GDQuest Glossary

2026/02/16

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Format: Glossary Article
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GDQuest Glossary

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A
- AI (Game AI)
- Annotation
- API (Application Programming Interface)
- Arrays
- Autoload
- Animation Easing
- Await
- Animation Transition
B
- Blackboard Pattern (Game AI)
- Backend
- Basis
- Bulletin Board Code (BBCode)
- Best possible code
- Bezier Curve
- Billboard (3D)
- Bit Flags
- Boilerplate
- Boolean Expressions
- Bound Checks
- Bound Functions
C
- Class
- Closure
- Code blocks
- Collisions
- Collision layers and masks
- Command Line
- Composition
- Constant
- Constructor method
- Continuous Collision Detection (CCD)
- Copy, Customize, Create
- Coupling
- Coyote Time
- Custom Constructors
D
- Data
- Data Structure
- Delta Time
- Dependency
- Dependency injection
- Design Pattern
- Deterministic simulation
- Dialog or Dialogue
- Dictionary
- Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)
- Dot Product
- Draw Order
- DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)
- Duck Typing
- Dynamic, Static, Weak, and Strong languages
- Declarative programming
E
- Early Returns
- Editor Tooling
- Encapsulation
- Euler Angles
- Expressions
F
- Field of View
- File Format for Sounds
- Finite State Machine
- Floating Point Rounding Errors
- Fluent Interface
- Footgun
- Forward Direction
- Framerate Independence
- Frames Per Second
- Function Call vs Function Reference
- Function
- Function Signature
- Functional Programming
- Function Parameter
G
- Game States
- Game Jam
- Generics
H
- Hexadecimal
I
- Inner Classes
- Init Function
- Implementation Details
- Indentation
- Indirection
- Inheritance
- Instance
- Instructions
- Interface
- Interface Driven Design
- Interpolation
- identifier
- Imperative programming
- Implicit Type Coercion
J
- Juicing
K
- Keyframe
- Kill plane
- Kinematic Body
L
- Lambda Function
- Level Design
- Lifecycle (term)
- Logic Programming
- Low-level programming
M
- Main Loop
- Material
- Method, member function
- Modulo (%) Operator
N
- Node Lifecycle
- Naming things
- Node
- Normal Vector
O
- Overriding a function
- Object
- Object-Oriented Programming
- OpenGL
- Operator
P
- Programming Error
- Physics Process Function
- Process function
- Pure Functions
- Particle System
- Pathfinding
- PEBKAC (User error)
- Polar coordinates
- Pragmatic Programming
- Premature Optimization
- Private/Public Properties
- Property, member variable
- Pseudo Code
Q
- Quaternion
R
- Radians (angle)
- Return (Function)
- Race Condition
- Raycast
- Refactoring
- Reference counting
- Resource
- Runtime
- Rigid Body
S
- Software architecture
- State (Finite State Machine)
- SVG Format
- Software framework
- Static Function
- Scene
- Scene tree
- Scope
- Script
- Serialization
- Setters and Getters
- Shaders
- Side Effect
- Signal
- Singleton (Autoload)
- Sprite
- Sprite sheet
- State
- Statement
- Static Variable
- Steering behaviors
- String
- Stylebox
- Super keyword
T
- Token
- Type Object
- Ternary Expression
- Test Driven Design
- Theme
- Tilemap
- Tileset
- Tonemap
- Transform
- Truthy/Falsy
- Tunneling
- Tween
- Type
- Type Casting
- Type Inference
V
- Virtual Function
- Variable
- Vector
- Velocity
- Version Control System (VCS)
- Viewport
- Virtual base class
- Void (Function)
Y
- Your co-worker: Your future self
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- 9-slice scaling
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