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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 ...
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#1: Initial revision
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Lundin
·
2023-07-03T13:16:48Z (over 1 year ago)
> **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](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/288625), 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.