🎮 Game development field 👨‍💻 A game creator

gamedev

8.5

A person who makes video games professionally or as a hobby

noun
/ˈɡeɪmˌdɛv/

Jargon

: desarrollador de videojuegos

She is a talented gamedev who creates amazing indie games.

Examples

Many indie gamedevs share their progress on social media platforms.
She dreams of becoming a gamedev and designing her own worlds.
As a junior gamedev, he spent countless nights fixing bugs before release.
Many gamedevs attended the conference in San Francisco.
As a junior gamedev, he spent countless nights fixing bugs before release.
Many indie gamedevs share their progress on social media platforms.
She dreams of becoming a gamedev and designing her own worlds.

Surface Forms

gamedev singular

gamedevs plural

Morphology

gamedev = game + dev (semi-transparent) = game + dev

Meaning is a straightforward combination of 'game' + clipped 'dev', but 'dev' is informal/jargon and may be unknown to many learners.

Etymology

Gamedev comes from joining game and dev, where dev is short for developer and the verb develop means 'to make'. So a gamedev is a person who makes video games.