides/managing-lobbies).
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Building and publishing a game is hard. Getting players to discover, share, and play it is even harder. With dozens of incredibly strong games released each day, some with huge marketing budgets, it's harder than ever to build a player base and keep it strong. That doesn't mean it's impossible to do though, and Discord has a set of tools to help you.
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