pretty sure the discord as a whole was a pivot away from a video game (I believe they extracted the chat feature they'd built for the game and ran with that)
I think that’s actually the Slack origin story you’re thinking of, but honestly discord could have the same origin.
Slack and Discord have a lot in common. Both were the founders second attempt at a game company that morphed into a chat platform.
Jason previously founded Aurora Feint, which became the social platform OpenFeint, acquired by Gree.