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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MMONOOB tag request
Can we start using a tag called "MMONOOB" or something less direct to indicate that a post is asking "HOW DO I WRITE MY UBER SWEET MMO, NO I HAVEN'T DONE ANY WORK YET, HELP ME?". Then I could just add ...
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How should I select a correct answer to my question?
I've asked a question here:
How should I implement side-scrolling level design?
I have received two answers I think are correct.
One answer seems to be the most accurate for game development in ...
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What to do with answers that mainly consist in a link?
More often than not links in articles work and provide valuable information. But I really hate it when I come across an accepted SE answer, and it mostly consists in a link to the poster’s defunct ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2012 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013
We're hitting the next milestone, and so we begin anew with our Community Promotion Ads!
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going ...
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How to Cite Images
What is the recommended way of citing images? Have a look at this rather good answer - Kevin cites the image directly in the textual (as rendered) portion of the body, where I am more likely to do the ...
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“Where can I find art resources” questions: off topic/not a real question?
Where can I find free game assets?
Where can I find free sprites and images?
Where can I find free sounds for my game?
Where can I find free music for my game?
etc.
These questions are just "list ...
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Does voting to close a bountied question consume your close vote?
This question is, in my opinion, overly subjective, discussion-oriented, and potentially time-sensitive -- in short, a bad question for this site. I tried to vote to close it a while ago, but I was ...
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Help us write an episode for Extra Credits
If you don't know of Extra Credits, you should go check them out:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits
We had James Portnow on the podcast a few weeks ago, and he asked us to send him ...
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Advertisements about proposals that are already in Beta
I have realised that the advertisements about new proposals shown in the right sidebar of gamedev.stackexchange.com are not always updated to their current progress. I initially thought that this was ...
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Gamedev Birthday Celebration
Did you know that Game Development's birthday was on October 21st? Congratulations!
How about a contest or some other fun activity to stir things up a little? After a year of great Q&A, we'd like ...
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So what's the community feeling on someone posting a “review X game (I made) for me” kind of question?
As was mentioned in a few questions, it's crucial to get good advice/input/feedback on your game.
Given the structure of SE sites, I think it would make the most sense if the question was slanted at ...
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Are programming problems (bugs in code) on topic?
From time to time questions with snippets of code crop up and the poster usually asks: "Why doesn't my code work".
Have a look at this recent question for an example of what I mean.
I have been ...
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Is asking for learning resources on topic?
I'm interested in learning a few specific aspects of game programming and I wanted some recommendations. Are "recommendation" questions off topic here?
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BEST BEST BESSSSSSST! argh?
Wish there was a system to prevent people from using the word Best in their question title. :(
Best Methodology for Game Development?
The best algorithm enhancing alpha-beta?
What is the best way ...
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Will there be a great migration once the 3D Graphics site opens?
Once the 3D Graphics, Modeling & Applications site opens, will there be a lot of questions migrated, or does it really matter?
Questions like
Any good screencast for learning blender?
How to ...
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When the bounty goes away?
In this questions, Are the Minecraft animations hardcoded into the game? why the bounty is still there? Shouldn't it go away, when the answer has been selected?
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Is “How was entire game X made?” off-topic?
In the past, we1 decided that "How can I make an entire game like X?" was a bad question. There seems to be a new-ish variant of this, "What technology did entire game X use?"
What technology does ...
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Advertising for a post-doc positing in gaming [closed]
Clearly gamedev is not a good place to advertise a post-doctoral position which focuses on certain aspects of game development. Problem is, I don't really know of good places (which do not charge ...
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Outdated answered questions
If there's a question and an accepted answer for it, the same question basically should not be asked again. However, it's not unusual for the field to advance, and thus some q/a pairs might be ...
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Washing Gamedev T-shirt
Some of you have received your swag packages. Grats!
I just want to stress that, when you wash your gamedev.se t-shirt, PLEASE make sure you turn it inside out, use cold water and non-bleach ...
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Are legal questions allowed here?
Despite this legal questions having been discussed, at least one user keeps commenting on legal questions saying they are off-topic.
Have we decided that these questions are definitively on or off ...
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Asking opinions about the architecture you have designed?
Is it ok to ask for opinions and corrections on the very specific architecture you've designed for a game, posting class diagrams and other detailed information?
I was thinking that perhaps questions ...
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What to do with abandoned questions?
There are some questions that keep getting bumped by the Community-bot although they seem to be abandoned by the original poster (example).
How to deal with these? What happens to questions that are ...
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Do the badge requirements make sense given the size of the community?
Obviously gamedev will continue to grow; stackoverflow wasn't built in a day, for instance.
But it does seem fairly obvious that there are a heck of a lot more "developers" out there than there are ...
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The tag and-engine should be andengine, as it is on SO
I recently created a question with the tag and-engine. This should not have a hyphen (there is no space, or hyphen in AndEngine) and should be andengine, as it is on SO.
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Do you participate in Global Game Jam events?
[This is a companion question to the one I asked yesterday about IGDA membership.]
IGDA runs an annual Global Game Jam in locations all over the world. Have you ever participated in one? Would you ...
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Are you an IGDA member?
I am looking into partnering with IGDA in some undetermined way. It remains to be seen how they can help GDSE (and vice versa), but in exploring the options, I've come across a fairly important set of ...
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Let's have a presence at GDC Online in October
GDC Online is in Austin, Texas from October 10th-13th. Would you guys like GDSE to have some kind of presence there? We could do this in one of a few ways:
Sponsoring a community member to attend ...
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Request: Relax a bit on moderation and don't be so eager to shut down questions
The moderation lately has been getting harsh. It's too severe in my book, and is not conducive to creating a welcoming or even useful community environment. New people should not be afraid to ask ...
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“Review this for me” questions
Sometimes we get questions that essentially amount to "review a product/project". Examples:
Google's ForPlay library, where does it fall down?
DarkGDK good or not?
What are the pro/cons of Unity3D ...
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Difference between official and non-official moderator
What's the difference between access to moderator tool(which requires 10000 rep point) and being an moderator(official moderator)?
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Do you need game testers? We can help
If you've got a game that's ready for testing (or will be within the next few weeks), we'd like to help you find some testers. We're going to try out our potential Developer/Tester matchup program in ...
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It's time for us to bring the CHAOS to Game Development
Game developers! I'm Abby, a member of the fabled CHAOS team at Stack Exchange. You might have seen me around if you hang out on Ask Different ever - I'm in charge of the CHAOS mayhem on that site. ...
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Accept rate discussion in question
I have an accept rate of 20%.
Everytime I open a new question now, I get comments such as Oh, you should up your accept rate, and Oh, its funny you didn't accept any answers.
I think these comments ...
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Devkit Questions
There's been a couple of questions relating to devkits, and console development details. Specifically, one asking What comes with a SDK, what language is used in an unreleased console, and ...
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What's the best way to add videos to questions?
Often, a video can be a great help to visualise a problem.
But on many questions, the person asking just links to someserver.sometld/somedir/somevideo.someEsotericFormat, which might not even be ...
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Famous games written in
Does anyone see a genuine reason for asking this type of question?
My first instinct is to say that people ask this question to try to argument better their choice of language, therefore the question ...
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Advertising free (as in freedom) projects on Game Development
What is the policy for advertising your free (as in "free software" not as in "freeware") own projects on Gave Development? Is that welcome?
If yes, are there any guidelines one should abide by?
The ...
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A lot of answers remain unselected [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
A good answer exists but is not accepted
A lot of questions in game dev have answers but they are not selected as an answer of the question. Can the situation be ...
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Duplicate answers
For example; a question that has a perfectly good answer that has been accepted, has lots of upvotes and generally covers everything.
For some insane reason, people think that by posting an answer ...
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Rep. Loss for Downvoting spam
There was an answer to this question that was blaitent advertizing, and as many other people, I downvoted it and flagged it.
When this 'answer' is deleted will the rep from the downvotes be restored? ...
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Has the -1 rep for downvoting a question or answer gone?
I haven't noticed a loss in rep for doing that recently; also on Gaming.
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1answer
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Plug for Area 51 proposal
I'd like to plug an Area 51 proposal that might be relevant for many game developers. What's the best way for me to do that on Game Dev? It seems odd to make that into a question somehow. Even if I ...
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what is the exact meaning of a downvote/upvote?
I've had an idea to upvote an answer when it's right and I like it, and downvote it whenever the answer is wrong. about questions I had the idea to upvote whenever I think that question might be ...
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Almost every question get's at least one up, even if they are bad
I'm not one of the big-regulars on this but lately it's come to my attention that almost every question on gamedev get's at least one up vote. But as I see it, some questions really don't deserve this ...
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Game Development Stack Exchange swag for top users
As a thank you for being awesome, if you are on page 1 or page 2 of …
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
… we'll be sending you a little care package ...
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Game Development Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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Need for software-design tag?
There was a question on Game Development where the tag didn't really fit the bill, but a "suitable" tag doesn't really exist.
Software Design/Modelling method and tool for games?
The question is ...
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Can we have more visible question highlighting?
I find the faint yellow background given to "interesting" posts (those that have some of my favourite tags on them) a little too faint. Depending on my angle to the screen, I sometimes can't discern ...
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A good answer exists but is not accepted
I have been trawling through this site for a while, and I often go to answer questions that already have a more than acceptable answer, only the person that asked the question either doesn't deem it a ...
