Hey everyone! We’ve given everyone the ability to tag your own posts, so here is a quick guide to our tags, and Discourse tags in general:
Tag directory
These are tags that anyone can use, along with some brief examples of content for each! You can have multiple tags on a post, so there may be some overlap between categories.
art |
Sprite art, drawings of characters from your games, sprite packs that other people can use, generative art, etc |
educator |
Content for educators who are teaching with MakeCode |
extension |
MakeCode extensions |
game |
A shared game that other users can play |
graphics-and-math |
Procedurally generated trees, fractal art, 3D renderers, etc |
make |
Cardboard Arcade cabinets, milk carton robots, all the awesome maker projects built with MakeCode |
tool |
Tools for MakeCode users. The streamer tool, or a site to convert PNGs to sprite art are both examples |
tutorial |
Tutorials for coding, or using MakeCode, or making art, or anything else you can imagine |
video |
Video posts |
Game genre tags
Things tagged with game should have a share link in the post. If you’ve added the game tag to your post, you will be able to add sub tags to define the genre:
If you haven’t added the game tag, these will not show up. The current genres are:
adventuremetroidvaniaplatformerpuzzlerhythmrpgshmupstorysurvival
Admin-only tags
These are tags that only admins can add to a post.
featured-game |
Games tagged with featured-game will be pulled onto the MakeCode homepage in the Community row |
game-jam |
Information about game jams that we are hosting |
hour-of-code |
Details and announcements about the CS Education Week Hour of Code |
makecode-helpdesk |
Announcements and recaps of MakeCode Helpdesk live streams |
Don’t see the tag you want?
Let us know in this post! We’re still playing with this system and would love to hear feedback as we adjust. 