gamedevとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

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:

     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:

     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 (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.

使用する際の注意点

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

Further reading

• Video game developer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia