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Generic programming questions are off-topic, period. Right?
I came upon this question, a while back. TL;DR: the user is trying to implement a custom List, and does not understand when Unity complains that it does not have ...
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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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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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Should we be more exclusive?
I mean this kind of thing is all over but here's an example from today:
I mean there can't be a more stereotypical noob entry "I just wanna make a game" type question.
It's a bad question because it'...
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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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“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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Should “Did not do the research” questions be answered or penalised?
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Questions such as this one show a gross lack of even basic research. (My answer to the question is in fact an almost straight explanation of Google's first result.)
So far, I tend to answer ...
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Are beginner “design review” questions acceptable?
This question on Stack Overflow was pointed out to me: RTS Game AI Thread
The essence of the question is, I suspect, fairly basic, and certainly touches on topics that have been covered here before......
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Canonical question for picking a random element from a set with weighted probability?
We have several questions about a very common problem in game development: How to pick a random item from a list, but with a bias so that different items have a different probability to occur? Here ...
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Are questions abut popular game mechanics and gameplay irrelevant?
How do you prevent inflation in a virtual economy?
In a casual top-down racing game, should collisions affect the car's engine?
I noticed Byte56 said these questions about gameplay mechanics are ...
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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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Accepting Answers
I'm getting the sense that we have trouble accepting answers to questions. I don't know if this is because many of the questions asked are asking for general input to a question rather than a specific ...
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All these Crossy Road questions
Ok, I gotta ask. There've been more than a few Crossy Road related questions recently (with some others I probably can't see because they'd have been deleted).
I happened to notice that that third ...
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Can certain “list-of-link generator” questions be allowed?
I recently asked, are there any premade outdoor worlds suitable for testing 3D graphics? The question was put on hold:
Questions asking for resources are considered too broad here, unfortunately (...
