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Game Design Document Template

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by HeadClot88, Apr 12, 2014.

  1. HeadClot88

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  2. goat

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    Thanks.
     
  3. HeadClot88

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    No problem goat :)
     
  4. ImpossibleRobert

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    Cool! Thats a very good idea to provide some sort of "open source GDD". Did you have a chance to read the book "Level Up" by Scott Rogers? I really like the way he approaches GDDs because they make you think of so many fundamental things. Could be very worthwhile to incorporate his ideas into this GDD as well!
     
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    I have a couple of questions, most of it is pretty self explainatory, but there are some less obvious parts, for instance, project description (both brief and descriptive), what aspect of the project is to be described?, we already have a game mechanics part above it (and below it), so I don't know about that.

    Next, what sets this game apart?, apart from what?, other games of the same/similar genre and/or mechanics?.
     
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  7. HeadClot88

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    Funny Enough - I have not read that book yet really should. Going to order it when I can. :)

    OK, let me answer your questions real quick -

    Project Description (Brief and Detailed) are for if you were going to a group of executives, A Publisher or Kickstarter. I should have put more info in there. Sorry about that. :)

    As for what set this game apart - I view it as games within that genre with similar mechanics (If any).

    I will need to check that out :)

    Thank you for the heads up.
     
  8. cynel

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    er thanks for the template.
     
  9. HeadClot88

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    So - I am going to push out another version of the document today or early tomorrow :)

    I was missing somethings in this release. Example - UI, Target Audience, Target Rating, etc.
     
  10. chansey97

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    Nice work! Very thanks!
     
  11. Captain Internet

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    Using it now, thanks for your hard work :)
     
  12. elmar1028

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    I made own GDD which is about 15 pages. Is this enough?
     
  13. RockoDyne

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    It's enough for college credit. Whether it's enough for a project is more of a matter of how important it is for the team, which for most small teams is usually not important at all.
     
  14. Kinos141

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    Thanks, this looks like a great start for game design.
     
  15. nasos_333

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    Nice, will come in handy for sure
     
  16. nicknsm69

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    I have a suggestion for the GDD - it may make more sense to use Page Breaks (Ctrl+Enter in Google Docs) to separate your sections rather than manually spacing with newlines (since you have to add and remove newlines as you edit). That said, thanks for the GDD! It'll be very helpful for me.
     
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    I reformatted it so that it's a bit easier to use. All of the content is exactly the same, it's just a bit more user-friendly.

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1axeeBWp683LPU8gCBQQqmquHMYHuG3uhNTN0LjSJBKk/edit?usp=sharing

    EDIT: While it's great that, more than two years later, people are still wanting to use this, could people please stop asking for edit access? File->Make a Copy or File->Download. If you want to make changes, do it to your own version, not the version that needs to stay generic.
     
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  18. AlexTemina

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    This is wonderful. I'll use it for an interview if you don't mind (They expect me to do a game) Thanks!
     
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    Very handy, thanks!
     
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    Thanks for saving My life
     
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    Thank you guys for providing all the examples!
     
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    Thank you so much! :)
     
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    Thanks for your effort. This is amazing. Happy making games good people :D
     
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    Thanks! :);)
     
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    Thank a lot guz......:D:D:D:D:D
     
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    Source link of different kinds of game design document templates which is good for all of them as some friend say thanks for it. Very few website have such opportunity regarding more different kinds of documents.
     
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    I have seen this post a couple of years a go. Could any Mod, please pin it so nobody can loose it?
     
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    Thank you so much! :):):):)
     
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    Thank you so much, Dear...
     
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    Thank you very much!! So kind!
     
  38. Archer-XVI

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    Thanks so much! It's very helpful!!
     
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    Thank you :D
     
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    Thanks, guys!!!
     
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    thanks!!
     
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    I think an important part of this phase of development is to also put up some boundaries, barriers, draw the line, in terms of what the game will NOT be, which aspects of Unity's `possibilities` will not be used, and put some real hard limits on it, because otherwise the sheer potential of "its possible so lets do it" starts to creep in and chew up tons of time and you lose direction and can't stay focused.
     
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  44. John_Vella

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    I have to be honest and say that I tend to just jump straight in and start developing, but having looked at your template,

    I am going to start using this. It seems, at first glance, that this could make my projects a lot more structured which I hope will stop me leading myself down so many blind alleys, and get me to the finush line, (release day) a lot faster.

    Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it. :)
     
  45. Rodolfo-Rubens

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    Guys, I highly recommend Nuclino, I'm in love with this app.

    I was searching for a long time a nice tool to make my game project's docs and I was not liking the idea of having (again) everything in text documents.

    Nuclino has amazing features like Clusters/Sub-Clusters, which serves as topics and sub-topics, but in steroids, Items, which is like items inside a topic, quoting Clusters/Items/etc - which automatic link to it and if you rename them, it will auto-rename in the other places they were quoted too, media embedding (from image to stuff like draw.io docs, lucidchart, youtube), tables editing, etc.

    It also creates these very nice charts showing every item and clusters in your document and how they relate to each other which is quite pleasing to see it "growing":
     
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    Hey thanks a lot, much appreciated!
     
  48. Manicksport

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    Thanks for Sharing Man.
     
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    Thanks!
     
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    Thank you very much