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How should we create / adjust tags to account for Godot versioning?
Godot 4.x has numerous differences from 3.x, so it seems logical that it should have its own tag. But that would leave us with Godot & ...
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Is it off-topic to ask about developing game consoles here?
I've asked this question on Arqade and this was one of the sites I was directed to, so I'm seriously hoping I can find a place where I can ask this. Anyway, here's a bit of context: my friend and I ...
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How should we deal with edits that 'evolved' a question?
I just ran into a proposed edit to this question in the review queue. The edit seemed reasonable on the surface - there was some dead text from an image link that had been partially removed on a ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned
You may have seen a similar policy announced on StackOverflow's meta. While it's not enforced network-wide, we the moderators feel that the risk of posting plausible-sounding generated answers rather ...
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Show us your [in-development] game! - Gamedev's Winter/Summer Bash 2022 Showcase! [closed]
It's that time of year again! With 2447 questions asked and 1889 answers provided during the past year, we've been able to help a lot of folks! Likely, some of our users have been able to publish a ...
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Are questions about how to use WebGL2 on topic?
I am new to the site, but not to the SE network. The reason that I signed up for Game Development is that I have a bunch of questions related to WebGL2, and how it can be used for 2D rendering for ...
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Do we want to update the link to the MathJax help in the help pages? If so, to where?
It's been recently brought to our attention that Stack Exchange staff can change the Learn more: MathJax help. link in the Markdown help section LaTeX. It currently points to an external site: An ...
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Is the "How are NP-Hard problems managed in game development contexts?" question a "good subjective", should it be reopened?
This question has recently been closed as Needs more focus. Although I agree that the question is not about an exact single real-world problem that a user is currently facing during the development of ...
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Show us your in-development game! - Gamdev's Septemberbash 2022 Showcase! [closed]
The vacation season is coming to an end, and while it has been a moment to rest and have a good time with the ones we love, it has also been a good time for some of you to work hard on your next game. ...
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Why isn't the markdown created table displaying correctly
When I addded this autoconverted table in Edit- it shows correctly but in the final post it is all messed up- how to create mark down table so it works? Stage Startup Pre-action (~1s) Action Attacker ...
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Should we throttle Community bot bumps on GameDev.StackExchange?
StackExchange sites have a "Community" user bot that occasionally bumps questions under certain circumstances: The question is open and not deleted The question was not recently active The ...
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Why was I unable to use the very low quality flag?
Today I encountered a GDSE question that was not in English. As per this guidance on meta I tried to flag it as Very Low Quality. As a result, I got a popup message ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Should we merge the 'import' and 'importing' tags?
We have both import and importing as separate tags (and no guidance for either). My quick survey of them found two general use cases: Bringing some sort of game asset from one system to another. For ...