game dev

See also: gamedev

English

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Noun

game dev (countable and uncountable, plural game devs) (informal)

  1. (countable) A game developer.
    • 2025 January 10, Rigney, Ryan, “Asking Game Devs Where They Found Their First 1,000 Players”, in Push to Talk‎[1]:
      This week I reached out to four successful indie game devs to ask where they think their first 1,000 players came from. [...] Like all of the developers interviewed in this piece, Norwegian game dev Anders Lauridsen, the creator of SKALD, says that his first 1,000 sales “came fairly quickly”...
    • 2025 January 23, Skye Jacobs, Tech Spot‎[2]:
      Game devs are flocking to PC, leaving consoles behind, according to GDC survey
  2. (uncountable) Game development.
    • 2004 November 22, Jeff Houck, “Ada suitablity as a game dev language”, in comp.lang.ada‎[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 January 2026:
      Anyway, I'm really intrigued by Ada and I'd like to "go out on a limb" and see how Ada measures up to C/C++ for game development.

Usage notes

This term is most commonly used in association with video game programming and development.

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