GameDev.net

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GameDev.net is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 1569 ms and exposes 10 tools.

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

Endpoint: https://gamedev.net/mcp/ (streamable-http)

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HandshakeHealthy
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Tool count10
Latency1569 ms
Last checked (UTC)2026-10-15T12:45:08.084Z

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2026-10-15T12:45:08.084ZHealthy1569

Tools (10)

search_siteUnified 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 d
get_threadFetch one GameDev.net forum thread with its posts (plain text), including which reply is the accepted answer.
get_contentFetch the full public text of a specific item (tutorial, blog, news, project, portfolio, ShaderLab project, 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 GameDe
list_recentList 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.
search_shadersSearch public, published ShaderLab projects with structured runtime, topic, difficulty, license, and explanation filters.
get_shader_projectFetch one public, published ShaderLab project as structured passes, channel bindings, parameters, annotations, provenance, and confirmed techniques. Source defaults to 20,000 characters and can be bounded up to 100,000.
list_shader_topicsList the human-curated ShaderLab topic taxonomy with optional public project counts and representative examples.
get_shader_portability_reportRun ShaderLab deterministic E1 portability analysis for a public project and optional three.js, Godot, Unity, or WebGL target.
list_trending_contentWhat 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 artic
get_storyFetch 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".