mesa177 wroteI would recommend you check out the Lebanese Game Developers FB page and attend their meetups. Sometimes we hold a conjoined workshop with them and Arab Arcade at Lamba Labs to discuss game development.
You'd definitely have an interested audience there.
I'm looking to discuss from the consumer side. Do you think devs can have objective opinions about mechanics and game systems without affecting their opinions by discussing feasibility, difficulty of implementation, etc?
A consumer does not care how hard a dev worked on a system if the system is unintuitive or just bad. A dev might think about how hard it is and give it a pass. That opinion is not very valuable to a customer who is looking for results.
Dunno if you get what I'm getting at