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Should there be a migration path to Software Recommendations?
Given all the "which tech to use" questions this site seems to get, Software Recomendations looks like it might be a good place to migrate the "which tech" questions to (at least the "well defined" ...
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Does this place support Blender questions
I am new to Game Development and I am studying game programming in India. I learn game designing via YouTube and other online sources. Where can I ask Blender related questions?
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Why is this question on-hold for being “opinion based?”
I would like to discuss about this question and as a result for every other similar that may be asked in this SE.
Learning Curve of GameMaker and its limits
I copy paste here my comment after Mod ...
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Game Design vs Game Development
I work as a Game Designer, where I design the game in the "paper", do all the data analytics that may need and then coordinate with the developer to create the game itself.
I came in this website for ...
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Can't I create a second bounty in the same question?
I wanted to reward a couple of answers I got, giving both of them a bounty.
After encountering a first problem, now there's a new one: the "start a new bounty" button is not there any more. Is this ...
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Chat room color theme is too bright
The current version is way too bright.
It would be superb if we had color theme we can customize for the chat room.
If such feature is too much to ask, I at least desire to tone down the color a ...
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“You may award your bounty in 23 hours”?
I wanted to reward a couple of answers I got, giving both of them a bounty.
So I "started a bounty", and picked the "reward an existing answer" option.
However, when I try to assign it, I get the ...
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“Recommend Deletion” button fails?
When I click the "Recommend Deletion" button, and only that button, in Chrome, I get the following:
and the buttons go grey
but I can still browse back to the page and the buttons re-enable:
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Why do some questions have a blue tint on the iOS app?
On some questions, there is a blue tint in the background. What does it mean?
Some reasons I've eliminated due to inconsistency:
Reputation of asker
On Hold
Unanswered
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Why is the mmorpg tag a synonym for mmo?
Just because most mmo's are rpg's it doesn't have to mean you can't have mmofps or mmorts.
When I select mmo I expect to see networking related questions and when I click on mmorpg I expect to see ...
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Site design updates are live!
A majority of the changes are not be visible; these tweaks go along with recent updates that were made to Stack Overflow:
We have updated the site's CSS to a newly refactored LESS system, so that ...
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What should be done with a closed question in which the answers have become out-of-date?
This question regarding the 'best cross-platform 2d graphics engine' (Cross Platform 2D Graphics Engines) shows up as the first Google result when one searches for 'cross-platform 2d graphics ...
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How to save this question?
The following question How to develop and optimize the illusion of meaningful character development between the player and NPCs? [on hold] will be deleted in 24 hours.
I request some ideas on how I ...
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The tag 'game' is still around
Not much of a question here. More of a pleasant reminder that tags should actually say something about the question. I saw this game on the front page today, and it has far too many instances on the ...
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Wrong tag stats?
Is this a bug?
Steps:
Go to tags
In the filter box type "business". You see two tags (business x 43), and (business-model x 7)
Click on each. The page that opens for business shows 0 questions ...
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Visual bug with chat layout
The current layout for the chat room needs some fix to avoid partially hiding the enable desktop notification link.
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Looking at some new tags
There a few tags that I find questionable:
vertices
What purpose does this tag serve? I can't think of any question that this tag could be applied to. Even the only question that uses it has nothing ...
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Is it OK to ask about map encoding on GD?
I want to ask a question that is not exactly listed in the game development topics. To be more specific, I would like to ask a question about making map editors for other games and how to understand ...
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Merge all the entity tags
The following tags: entity, entity-system, entity-component are all mostly about the Entity Component System architecture.
Although entity-system is the most popular and has the best wiki summary, I ...
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Split [2d-physics] into [2d] and [physics]
2d-physics?
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2d physics!!
Noctrine proposed this in a 2010 comment—some approval, no action.
I think the combined tag adds no extra value. Any reasons to keep it?
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Remove buffers tag?
Looking at the buffers tag from what I can see there are only 5 questions: 4 are on the subject of OpenGL while the other is DirectX.
To me buffers is ambiguous and doesn't bring anything to a ...
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I should have the “Fanatic” badge… why do I not?
Either I should definitely have this badge, or I don't understand how the process works: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/help/badges/55/fanatic
I think that possibly the online indicator doesn't ...
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Should users be able to receive reputation by having accepted edits?
Some users are putting a lot of time and effort into making edits on this site. Would it be possible to reward these people that are fixing questions by awarding them with reputation?
The could be ...
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Modding: Rediscussed
According to this accepted answer, modding is on-topic on GameDev.SE. The posts didn't explore the topic very much. Should modding be covered by GameDev.SE? Why or why not?
The possible solution is ...
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Why was my question about finding an artist removed?
i had a question on a dev site removed for looking for another dev? (wanted to hire an artist) just curious why would that be on a site for dev's to congregate? I think this is a great site, the ...
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Synonymize [xna] and [xna-4.0]
xna × 2796
xna-4.0 × 657
These tags mean the same. I think we can assume, that user is using the latest and last version of XNA (4.0). So when looking for xna tags, user expects to see 4.0 tags ...
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Allow very high-level questions about fundamental topics?
If a question is posed that essentially asks for the definition of some core piece of game development, such as this one, can we answer those with a high-level description of the topic?
In the ...
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Votes on “Hot Meta Posts” have low contrast
At the "Hot Meta Posts" area, you can see how many votes the popular question have.
Main site:
But at meta, the contrast is very low and the numbers are near invisible:
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Should we add the thing about off-site libraries to the help page?
One of the most-used close reasons here is
Questions about "how to get started," "what to learn next," or "which technology to use" are discussion-oriented
But this is not clearly stated on the ...
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Is it appropriate to Edit an answer just to improve the answer-er?
Regarding this little gem from a 19k user:
@Jon instead of improving your answer I decided to write my own. – Philipp Apr 27 at 11:43
And this question: Editing the pixels of a rendered image
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Useless Augmented Tag
Two new tags have been recently created.
augmented-realityaugmented
Should augmented be removed or made a synonym of augmented-reality?
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Purpose of 'location', 'position' and 'transform' tags?
These three tags represent a small number of questions (with position having the most at 74), and I'm not really sure what value they add.
The purpose of tags (as far as I am aware) is to organise ...
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When will we get the new user pages stackoverflow has?
A few weeks ago, stackoverflow got some nifty new user pages.
I was wondering when will we get them over here at GDSE.
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Is asking questions not directly tied to game development allowed?
A few times in the Gamedev SE, I see questions that even though they seem to be related to game development (obvious variable names, Class names, etc..), but aren't directly relevant to any issue that ...
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When is it appropriate to cross-post answers?
I reviewed the first post of a user (this answer). They asked a question on SO and posted an answer a day later (and marked it as the accepted answer).
Then today he answered a question here on GDSE ...
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Question about play-testers for prototyping off-topic?
I'm taking this game design course on edX (which, by the way, is excellent) and they emphasized the importance of prototyping, and getting new/fresh people to try your prototypes.
Is it valid to ask ...
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Synonymize [ui] with [gui]
gui has 199 questions and a little wiki info. ui has 20 questions and no tag wiki or excerpt. It appears to cover the same things. Should they be synonymized?
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Question appears in “Hot” thread but not the “Active” thread
Even after a refresh, I noted that my newest Meta question did not appear in the "Active" thread, but did appear in the "Hot" thread immediately after posting, even with only one view. Are these two ...
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Synonymize [tile] with [tiles]
tiles has 401 questions. The second tag, tile has only 12 questions and additionally has no tag wiki or excerpt. It appears to cover the same things as tiles. Should they be synonymized?
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How is my question regarding FBX off-topic?
How do people benefit from narrowing the list of acceptable topics, why are "superusers" forcing topics on hold or closing them. What is this site all about, is it information warfare, downgrading ...
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Synonymize [light] with [lighting]
lighting has 290 questions. light has 35 questions and no tag wiki or excerpt. It appears to cover the same things as lighting. Should they be synonymized?
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Suggestion: community-sponsored (commonly off-topic) questions-“best way”, “what's first”
I was in the process of answering a question and had to convert it to a clump of poorly formatted comments when it got moderated. The specific question was a relatively typical off-topic one, ...
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Downvoting a downvoted question of a 1 rep user
Is there a point to downvote a question from a user that has the minimum reputation score available and which question has already a negative score?
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“You can't” answers: better to accept or leave unaccepted?
If the answer to a question is "you (currently) can't", is it better to accept it or to leave it unaccepted?
While the "you can't" may be the correct answer now, it might easily change in future: if ...
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What should I do if I get conflicting answers?
Yesterday,I asked What is better? Lots of small TCP packets, or one long one?. At first, the answers tallied with what I thought the answer would be.
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However, as the question got more and ...
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Glow is synonymous with bloom
15 questions on glow and 12 on bloom while they describe the same effect, only bloom has a tag-wiki description.
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What makes a game development tools question acceptable?
Background: This recent question about Unity's machine identification was put on hold, while this question about installing Unreal Engine 4 survived the close-vote queue. Both have comments about ...
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Should or shouldn't we introduce a format to ask about game-engine suitability?
This question is a follow-up to the question: Would questions about game-engine recommendations be on-topic, given they have clearly stated needs?
The help-centre states:
What topics can I ask ...
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Would questions about game-engine recommendations be on-topic, given they have clearly stated needs?
Is a question asking for a recommendation of a game-engine fitting one's needs on-topic or off-topic?
There are SE formats such as rpg.stackexchange.com which allows for recommendation questions ...
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how I can add or upload picture or photo to this site (stackexchange) in a comment?
how I can add or upload picture or photo to this site (stackexchange) in a comment ??
