GameDev.net

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

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to gamedev.net. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http gamedev-net https://gamedev.net/mcp/ · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

• search_site — Unified full-text search across all public GameDev.net content — forum discussions, tutorials, blogs, projects, portfolios, and game-industr
• get_thread — Fetch one GameDev.net forum thread with its posts (plain text), including which reply is the accepted answer.
• get_content — Fetch the full public text of a specific item (tutorial, blog, news, project, portfolio, ShaderLab project, forum topic, canonical answer, o
• 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
• search_shaders — Search public, published ShaderLab projects with structured runtime, topic, difficulty, license, and explanation filters.
• get_shader_project — Fetch one public, published ShaderLab project as structured passes, channel bindings, parameters, annotations, provenance, and confirmed tec
• list_shader_topics — List the human-curated ShaderLab topic taxonomy with optional public project counts and representative examples.
• get_shader_portability_report — Run ShaderLab deterministic E1 portability analysis for a public project and optional three.js, Godot, Unity, or WebGL target.
• list_trending_content — What is currently trending in game-industry news on GameDev.net. mode="stories" (default) returns deduplicated multi-source story clusters (
• 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 s

KitScout test notes

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