game dev

See also: gamedev

English

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

(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
(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.

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