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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Community Promotion Ads - 2H 2011 [duplicate]
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Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2012
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?
TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2012 [duplicate]
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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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Programming Questions: Here or “Belongs on Stackoverflow”?
I know the features wouldn't be installed until this SE makes it out of the public beta. But in the event that it does, I think that this is something that we should be prepared for.
What would the ...
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The “these tags are useless” thread
Instead of having a bunch of threads on individual tags, how about we try a wiki-style list.
In each answer, put the tag in question as well as your rationale as to why that tag should be removed. ...
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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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Proper solution for legal questions?
We get a question every few weeks that isn't really a question about game development, but a question about copyright or contract law.
I really do not think such questions have a place here; by their ...
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Why should the GameDev site exist?
I understand this question will probably be downvoted a lot, because it is seen only by people already using the site, but still:
I have some doubts regarding whether it is beneficial the game ...
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Design for Game Development Site
Hi all. I'm Jin and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflects its topic. However, ...
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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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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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Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
We closed the domain naming thread (click for details).
Instead, let's start with a killer "elevator pitch!" Joel will be blogging about the elevator pitch approach to naming, but to get you ...
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Should the “design” tag encompass architecture AND game design questions?
I'm a game designer and my main area of expertise is that, game design. While i find the technical aspects of a game program interesting, I expected finding game design related questions when ...
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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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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 ...
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Questions that are “list of X”
A lot of the questions currently on the site are things like "Give me a list of options for X".
There is a decent amount of precedence for these kinds of questions being discouraged on StackExchange ...
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Professional game developers and NDAs
Assumption: we want as many professionals on the site asking as many "long-tail" expert questions as possible. From Joel Spolsky's post re: firearm SE proposal:
Excellent suggestion. One thing to ...
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Logo Proposals for Game Development
Please post as answers below, your logo proposals for this site.
Rules:
Original artwork only.
You need to have a copy of your submission in a vector format.
Stolen from here
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Game design questions: should we be more lax with regard to SE's question/answer format?
By adhering to a strict non-open-ended, non-chatty, question/answer format, it becomes pretty much impossible to help people to improve their game design. So instead of covering questions that ...
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What should our domain be? [duplicate]
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Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
Note:
We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain ...
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404 (Page Not Found) Image Nominations
I noticed this was missing here, so...
What should the 404 image be for this site?
Should it be funny like the other ones or more serious?
Please post only one image with source per answer for ...
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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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The word “game” in tags is redundant.
I've noticed a few tags of the form "game-design" and "game-engine". Well, yeah. It's about games. We're on the Gamedev beta.
I've gone and stripped out "game" from all of these, just to get it done ...
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Do mod- and map-making questions belong here?
Currently at gaming meta there are discussions about Do “mod-development” questions belong here? and Do “map-editor” questions belong here?. There was also a suggestion to send these questions to ...
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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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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 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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12 Hours of GDSE: Is quality going downhill?
I have just harvested the questions asked on Gamedev.SE in the last 12 hours (from when I started writing this). Here they are, from most recent to last:
The most popular pattern for game-related ...
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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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Are “why did game X do Y questions” not constructive?
I am bringing this up because of this question:
What constraint (if any) limits crowd animation variety?
What's being asked in this case is: why did these companies make this decision?
I feel like ...
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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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A small idea to prevent new users from posting subjective questions
I don't usually hang around on meta, so not sure if this has been discussed before. But just a suggestion.
Seems to me one of the silliest, most frequent duffs that happens on gamedev (and SO as ...
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Are questions abut popular game mechanics and gameplay irrelevant?
How do you prevent inflation in a virtual economy?
Penalty for collision during casual top-down racing gameplay
I noticed Byte56 said these questions about gameplay mechanics are unrelated to this ...
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Is asking for a real-world weapon that has specific characteristics on topic for a game development question?
I asked the following question:
In Mechwarrior 2, you had to keep your crosshairs on the enemy for 5 seconds to obtain a lock for LRM missiles. Is this at all realistic? What real-world missile ...
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Is this really a good question?
I was looking through the questions and I found this one:
"What are the typical day-to-day tasks of an entry level games programmer?"
After some thought I decided that I wanted to close that ...
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2011 Community Moderator Election
The 2011 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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Why don't we allow repeat questions?
I am wondering why we would discourange repeat questions or reffer similar questions to answers that may or may not fully expound the current question.
My though behind this, we should not ...
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Are questions about the game industry welcome here?
I recently asked a question about the size of our industry, and the reactions it sollicited were very unexpected (for me at least). A sizable part of the community (or at least a very vocal part) ...
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What is a good question about Game industry careers?
I saw this question
' Is this really a good question? '
asking about a game development career related question. The conclusion was the question asked about should be closed. The reasoning was not ...
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tags: security vs. anti-cheat
I've added security to two questions tagged anti-cheat, then I realized there is no clear question which addresses "anti-cheat" without being also more in general related to "security".
I'd like us ...
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Cross posting programming questions on Stackoverflow and GameDev.StackExchange
What are the etiquette involved when cross-posting programming questions on StackOverflow and GameDev.StackExchange? Or is it a case of "don't do it?"
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The Subjective Tag
Are we going to have it? I know there is a discussion going on in the Meta.SO community about whether or not the Subjective Tag should just be removed.
There it would face considerably more ...
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Should this question be reopened as community wiki?
The question, Audio programming resources, was recently closed. Should it instead be reopened as a community wiki? And "reopening as community wiki" even a thing?
I originally answered it since I ...
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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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Should Game Development - StackExchange submit an entry to the Mozilla Game On competition?
Mozilla has a competition going for open web games with a closing date of 1/11/11. It'd be great promotion for this community if some of us were to get together and develop something fun and ...
