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Video games: site scope
Please use this question for the discussion about site scope (on-/off-topic) for the Video Games site proposal.
Answers below should make an argument regarding whether something should be on-topic or off-topic. Please stick to one topic per answer so that we may use voting to indicate agreement/disagreement and thereby establish a community consensus. (For reference, something similar to this meta thread.)
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On-topic
- Game and mod development is on-topic given that the question is specific to video games and not about general programming.
- Questions about tools, engines and APIs used in video game or mod development are on-topic.
Off-topic
- General programming questions/debugging not unique to game/mode development are off-topic and should be asked at software.codidact.com instead.
With this proposal I wish to clear out the scope overlap with software.codidact.com, given that game development is to be on-topic. For example a question about the Unity engine/API would be on-topic on Video Games, but not questions about general graphics libraries etc.
It was not my idea to make game development on-topic despite the strange indirect quotes attributed to me here, but if someone thinks there is a potentially active user-base for such at Codidact, then by all means go ahead.
As noted in the proposal, if game/mod development is to be made on-topic, it should almost certainly be made a separate category from general gaming Q&A since there will be very different expectations of the question format depending on if the question is about gaming/games or about game development.
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