game dev

noun

A game developer.

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Meanings

noungame dev (countable and uncountable, plural game devs)

plural game devs · alternative gamedev

  1. countableinformalA game developer.

    Game devs are flocking to PC, leaving consoles behind, according to GDC survey

    2025 January 23, Skye Jacobs, Tech Spot
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    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 10, Rigney, Ryan, “Asking Game Devs Where They Found Their First 1,000 Players”, in Push to Talk
  2. informaluncountableGame development.

    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.

    2004 November 22, Jeff Houck, “Ada suitablity as a game dev language”, in comp.lang.ada (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Jan 2026
Cite this entry
APA

game dev. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/game%20dev

MLA

“game dev.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/game%20dev. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “game dev,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/game%20dev.

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