Chapter 7. Game Design Documentation
To keep the iterative design process from feeling like an ever-shifting state of chaos, we use three kinds of documentation: design documents, schematics, and tracking spreadsheets. Design documents record the specific design decisions made about the game, including a game’s design values. Schematics illustrate how the design is manifest onscreen to make the abstract ideas of a game partially tangible before being implemented in a prototype. And the tracking spreadsheet captures big-picture and moment-to-moment tasks necessary to design, prototype, and playtest a game.
If all that happened during the iterative game design process was literally conceptualizing, prototyping, playtesting, and evaluating, the ...
Get Games, Design and Play: A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
