It feels odd to create a new thread to answer a question, but I agree that the original thread had derailed.

I use the word “gaming” primarily for playing board games. I belong to a group of “gamers” who has had weekly game nights for more than three decades. We coordinate attendance by email, and we often use phrases like “I will be gaming at Joe's this week".

The other way I use the word is for exploiting details of a ruleset to get away with something, as in “gaming the system”.

I have never heard this word used for game development, and I think it would be confusing if used that way.

This reminds me of the first game that I finished in OpenGL, called Blind Poker. It’s originally a game using playing cards. It’s a game, and playing it would be considered gaming (ahem… GAMBLING), right? The game was designed by two First Nations people, and I (white as a ghost) did the code and graphics! We generally play for 25 cents per hand. The goal is to get the best Poker hand.

it’s a fun little game. Revolutionary even, but anyways. The precompiled binary for Windows is at: https://github.com/sjhalayka/blind_poker​​

I’d run that in VMWare… who knows what kind of fucked up Chinese viruses have Infected it over the years LOL