Game Design Theory: Planning a Game and Implementing Features

[nsgriff (griffted)]

Great post. As an addition, DieSoft recently open-sourced a Game Design Document which may be of some use to anyone following this thread.

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Open source game design document

So out of pure boredom and since I’ve found these things to be so useful when structuring and planning future projects as well as current projects to ensure that I don’t miss anything and to allow me to get a clear goal that I’m working towards, I decided that I would write and share a game design document. Now, of course, each game will have a unique game design document with its own structure and content, but I figured a template could do to help get you started as well as to give ideas on wha…