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game-making

game-making noun: the process or activity of creating games, especially video games.

Noun

game-making (uncountable)

  1. The process or activity of creating games, especially video games.
    • In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Eastern Europe, just a few months before protesters started pecking away at the Berlin Wall, the Japanese game-making giant Nintendo reached across the world to unleash upon America its own version of freedom.2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine

Forms of game-making

alternative formgamemaking

Origin of game-making

From game + making.

Questions about game-making

What does game-making mean?
Game-making means the process or activity of creating games, especially video games.
What part of speech is game-making?
Game-making is a noun.

Words near game-making in the dictionary

  1. game-goers
  2. game-head
  3. game-heads
  4. game-keeper
  5. game-keepers
  6. game-making
  7. game-master
  8. game-masters
  9. game-mistress
  10. game-mistresses
  11. game-over

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