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Can we enable MathJax on GDSE? (revisited)
This is a community wiki post anyone can edit.
Its purpose is to compile a list of Game Dev SE posts that would significantly benefit from MathJax/LaTeX markup, as part of the use-case argument for ...
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
Poof! You have Stack Snippets. Now get out there and do some awesome stuff with them! ;)
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
Yes please
Games are interactive, so questions about them are often about interactivity. Stack Snippets allow interactive demonstrations.
Currently, when I write about something interactive (like ...
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Should or shouldn't we introduce a format to ask about game-engine suitability?
"Which engine do I use?" questions are just too broad. There are too many confounding factors in determining which to use.
Cost
Asker's skill with relevant languages
Suitability to team size
Which ...
AlmoMod
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Can we get a hyperlink style for chat that is less subtle?
I've build a simple userstyle to use cause I was annoyed by it:
div.message a {
color: #d1802a;
}
https://userstyles.org/styles/103649/make-links-identifiable
(One that also does the stars, and ...
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Should we throttle Community bot bumps on GameDev.StackExchange?
Yes, we should enable the limit on Community bumps.
We should use the same threshold that's been shown to work adequately for the Expression Engine, Hardware Recommendations, and Japanese ...
DMGregoryMod
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Accepted
"how to get started making a game" faq link
I think essentially what you're suggesting is to create an answer for "How to get started". The reason that question is off topic here is because there is no correct answer. I think attempting to ...
HouseMod
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Can we remove the "Reversal" badge?
The Reversal badge is to give someone an incentive to answer a good question that got downvoted because others misunderstood it, or disagreed with the whole premise.
Discussion on SO about this:
...
AlmoMod
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Placing on hold / closing too quickly
In an ideal SE, only those with a certain number of points in a given tag should be able to nominate questions using that tag, for closure, as it seems that some pretty good questions with pretty good ...
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Accepted
Can we enable MathJax on GDSE? (revisited)
We're going ahead and enabling this, as you've shown plenty of examples of cases where it'd be useful.
As requested, the inline delimiters will be changed to ...
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Adding a tag for CocosSharp?
Because nobody needed one.
Tags only exist when there is a question tagged with them, deleting a tag is simply untagging it from all questions.
If you have a question about cocossharp for the site ...
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Placing on hold / closing too quickly
In addition to the answer that directly addresses the question I would like to add that on Stack Exchange it is actually ideal if a question is put on hold as quickly as possible. This gives the OP ...
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Glow is synonymous with bloom
I know this is a rather old question, but nothing appears to have been done about it yet.
I would argue that they should both be synonyms of graphic-effects, glow and bloom seem a bit too 'low-level'...
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Accepted
Can we prevent the change of post order when moderators are editing meta info?
These kinds of mass editing events are rare. There isn't a way for us to edit these questions without rising to the top of the active list. If you're interested in seeing the newest questions, I ...
HouseMod
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Accepted
Let parallaxscrolling be dashy
That's because parallax-scrolling didn't exist before. It does now. And, parallaxscrolling has been merged into it, so anyone trying to use that non-dash-non-sense will be converted to the dash-tastic ...
HouseMod
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Is there a place for asking for general debugging help?
First off, this meta post discussing 'debug my code' criteria covers why these types of questions are frequently considered off-topic &/or of low value. Basically, this is the system doing what it ...
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Suggestion for New Tag: unity-2017
We currently have unity, and unity5 as tags to differentiate general unity questions from questions about specific features to that unity version.
That's not exactly the case.
Taking a look at the ...
VaillancourtMod
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Can we make a Game on this site?
Not likely.
Game Dev Stack Exchange gets operated and maintained by Stack Overflow, Inc. That's the company maintaining Stack Overflow plus a couple of hundred other sites.
GDSE's mission is as a Q&...
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Can we get a cocos2d-x tag?
Yes, we can!
This question felt lonely without an answer.
VaillancourtMod
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Accepted
Would questions about game-engine recommendations be on-topic, given they have clearly stated needs?
Looking at the help centre:
What topics can I ask about here?
...
and it is not about...
how to get started making a game
what language/engine/SDK you should learn
where free ...
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Feature request: Grant chat privilege
I like the spirit of the idea, solving the ever-present problem of new users who need chat and can't have it. Most of the rest of my post is purely devil's advocacy in the name of taking care to do ...
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Glow is synonymous with bloom
I don't think they're synonymous.
When I think of Bloom I think of Wikipedia's definition
The effect produces fringes (or feathers) of light extending from the borders of bright areas in an image, ...
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