As you use Game Development - Stack Exchange to ask and answer questions, you’ll earn badges, which appear on your user page and in your user card.
| Altruist × 16 | First bounty you manually awarded on another person's question | |
| Analytical × 314 | Visited every section of the FAQ | |
| Announcer × 81 | Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses | |
| Archaeologist | Edited 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months | |
| Autobiographer × 5105 | Completed all user profile fields | |
| Benefactor × 58 | First bounty you manually awarded on your own question | |
| Beta × 95 | Actively participated in the private beta | |
| Booster × 8 | Shared a link to a question that was visited by 300 unique IP addresses | |
| Caucus × 102 | Visited an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote | |
| Citizen Patrol × 489 | First flagged post | |
| Civic Duty × 68 | Voted 300 or more times | |
| Cleanup × 43 | First rollback | |
| Commentator × 892 | Left 10 comments | |
| Constituent × 58 | Voted for a candidate in the final phase of an election | |
| Convention × 13 | 10 posts with score of 2 on meta | |
| Copy Editor × 2 | Edited 500 posts | |
| Critic × 794 | First down vote | |
| Custodian × 155 | Completed at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type | |
| Deputy × 5 | Raised 80 helpful flags | |
| Disciplined × 11 | Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher | |
| Editor × 2641 | First edit | |
| Electorate × 15 | Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions | |
| Enlightened × 442 | First to answer and accepted with at least 10 upvotes | |
| Enthusiast × 324 | Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days | |
| Epic | Earned 200 daily reputation 50 times | |
| Excavator × 90 | Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months | |
| Famous Question × 24 | Asked a question with 10,000 views | |
| Fanatic × 70 | Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive days | |
| Favorite Question × 66 | Question favorited by 25 users | |
| Generalist | Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags | |
| Good Answer × 243 | Answer score of 25 or more | |
| Good Question × 158 | Question score of 25 or more | |
| Great Answer × 6 | Answer score of 100 or more | |
| Great Question × 6 | Question score of 100 or more | |
| Guru × 39 | Accepted answer and score of 40 or more | |
| Investor × 23 | First bounty you offered on another person's question | |
| Legendary | Earned 200 daily reputation 150 times | |
| Marshal | Raised 500 helpful flags | |
| Mortarboard × 67 | Earned at least 200 reputation in a single day | |
| Necromancer × 93 | Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more | |
| Nice Answer × 1533 | Answer score of 10 or more | |
| Nice Question × 950 | Question score of 10 or more | |
| Notable Question × 339 | Asked a question with 2,500 views | |
| Organizer × 221 | First retag | |
| Outspoken × 16 | Posted 10 messages in chat that were starred by 10 different users | |
| Peer Pressure × 73 | Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower | |
| Popular Question × 1455 | Asked a question with 1,000 views | |
| Populist × 7 | Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x | |
| Precognitive × 73 | Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase | |
| Promoter × 111 | First bounty you offered on your own question | |
| Proofreader × 7 | Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits | |
| Publicist × 2 | Shared a link to a question that was visited by 1000 unique IP addresses | |
| Pundit × 17 | Left 10 comments with score of 5 or more | |
| Quorum × 159 | One post with score of 2 on meta | |
| Research Assistant × 2 | Edited 50 tag wikis | |
| Reversal | Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score | |
| Reviewer × 4 | Completed at least 250 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type | |
| Revival × 157 | Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more | |
| Scholar × 2940 | Asked a question and accepted an answer | |
| Self-Learner × 100 | Answered your own question with score of 3 or more | |
| Sportsmanship × 3 | Up voted 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score | |
| Stellar Question × 5 | Question favorited by 100 users | |
| Steward | Completed at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type | |
| Strunk & White × 11 | Edited 80 posts | |
| Student × 4084 | Asked first question with score of 1 or more | |
| Suffrage × 93 | Used 30 votes in a day | |
| Supporter × 5834 | First up vote | |
| Synonymizer × 5 | First approved tag synonym | |
| Tag Editor × 71 | First Tag Wiki Edit | |
| Talkative × 69 | Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat | |
| Taxonomist × 78 | Created a tag used by 50 questions | |
| Teacher × 3183 | Answered first question with score of 1 or more | |
| Tenacious × 1 | Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total | |
| Tumbleweed × 203 | Asked a question with no votes, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week | |
| Unsung Hero | Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total | |
| Vox Populi × 48 | Used the maximum 40 votes in a day | |
| Yearling × 1058 | Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation |
