Game Developer Syndrome (GDS, or game-dev syndrome) is a very common mental disability in which a game developer loses all semblance of the ability to make a balanced, enjoyable gameplay experience. This can be anything ranging from unfun and unbalanced multi-player combat to a long, drawn out, and/or grindy single-player experience. Mostly caused by developers gaining a massive ego off a random burst of sales, but also caused by being a AAA game developer.
Person 1: yo, wanna play this horror game "demonologist"?
Person 2: tf is that?
Person 1: it's a ghost hunting game where you go in and find evidence of a ghost before exorcising it
Person 2: so like phasmophobia with extra steps?
Person 1: yea, and a lack of Game Developer Syndrome
Person 2: ...what
Person 2: tf is that?
Person 1: it's a ghost hunting game where you go in and find evidence of a ghost before exorcising it
Person 2: so like phasmophobia with extra steps?
Person 1: yea, and a lack of Game Developer Syndrome
Person 2: ...what
by bigsht April 10, 2023
by TheGateKeep February 29, 2024
by IPromiseToDoWhatIPromised June 03, 2025
The act or practice of fixing existing problems in an application without
ever notifying users/testers that they were there.
ever notifying users/testers that they were there.
Junior dev: "I just found a JavaScript error in my application, and managed to fix it before the QA testers found it!"
Senior dev: "Man, that's a bad idea. Development by Secrecy will bite you in the butt eventually."
Senior dev: "Man, that's a bad idea. Development by Secrecy will bite you in the butt eventually."
by Astrapto April 28, 2016
This study was developed to analyze the educational challenges and achievements experienced by a deaf family.
This study was developed to analyze the educational challenges and achievements experienced by a deaf family.
by This study was developed October 12, 2022
A large suburban development, or sprawl, involving the decimation of natural forests for cheap tract homes, environmental scaring, & mind numbing uniformity.
100 acres were sold to a housing corporation that will jam in 475 homes starting in the low 300s!
From above, the surrounding landscape will look like it has cancer.
Cancer Development.
From above, the surrounding landscape will look like it has cancer.
Cancer Development.
by Barfield Smarkbass July 11, 2022
The archaic spelling of the word, develop. Though spelling it in this manner has fallen out of use, it technically is not incorrectly spelled. However, you are still wrong if you use it instead of the more modern spelling.
Boss's Email: Joe, did you develope those pictures I sent you?
Joe: Hey Bob, what the heck is develope?
Bob: That's the archaic spelling of develop.
Joe: Did the boss mean develop?
Bob: I'm sure he did, best get on it.
Joe: Hey Bob, what the heck is develope?
Bob: That's the archaic spelling of develop.
Joe: Did the boss mean develop?
Bob: I'm sure he did, best get on it.
by thl_sarcasm March 23, 2020