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Making a Game Design Document
This document provides guidance on creating a game design document. It suggests including a core statement describing the working title and genre of the game. It also recommends outlining the main features and verbs players can use. The document proposes defining the game's philosophy by describing what will be said on its tombstone. It further suggests using card sorting to identify the game's main functional areas and organizing those areas into appendices, such as for story, technical aspects, sounds, levels, and artwork. Finally, it proposes hosting the game design document on a wiki for easy editing and sharing.
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- 2. 1. The CoreStatement “Avoid missing ball for high score
- 3. Working title isa genre game about a situation where you have to do stuff to achieve victory conditions. “Avoid missing ball for high score
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- 6. jump / travel/ collect / make friends / swim / run fly / build / defend / attack / take / cast spells / eat drink / heal / look after / plan / dance / farm gamble /calculate / kill / rescue / learn / develop form alliances / jump / travel / collect / make What do friends / swim / run fly / build / defend / attack / take / cast spells / eat drink / heal / look after / players do? plan / dance / farm gamble /calculate / kill / rescue / learn / develop form alliances / jump / travel / collect / make friends / swim / run fly / build / defend / attack / take / cast spells / eat drink / heal / look after / plan / dance / farm gamble /calculate / kill / rescue / learn / develop form alliances / jump / travel / collect / make friends / swim / run fly / build / defend / attack /
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- 8. What will itsay on the game's tombstone?
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- 11. What are themain functional areas of the game?
- 12. (The functional areas are probably related to the main feature set.)
- 13. Games are organised around verbs.
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- 15. Put the side-dishesin appendices.
- 16. Story Technical Sounds Levels Misc. Artwork
- 17. 6. Put theGame Design Document . . .
- 18. 6. onto awiki.
- 19. Creating a GameDesign Document: Bunchberry & Fern Find us on the web http://gameify.org Or on Twitter: @gameify Further reading and image credits: Images - Blueprint from goatling, Too Many Hammers from Velo Steve, Cock the hammer from Kyle May, Constipated Angel from Mugley, Container ship from mikebaird, Card Sort from Sarah Kennon. Further reading – Card Sorting, Creating a Game Design Document, 20 reasons to use a wiki, The process of game creation, How to write a game design doc, A practical process for creating great game designs,
- 20. Images and Inspiration Blueprintfrom goatling on Flickr. Too Many Hammers from Velo Steve on Flickr. Cock the hammer from Kyle May on Flickr. Constipated Angel from Mugley on Flickr. Container ship from mikebaird on Flickr. Card Sort from Sarah Kennon on Flickr.