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Why are there no games? You know what? You don’t need to call it gamedev.stackexchange.com because there is no game!

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I want to ask a question about NFC, but I don't have enough reputation to create the tag. Can someone create it, or is there a similar tag to this?

Our tags for Gamemaker are game-maker and game-maker-studio-2. This tool hasn't been called "Game Maker" since 2012 when its name changed. (thanks @liggiorgio!) Should we change these tags ...

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I noticed that the BSP-tree tag (3 questions) is not linked to the the binary space partitioning tag (29 questions & also synonyms with bsp). I don't have enough tag rep to propose synonyms using ...

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Here is a link to the question (on Arqade) - link Here is a link to the question (on GameDev SE - link Here is the question: Has Riot Games ever said anything about putting VALORANT on Steam? Have ...

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I’m currently exploring different platforms for Godot-related discussions and I’m interested in your preferences. Do you usually turn to the official Godot forums, the Godot subreddit, gamedev....

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I am trying to develop a reboot of a very old game. Can I ask a questions here asking others to help me identify certain elements of that game? For example, can I ask to identify a font name (exact or ...

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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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I'm using Construct 3 a lot and I noticed that there are very few questions about Construct here, under the construct-2 tag. Most of these questions, obviously, refer to Construct 2, its previous, ...

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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 & ...

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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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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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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