The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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What is the suggested action for users that post comments as answers?
Most of these users are looking at our site to post a comment - which is harmless, but they usually only have one reputation. So, instead of doing this they instead end up in the review queue with a ...
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Deleted comments in 2013 moderator election
I am concerned about the deletion of at least several comments that have been made on the 2013 Moderator Election nominations page. What is going on here?
I had posted a fairly innocuous comment on ...
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How can the moderators and community managers ensure a fair election?
With the amount of sock puppet activity on the site, and the apparent inability for the community managers and moderators to control it (though I'm sure they're trying hard!), I don't see how the ...
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Off Topic variations
As some of you may know from MSO, there will be changes coming to how we close questions. Among them will be the removal of "too localized" (see below for how that will work) and the addition of ...
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Why can't we embed a video in a question or answer?
Or maybe we can and I just don't know how to do it? Sometimes it's easier to display a video of gameplay and since I understand you don't want code, why not just remove the possibility of putting code ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three ...
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection [closed]
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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getting-started for continuous noob onslaught
It seems almost daily there's a new question about getting started something or other.
There were a bunch of these "getting started" questions in untagged which looked really crufty to me.
I created ...
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I am new to X, … <actual problem with X>, … please help, thank you. Edit, flag or what?
I've seen handful of questions beginning with "I am new to X" which is sometimes followed with an actual problem with typos and lack of formatting, then a plea for help and a "thank you". While ...
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Abused by High-Rep members
A couple of days ago, I posted a question on the Game Development Q&A site. It got +6 votes but nobody could answer the question. However, there appeared to be a war of comments below the post, ...
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Policy on trolling
How to implement artificial intelligence and gravity for enemies in a platformer?
We've got someone using a famous meme username posting rather clear "meant to cause someone a headache" questions and ...
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Removing sock puppet accounts
Lately we've been experiencing a sock puppet issue. This person has multiple accounts, they create poor answers and poor questions. It appears they're now upvoting poor questions (or it's another sock ...
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Can my question be improved?
NPC AI articles for walking and fighting?
I'm still looking for how to implement a walking non-player character which I think is on-topic. I don't really think that the question should have been ...
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Downvoting shouldn't be so easy
This is something I (luckily) rarely have to deal with, but a lot of times I stumble upon very interesting question here, which get good or not so super-precise or explicitly detailed answers.
Often ...
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Why doesn't “trusted user” apply to tag synonyms? Is this a bug?
I'm curious of anybody knows the rationale for excluding the tag synonym suggestion feature from the set of features trusted users are allowed to perform?
It seems particularly odd to me that, as a ...
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Where should I take opinion based discussions?
I happen to have lots of topics I wish to discuss with other game programmers. The problem is that these topics are completely opinion-based, and not question-answer based, and therefore not apt for ...
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There is no point closing something as too localized
I have no doubt that this thread will get many down votes, but lately I often find questions that are closed with "Closed as too localized". What is the point of a Q&A site if questions cannot be ...
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Are switching engine questions okay?
I'm considering switching my game over to a different engine. Would it be an acceptable question to explain what I'm going for, what I'm using, why I'm switching, and ask what engine would best suit ...
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What is a PR-bomb?
@TrevorPowell said he deleted a lot of this question's details due to a "PR-BOMB".
I'm not sure what he means by "PR-BOMB"
To me that question does appear to have an agenda of some sort.
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Are the “game-mechanics” and “game-design” tags redundant?
Anything about game-mechanics which is on-topic is by definition game-design. I could not think of a counterexample, so I've proposed a synonym.
Supporting evidence: gameplay is already synonymous ...
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Why was the 'simple snake game' question protected?
This question (which apparently just picked up a new mediocre answer, thus moving to the top of the questions stack) was apparently auto-protected by Community some time back. My question is why: was ...
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Are programming-game questions acceptable?
I've been trying out an AI programming game lately. It's not really game development per se, but it is AI programming. It also happens to be a difficult topic to search for, having only the terms ...
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Requesting tag synonyms
Note: I could not already find a question on Meta answering this. If there is one, then please provide a link.
I've been looking through the tags recently, and have seen a few that I think deserve to ...
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Is this a separate site from gamedev.se?
I notice I have all the rep from my gamedev account, but none of the badges...? I'm confused. Is this (meta.gamedev) a separate site or not?
Is the rep linked all into one?
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I don't understand the difference between “stackoverflow” and “programmers” [closed]
As the title says.
Damn you 30 characters.
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Generated vs Generation (vs Procedural-Generation and Content-Generation)
Prompted by this question over on main, there seems to be a lot of redundancy/confusion around these tags. I feel like both 'Generated' and 'Generation' are probably bad tags as neither suggests ...
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Should there be a difference between 'state' tags and 'fsm' tags?
Are there any questions that could pertain specifically to a state that are not inherent in an overall fsm (finite state machine)? It seems like any 'state' tag falls under the fsm umbrella because ...
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Is it fine to ask what are tools that could solve your problem?
Say you're confronted with a new problem and you don't know what tools exist to solve it. Is it fine to create a question describing your problem and asking what tools are used for that task?
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Curious for a second-opinion: Would this answer pass review?
Got this in the review stack and though it was pretty borderline. The question asks about a basic implementation of applying an acceleration based on a key press. Here's the answer:
you need to ...
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I'm making a simulation of X, and want to know Y about X
What do we think of questions ostensibly about non-game-making topics which are being asked in order to create a game which simulates those topics accurately?
In meta we had a related conversation ...
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Why should 'How was the technique in X done' be considered off-topic?
We get a lot of people asking about a certain technique in a game.
eg:
How did oldschool dungeon crawlers ie Dungeon Master/Eye of the Beholder render?
How to make SpaceDown / Ninja jump Game ...
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How can I ask this question to make it not “off topic”?
A few days ago I asked this question...
What framework / tools are available for making web based games like Game Dev Story?
I'm a long time stack overflow user, and of course I understand ...
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Should closed questions be retagged?
Usually, untagged questions need tags. However, some untagged questions are closed and some closed questions have bad tags. Retagging would presumably bump them to the front page. (I haven't tried, ...
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Asking Question Guildine
new to this forum and I would like a quick bit of guidance (which doesnt seem to be covered by the site FAQ). I have a question I would like to ask but I can see that it has already been asked and ...
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How can I do X? My idea is to use plan Y. Would that work?
I've recently been noticing a lot of questions which follow a particular formula; they ask a question, then propose an answer, and then ask for confirmation of that answer. It's probably always been ...
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Please review properly!
The activity tab on some frequent reviewers' profiles suggests that they've hit the No Action Needed button for every review task for at least the past 2 months.
Such behaviour is harmful to the ...
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Should I ask Pong questions here or on SO?
Since Pong is a tag at main site SO and not a tag on gamedev, is the preferred place to ask about Pong on SO even if Pong is game development? I saw that Pong runs on some FPGA and asked about it it ...
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What does one look at before answering a question?
I'm curious - I see a lot of questions that go unanswered on the front page, some of my own, some of others, and I'm really wondering - when the community is going through the index page to take time ...
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Why was this answer so popular?
I happened to answer a question, and at the time of this writing, it has gotten 74 upvotes. Much more than my second best answer.
Now, don't take me wrong. I like getting an answer upvoted, because ...
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Can PlayStation Mobile questions be asked here?
PSM is a platform for indie development on the PS Vita and PlayStation Certified Android devices. You code in C# using what it seems to be a heavily modified version of mono, with a rather minimal API ...
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Please stop feeding users editing rep for minor alterations
Over the last few days, a user has edited dozens of posts. That, in and of itself, is not bad. However, his edits are:
In many cases too minor to bother with.
In many cases, are bumping trash to the ...
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How do I ask better questions?
This is oversimplifying things, but every day I find myself having thousands of questions, which usually fall into one of these categories:
Trivial questions: Stuff that I've probably done before, ...
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Is this the site for “How to safely profit from violating copyright” questions?
Specifically, this question.
Note that the two highest upvoted answers, including the accepted one, both agree that yes, the proposed scheme to avoid being caught for profiting from violating ...
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How to close a question with the author’s consent?
I wanted to help close this question where the author says in the comments area that the question can be closed because they didn’t really ask what they were looking for (asked about numerical ...
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How is this question determined to be off-topic?
I asked the question at Can I legally make a free clone of a game and use the same name? because I read a question that basically asked the exact same question in the same forum ( Is it legally ...
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Should we be more exclusive?
I mean this kind of thing is all over but here's an example from today:
I mean there can't be a more stereotypical noob entry "I just wanna make a game" type question.
It's a bad question because ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2013
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that ...
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Is it possible to restrict who can see a question by requiring a non-disclosure agreement?
As game design related questions are more closer to the user experience when playing the game, one could need to allow access to a playable prototype.
But there is always the problem on how to avoid ...
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Is this the site for game design related questions?
Game design questions are more closely related to the experience when playing the game.
I was wondering how to address effectively, questions like the following, using the Stackexchange platform.
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