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What do we do with gamemaker* tags?
Please note first that some things have been written and done in the past by some users that are still active today, and this post does not aim at all at pointing fingers if something went wrong ...
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Adjust GameMaker tags to be one word, reflect legacy switch
Our tags for Gamemaker are game-maker and game-maker-studio-2.
This tool hasn't been called "Game Maker" since 2012 when its name changed. (thanks @liggiorgio!)
Should we change these tags ...
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What is the correct way to request a tag be added?
I'm looking to add a tag for a new engine/game/sandbox experience called Resonite. This platform has scripting which is done in-game using a node based language, the experience revolves around ...
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Use [construct] tag instead of [construct-2]
I'm using Construct 3 a lot and I noticed that there are very few questions about Construct here, under the construct-2 tag. Most of these questions, obviously, refer to Construct 2, its previous, ...
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How should we create / adjust tags to account for Godot versioning?
Godot 4.x has numerous differences from 3.x, so it seems logical that it should have its own tag. But that would leave us with Godot & ...
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Should we merge the 'import' and 'importing' tags?
We have both import and importing as separate tags (and no guidance for either).
My quick survey of them found two general use cases:
Bringing some sort of game asset from one system to another. For ...
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Should we add a loot tag (or something similar)?
It was proposed in chat that we adopt a tag for "stuff given to the player in a way that involves random numbers".
We currently have 225 posts containing "loot" and another 6 posts ...
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Can/should we rename [bsp] to [binary-space-partitioning] (with an alias)?
We currently have a mainsite tag of bsp, which until today has had a tag description of simply "Binary space partitioning".
Could we rename this to binary-space-partitioning and keep bsp as ...
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DirectX tag synonyms inconsistency
While browsing the main tag synonyms list, I bumped into something quite odd: directx, directx9, directx10, and directx11 are target tags, and tags such as direct3d10 are mapped accordingly. On the ...
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Should we create Bedrock and Java edition specific tags for Minecraft questions?
I recently began writing highly detailed Q&A for creating add-ons in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (here is the first one publicly available). With that in mind, there are a few more in the works ...
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Tag synonyms and "version specific" synonyms
Like user Polar asked 8 years ago, I too tried to propose a tag synonym for game-maker since I meet both the rep and the question score requirements. However, I get the error:
Failed to propose ...
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Should we remove the source-code tag?
There are currently 43 questions tagged source-code, which to me seems like a totally useless overly generic tag. Should we remove it?
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Changing [xenko] tag to [stride]
The Xenko game engine has been renamed to Stride, and I just asked a question about it, implicitly adding the new stride tag without checking for [xenko] first. Oops!
Since there is only 1 question ...
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Do we need two tags for Skyrim related questions?
We have two tags for Skyrim:
19 questions with skyrim-creation-kit
24 questions with skyrim-modding
15 questions with both
According to the Creation Kit Wiki,
[...] everything you need to use ...
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Is it a [bug], is it a feature? Do we really need a [bug] tag?
Looking at the main site, we currently have bug tag. (53 questions are tagged with it.)
It has no usage guidelines.
Is it noise? Do we need to keep it, if so, what should be its usage guideline/how ...
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Entity/Component/System Tag Cleanup
Alexandre Vaillancourt's answer to this recent meta question made me realize we have a bit of a mess of tags in the neighbourhood of entity component systems:
entity-component-system - 11 questions (...
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Now that c# is the only language supported by Unity, do we need to tag Unity questions with c#?
It's been around for a while: Boo and UnityScript have been removed from Unity.
Now, the obvious is that issues with Unity will be tackled in c#. Also, the new ...
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Should we have separate game-maker and game-maker-studio tags for legacy users?
I’ve used both Game Maker and briefly Game Maker: Studio. Studio was a complete rewrite of the engine. It has different features, different language standards and syntax, and is considered a separate ...
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Should we clarify that game-specific tags are for mods?
We have several game-specific tags on the site, such as skyrim, world-of-warcraft and minecraft because modding questions for games are considered on-topic here.
We also have mods, which serves as ...
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"Modifier" tag?
I noticed we have quite a few questions about architecting systems that can add/remove temporary buffs/debuffs/localized exceptions to rules layered on top of the normal behaviour of a game actor.
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How should we handle tags appearing in one question only?
The "New" tab in the Tags section contains tags so specific each one of them appear in one question only since their creation. This looks like a sign they aren't significant - or even pointless - and ...
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List of hex grid questions missing the 'hexagon' tag
I'm aware of this question in Meta: Do we need tags for 'rectangle', 'circle', 'triangle', 'hexagon' and 'shape'?, and as a hex grid nut I think the 'hexagon' tag is a special case.
Having said that, ...
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Are the tags "concept" and "conceptual" useful here?
Recently, I noticed the tag conceptual applied to a question. I was surprised to discover that other questions have this tag applied, because it seems like a meta-tag.
The handful of questions in the ...
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Should we have a [warcraft3] tag for modding and the like?
It took me some time to gather the information I needed for a certain problem, and so I thought that I would post that here.
To be more specific: the information pertains to editing Warcraft 3 maps.
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Should we remap the "legal" tag?
Continuing the trend of law-related meta questions... is there anything we can do to the legal tag to provide better guidance as to its use and the kinds of law-related questions that are acceptable ...
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Do we need a fullscreen tag?
I just noticed that fullscreen exists.
I don't think it's a harmful tag, but not a very useful (not too used either, 10 questions as of writing) one either.
Should we keep it around?
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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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Reflecting on the Reflection Tag
I was answering & editing a question involving (one kind of) reflection recently and noticed our reflection tag currently has no tag guidance and a mix of three very different meanings:
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Is Unity's scene manager such a thing that it deserve its own tag?
I see we have the tag scenemanager.
100% of the occurrences are used with unity.
Is it so special that it should have a tag of its own, or is it considered meta and should be made a synonym of Unity ...
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Should we remove the 'inventory' tag?
Should the inventory tag be removed? Are there people who are experts at inventories?
As of writing this, there are 29 questions that use the tag, with only two of them closed, so there doesn't seem ...
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Made a mistake with the replication tag
I was following up on an earlier thread, removing & replacing the update tag on questions, when I came across a question about "updating" positions of players to one another in an MMO.
"That's ...
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Is [mathematics] a meta tag?
This is possibly in direct conflict of a previous question of mine: Should [formula] be a synonym of [mathematics]?
After looking around I found several tags that could be synonyms for mathematics.
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Whither the Update tag?
I noticed today we have a tag for update with no usage guidance yet.
It's not very popular (only 64 questions), and seems to be used for a mix of topics:
How to use the game update loop pattern
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Is it a good idea to add tags for engines with low popularity?
Whilst it would make people more aware of the game engine, would it really be of much use to do this? It could be considered as extra clutter, for example, if I added a tag referring to an engine that ...
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Should we blacklist [experience]?
I'm guessing the experience tag was once meant for what is now user-experience, based on this question User-Experience tag.
Now the few questions that use it, are using it as meta. Typically, ...
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Should [formula] be a synonym of [mathematics]?
Bringing this here, since I don't have permissions to suggest synonyms.
The formula tag currently has only 34 questions, and no tag info. The current explanation for mathematics includes "formulae."
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What is so special about unity-networking that it deserves its own tag?
There is the unity-networking tag.
Is it so special that it needs its own tag?
The excerpt reads:
Unity 5.1 introduced a new framework to handle client+server networking, also known as UNet.
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Is the tag [techniques] useful?
Yes, we have a tag techniques.
It has no tag description and no tag usage and it is used on a very broad range of topics (as broad as 15 questions can be).
Is it a meta-tag that can be used for ...
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Do we need the tag [middleware]?
We've recently decided to get rid of the engine tag, along with api, framework, ...
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How can we improve the game-design tag to reduce improper use?
The game-design tag receives a lot of mis-tagged questions, and seems to have a high number of closed/on-hold questions.
While I'm of the opinion that there's a larger issue of Game Design as a ...
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Should we update the "voxels" tag information?
Currently the voxels tag's description is this:
VOlumetric piXEL (volumetric picture element). An approach to world construction that uses small, uniform volumetric elements as opposed to the ...
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Would we benefit from separate [unity-2d] and [unity-3d] tags?
As part of my editing recently, I've been removing a lot of tags from titles. One of the consistent patterns I see coming up regularly are for people to say they're using "Unity 2D" or "Unity 3D".
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Do we need a "blog" tag?
I noticed we have a blog tag. As it is, it has limited use, and no usage guideline1.
I could only see two reasons why such a tag would be used:
In regards to questions asking for help in finding or ...
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We've blacklisted [engine], should we do the same for the other similar tags?
This is a follow up of a previous question about doing something with the tags API and SDK, which made me realize they were not ...
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Should we make [unreal-editor] a synonym of [unreal] tag?
Last year, we've discussed if it would be a good idea to remove the tags unity-editor and inspector (the latter mainly referring ...
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Should we alias programming to "programming-theory" or "software-engineering?" Or...?
Per the recent discussions at What's the point of the tag [programming]? the consensus on the programming tag is that we'll keep it, but heavily re-scope it to try and focus more on theoretical ...
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Should we have an Internationalization tag?
We already have a localization tag, however Localization and Internationalization are distinctly different endeavors. I think this question about the differences sums it up well.
In short ...
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Why is there no [boo] tag?
There are a couple of questions relating to Boo, and they're tagged with scripting.
Can we re-tag them with boo, or the tag has been removed for a reason not written here and should not be re-...
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Can we merge [gles] with [opengl-es]?
The tag gles only has one question and it's actually about opengl-es can we make gles a synonym of opengl-es and merge them?
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