GameDev.net MCP Server

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answering

GameDev.net is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 10 tools.

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

Uptime history 48 days of history · worst day 99%

48 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

322 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 7

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 31 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

31 Aug 4 tools appeared get_shader_portability_report, get_shader_project, list_shader_topics and 1 more

31 Aug 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for list_recent, search_site

31 Aug a tool description was rewritten get_content

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check GameDev.net every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://gamedev.net/mcp/

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://gamedev.net/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://gamedev.net/mcp/"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://gamedev.net/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://gamedev.net/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 10

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

shader

get_shader_portability_report

Run ShaderLab deterministic E1 portability analysis for a public project and optional three.js, Godot, Unity, or WebGL target.

get_shader_project

Fetch 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_topics

List the human-curated ShaderLab topic taxonomy with optional public project counts and representative examples.

content

get_content

Fetch 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 GameDev.net's own AI summary and enrichment with a citation link, not the source's full article text.

recent

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 and "best of" thread digests.

shaders

search_shaders

Search public, published ShaderLab projects with structured runtime, topic, difficulty, license, and explanation filters.

site

search_site

Unified 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 date. Returns titles, URLs, excerpts, authors, and ids for follow-up with get_content.

story

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 source and a citation link). Good for "how did this story develop / who reported it".

thread

get_thread

Fetch one GameDev.net forum thread with its posts (plain text), including which reply is the accepted answer.

trending

list_trending_content

What 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 articles. Each result carries GameDev.net's owned AI summary and a source citation. Optionally filter by tag.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://gamedev.net/mcp/	streamable-http	answering	294 ms	14 min ago

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GameDev.net — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can GameDev.net do?

It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_content, get_shader_portability_report, get_shader_project, get_story, get_thread, list_recent and 4 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is GameDev.net working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 322 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect GameDev.net?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does GameDev.net need an API key?

No. GameDev.net completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is GameDev.net?

It answers our handshake in 322 ms on average, which is faster than 47% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.