GameDev.net

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Search and cite GameDev.net forums, tutorials, postmortems, and game-industry news.

Searches and cites GameDev.net forums, tutorials, and industry news.

Captured live from the server via tools/list.

search_site

Unified full-text search across all public GameDev.net content — forum discussions, tutorials, blogs, projects, portfolios, and game-industry news. Filter to specific kinds with content_types (e.g. ["forum_topic","forum_post"] for forums, or ["news","news_item"] for news) and order by relevance or date. Returns titles, URLs, excerpts, authors, and ids for follow-up with get_content.

Parameters (5)

querystringrequired
Search query
content_typesarray
Optional filter: forum_topic, forum_post, blog_entry, tutorial, project, portfolio, news, news_item, answer_page, thread_digest
sortstring
Order results by relevance (default) or recency
pageinteger
per_pageinteger

get_thread

Fetch one GameDev.net forum thread with its posts (plain text), including which reply is the accepted answer.

Parameters (2)

topic_idintegerrequired
Forum topic ID
max_postsinteger

get_content

Fetch the full public text of a specific item (tutorial, blog, news, project, portfolio, forum topic, canonical answer, or thread digest) using the content_type + id from a search result. Use this to ground deeply after a search. For news_item (aggregated news) this returns GameDev.net's own AI summary and enrichment with a citation link, not the source's full article text.

Parameters (2)

content_typestringrequired
content_type from a search result
idintegerrequired
id from a search result

list_recent

List the most recent GameDev.net content of a given kind. Useful for "what is new" / roundup queries. Includes the curated canonical answers and "best of" thread digests.

Parameters (2)

content_typestringrequired
Kind of content to list
limitinteger

list_trending_content

What is currently trending in game-industry news on GameDev.net. mode="stories" (default) returns deduplicated multi-source story clusters (with aggregated tags, source count, and when the story broke/last updated — use get_story for the full timeline); mode="items" returns individual trending articles. Each result carries GameDev.net's owned AI summary and a source citation. Optionally filter by tag.

Parameters (3)

modestring
Clustered stories (default) or individual articles
limitinteger
tagstring
Optional tag filter (e.g. "unreal", "funding")

get_story

Fetch one story cluster: its AI summary and key facts, plus a source-by-source timeline of every article covering the story (each with its source and a citation link). Good for "how did this story develop / who reported it".

Parameters (1)

story_idintegerrequired
Story cluster id from list_trending_content (mode='stories')

Install

Tools (6)

search_siteget_threadget_contentlist_recentlist_trending_contentget_story

Remote endpoint

Streamable HTTP

Hosted server - connect over the network, no local install.

url

https://gamedev.net/mcp/

Add to VS Code Add to Cursor

claude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://gamedev.net/mcp/"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Desktop config is stdio-only; this bridges via mcp-remote. Native remote: Settings > Connectors.