| Design Documents |
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Description |
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A Primer for the Design Process: Part 1, The Design Document
[Added: 7/5/2000]
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Tim Huntsman
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This first article explains what you need to do to get ready to make a game. |
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Chris Taylor's Design Document Template
[Added: 6/22/2000]
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Chris Taylor
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A template from the founder of Gas Powered Games and creator of Total Annihilation. |
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Creating a Great Design Document
[Added: 9/7/1999]
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Tzvi Freeman
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A nice overview on how to create that perfect design doc. |
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Game Design DOC's (USENET Discussions)
[Added: 8/6/1999]
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Various
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Taken from a Usenet thread, this document provides several tips on creating a design document. |
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How to Write an Effective Design Document
[Added: 5/25/2007]
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Scott H, SlickEdit
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This article will discuss how to do write an effective design document concisely with no special tools, and without needing to know UML. It will also discuss why a well written design document is one of the most valuable tools a developer can have when entering a new project. |
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Monolith Productions' Claw Design Document
[Added: 10/21/1999]
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Monolith
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This is a professional design document from Monolith Productions in MS Word format (.doc) that is zipped up. |
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The Anatomy of a Design Document, Part 1: Documentation Guidelines for the Game Concept and Proposal
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Tim Ryan
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Make sure that your design document meets the needs of the project and your team by instilling procedures that will help you complete your game on time and on budget. |
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The Anatomy of a Design Document, Part 2: Documentation Guidelines for the Functional and Technical Specifications
[Added: 2/17/2002]
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Tim Ryan
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This article is part two of a series that provides guidelines that, when followed, will ensure that your design documents will be pertinent and to the point. |
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The Anatomy of a Design Document: Templates
[Added: 7/20/2003]
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Tim Ryan
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These templates are based on the documented outlines from Ryan's "The
Anatomy of a Design Document" articles (published on Gamasutra). Used with permission and compiled by Chris "coldacid" Charabaruk |
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Tom Sloper's Format for Game Design Specifications
[Added: 8/6/1999]
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Tom Sloper
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A basic template for a design document, including a description of what belongs in each section. This is more suited to presenting a game idea to a publisher than for an internal design document. |
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