What is a scene?

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What is a new 'scene' in C++ game making terminology?

And can you give two examples of two different scenes that could possibly be in a, for example, platformer?
Can you give us more context or where you heard this (I'm guessing it's something related to C++ because you specified so). You might not have much luck with such questions over here, I think that term is a game making terminology in general.. and here you will find more programmers than game developers. But there are separate forums for game developers you might find some helpful people there ;)

From my common knowledge a scene is a fixed frame or map. Suppose you're in the first level of mario that's a scene and second level is another scene. Or it could just be one frame.

Hey that's my assumption don't take it seriously, or at least that's how it works with animation. Hmm want to be a game developer eh? ;) Good luck with that!
@Nwb, Why do you babble at people when you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about?

A "scene" is not "C++ terminology".
It is term in computer graphics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene_graph
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That's why I asked for context and "I think that term is a game making terminology in general.."

How do you know scene graph is the scene he is talking about? What is a 'scene' (not screen graph) according to your link? And can you give two examples of a 'scene'?
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In Godot Engine, a C++ based game engine, a button reads 'create new scene'
A scene graph is a data structure that defines relationships (physical or logical) between a subset of objects/entities/things in the current "area" or "world". Correspondingly, the scene is the set of objects/entities/things in the current "area" or "world", and the relationships between them.
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I see, could this also be 'Menu' and 'level 5'?
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I guess it's possible that Menu and level 5 name scenes, but I've never heard of Godot Engine until today.
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