Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Near-field-communication [nfc] recomendation
I want to ask a question about NFC, but I don't have enough reputation to create the tag. Can someone create it, or is there a similar tag to this?
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Should we throttle Community bot bumps on GameDev.StackExchange?
StackExchange sites have a "Community" user bot that occasionally bumps questions under certain circumstances:
The question is open and not deleted
The question was not recently active
The ...
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Making sense of the “Game Development” icon
What does the 3 blocks in the "Game Development" icon represents and how is that related to "Game Development"?
Can we change it to something that is more related to "Games" or "Development"?
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Placing on hold / closing too quickly
In some cases, I think questions are too quickly placed on hold.
For each of us as an individual regardless of breadth of skills, there are instances where we would be poorly qualified to decide ...
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Can we make a Game on this site?
I've seen these 3 rgb cubes and thought of making a little game with these and I want to ask straight forward:
Can we make a little online Game as gimmick on this website
Do the operators ...
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Creating a Sandbox for questions
Due to a recent influx of low-quality questions on this site I think we should have a sandbox on this site.
Should we create a sandbox in this meta site, or is the stuff we have here enough?
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Can we have syntax highlighting on meta?
The following code example on meta renders without any syntax highlighting, despite a syntax highlighting directive:
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I thought the enter-key would make a new line while typing a comment, but instead, it submitted it b4 I was done writing. So
Meta: I thought the enter-key would make a new line while typing a comment, but instead, it submitted it before I was finished writing it. So, should this be changed?
I can see how edits-only-within-...
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Why never any notification of moderator elections?
Perhaps my absence from meta is the issue here: I very rarely spend time on meta; what time I do spend on gamedev is devoted to teaching i.e. answering questions on the regular site.
I haven't once ...
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Adding a tag for CocosSharp?
So I started to dig into game developing and I was wondering why there is no tag for CocosSharp (cocossharp) available, already?
Cocos2d has a variety of tags for ...
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Suggestion for New Tag: unity-2017
I tried to add a new tag: unity-2017.2 the other day with my question
What is the size limit to the Unity 2017.2 Tilemap?
It was later removed by a moderator, but I still think we need a new tag, ...
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Is there a place for asking for general debugging help?
I have code that I would like help with, but I don't really know what's wrong with it.
I can't post it in the regular forums for StackOverflow or Game Development because I can't ask a specific ...
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Can we enable MathJax on GDSE? (revisited)
This has been discussed before in math markdown on this site, but I'd like to have some fresh discussion of this matter. Circumstances have changed in the meantime. The discussion of 2011 seems to ...
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Is there a way to show only 'on hold' questions?
Is there a way to show only (or hide for that matter) 'on hold' questions?
Just to clarify, I don't want to filter out closed questions. Instead I'm wondering if there's a way to show only questions ...
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Can we expand our migration options?
There's an option in the flagging menu for "this question belongs to a different StackExchange site" where you can choose in which SE the question should be migrated to.
Currently you can only choose ...
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Can we get a close reason for "where can I get free resource X"?
"Where can I get free resource X?" style questions are off topic, but when flagging such questions, we don't have an indicator for that reason. Could we get one? If not, then which flag should we ...
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The HTML canvas tag
Based on the description of the canvas tag ...
A new feature of HTML5, allowing Javascript apps to have a drawing surface in the browser.
...it should be used ...
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Where can you view or query all your recent chat replies?
I don't know if this could an obvious suggestion which has already been taken into account or a totally stupid idea (or if it is already possible and I just could not find it) but several times I ...
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Could the SE system realistically help preempt bad / off-topic questions?
SE already has code somewhere that links related questions in the side bar. Is it possible to have the system tally the # of related questions that have already been closed & use that metric to ...
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Getting game questions from stack overflow over here? (not merging but recommending them to post here)
I was looking over in the stack overflow questions and every now and then there are some questions relating to Unity development or strange things that are happening in someones game.
Why can't ...
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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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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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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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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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The reopen vote interface kind of sucks (so what could be done to improve that?)
I gauged whether to vote to reopen for this question, https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/posts/93321/revisions, but I realized I couldn't accurately determine if the OP had improved it or not.
I had ...
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Feature request: Grant chat privilege
It's been an issue for a while, brand new users who need help can't get it because their questions are off topic for the site, and they can't gain reputation because they're new to game dev (so find ...
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Why don't we have LaTeX? [duplicate]
It is crucial to have LaTeX on this board, because we often need to talk about matrices and vectors e.g. while physics simulation. I think there are many themes like AI and other which require ...
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Can we remove the "Reversal" badge?
The usual purpose of the badge system is to guide users to more constructive participation. However, the gold-level Reversal badge seems to serve the opposite goal:
[Gold] Reversal
Provided ...
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
Stack Snippets are runnable JS/CSS/HTML codeblocks within the questions/answers that have recently been implemented on StackOverflow.
I don't know as there are enough HTML5 game development questions ...
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Can we prevent the change of post order when moderators are editing meta info?
I have noticed a great wave of editings by Admins recently. Some are from realy old posts and just few things like remove/add of tags.
This is a little unfair with new posts, because that changes are ...
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"how to get started making a game" faq link
While offtopic, people keep asking questions in subject. I think that Help Center > Asking page can be improved a bit, by linking how to get started making a game ...
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Let parallaxscrolling be dashy
Oh yes, I am going to meta-post about a one-punctuation-character-difference, because this is about dashes and I love dashes.
parallaxscrolling has 34 questions — parallax-scrolling none. All ...
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Can we get a hyperlink style for chat that is less subtle?
I'm open to suggestions as far as whether we should change the color, underline links, or both, but as it is it's a little too subtle for less than perfect monitors and viewing angles.
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Too many how to start questions?
Well, lately I have been active on gamedev stackexchange one thing I noticed is that I come by a lot of how to start questions (almost daily). Unfortunately almost all of them are closed being off-...
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Proposal to remove the reputation barrier on chatting in user created chat rooms
As per usual, a few of us were in the chatroom talking about code dump questions, subjective questions, localized questions, and other general off topic questions trying to figure out what to do with ...
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Can we have MathJax on gamedev.SE? [duplicate]
Other sites like math.SE, physics.SE and chemistry.SE already have it. We get enough questions about math that it would come in handy here as well, though probably not as often as on those sites.
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Migration path to Blender.SE
What needs to be done to set up a migration path to the Blender Stack Exchange?
The site is still in public beta, but seems to be growing quite well day by day. Does the site need to be out of beta ...
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Why can't we embed a video in a question or answer?
Or maybe we can and I just don't know how to do it? Sometimes it's easier to display a video of gameplay and since I understand you don't want code, why not just remove the possibility of putting code ...
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Request for new shortcuts to the new help pages
So, we now have help instead of the FAQ. Not really a fan of the new layout, in my opinion it's harder to find info. Regardless, it would be nice to have some proper shortcuts to the specific pages of ...
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Could we embed small games in the site theme?
Assuming we had the means and permission to go way beyond the SE norms, could we insert a functional 256x256 square, like so?
I'm not married to Tetris. But surely we could insert some google-...
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Downvoting shouldn't be so easy
This is something I (luckily) rarely have to deal with, but a lot of times I stumble upon very interesting question here, which get good or not so super-precise or explicitly detailed answers.
Often ...
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Why doesn't "trusted user" apply to tag synonyms? Is this a bug?
I'm curious of anybody knows the rationale for excluding the tag synonym suggestion feature from the set of features trusted users are allowed to perform?
It seems particularly odd to me that, as a ...
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Shouldn't [audio] and [sound] be merged together?
I'm talking about sound and audio here.
sound has the following description:
Audio (heard) output of a game.
audio has this:
The audio component of a game, representing what the player will ...
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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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Gift reputation to users that need it to join chat
While I realize that for many users the chat is not a big part of the community but its really what keeps me engaged with the site and I think it would help keep other people (as in new users) here as ...
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Preventing "Oh, I had flagged that already."
I flag lots, but forget what I've flagged. When I reflag a post I had already flagged, I get told so by a helpful yellow box.
Surely it's bad usability to only say so afterward! It would really save ...
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New Edit Approval process should not lock me out of editing (it does)
Recently, the way suggested edits were handled changed. No longer do I just happen upon that edit (1) link, click it, and hit approve or deny - there now needs to ...
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Link Colors for Visited and Non-Visited Links too Similar
I have been browsing gamedev for a while and at first noticed that the color differences between a clicked link and a non-clicked link were rather similar. I attributed this to my poor eyesight (...
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Why can't we see who favored a question?
I would like to know why we can't see who favored a question? If the question is interesting, it would be great to see who favored this question to start some discussions.
Some question are really ...
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