The tags tag has no wiki summary.
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Tag suggestion: Reverse-Engineering
I often see questions where a user is interested not in copying a game as a whole but in pulling apart a particular game mechanic in order to better understand how it works and apply this to their own ...
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Sides of tags show through error message
I accidentally clicked downvote on a question and observed this:
This bug is unique to GameDev, due to having triangles on the side of tags here:
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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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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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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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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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Gameplay tag synonym for game-design
I've just gained the privilege edit synonyms (yipeeh!), this gave me an excuse to browse around the synonyms database to see what was going on in there.
Turns out, I'm very surprised that gameplay is ...
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Are the entity-system and component-based tags describing the same thing?
We have these two tags: entity-system and component-based.
I am under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that an entity system is exactly the same thing as a component-based system, and that they are ...
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Tag for the “Minecraft genre”?
I see a lot of questions which (implicitly or explicitly) are about making Minecraft (Infiniminer, Ace of Spades, Cube World, whatever) style games — to be more specific, let's say games where the ...
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Can we get a cocos2d-x tag?
This port is growing by the days and a lot people unsure about it just uses cocos2d and cocos2d-iphone, whose implementation in essentially different.
I would create it but I'm still working my way ...
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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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Edit tags command not found next to tag list in questions
On Stack Overflow, there is an "edit tags" button or somesuch that will appear when you mouse-over the area to the right of the tag list on a question. It allows you to edit the tags of a question ...
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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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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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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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Why do Ignored Tags just highlight out, rather than disappearing like on SO?
Obviously there are some questions I can't answer, nor am I that interested in them (e.g. facebook). I tried adding them to the ignored tags list, but they just show up slightly grey. I was expecting ...
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Is there any way to disable frequent-tag highlighting?
Apparently I have been frequently visiting questions that have an 'ai' tag. Now questions with an 'ai' tag appear highlighted in yellow. Is there any way to disable this?
I tried going to 'set tag ...
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Adding the tag to the title. Yes or no?
See this question as an example.
The user added OpenGL to the title, and tagged the question OpenGL. What do you think about the "tag" being in the title?
I know that over at gaming SE, you ...
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Can community moderators be given permission to enable software-enforced blacklisting of tags?
In the "useless tags" thread we've identified several tags that we'd like to avoid, such as design. However nothing prevents users from actually using those blacklisted tags, which creates something ...
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Genre specific tags
Now I have tag privileges again, I've been trying to do my bit to help organise some questions. However, I did see a couple with very vague tags such as 'game-design'. Obviously this is fine, but it ...
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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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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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Required tags (discussion, bug, etc.) duplicated?
For some reason, when I try to add any of the discussion, bug, or status-bydesign tags to my questions here on meta, that tag is listed in the suggestions list twice. Then, once I choose one of them, ...
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gamedev tag is useless
I see some questions tagged as gamedev. A similar issue was addressed on Stack Overflow Meta a while back.
Recommendation: This tag is useless and should never be used, since everything on this Game ...
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Possible bug in listing tags?
This could be more of a stack exchange bug, but I haven't seen it anywhere but here.
This question is tagged "xna" but the page to list the tag as nothing in it. Has anyone else seen this? Is is a ...
