How To Query Effectively

Search queries on GameDev Torch are not sentences or questions. They are lists of keywords. For example procedural generation dungeon becomes

procedural generation

dungeon

.
The search engine can recognize common multiword phrases like procedural generation or version control. You can use quotes to join words into a custom keyword, e.g. "lua tutorial" becomes

lua tutorial

.
To break common phrases into separare keywords simply reorder them, e.g. generation procedural becomes

generation

procedural

You can narrow search results by specifying negative keywords. For example procgen -dungeon becomes

procgen

-dungeon

.
Negative keywords can be quoted like this: directx 11 -"directx 12" becomes

directx 11

-directx 12

). Note that searching for negative keywords only will not return any results. Use at least one positive keyword.
Some common keywords automatically search for synonyms. For example

procedural generation

also searches for procgen and

sfx

also searches for sound effects. The same stands for negative keywords.