Development Walk Through 2

For this walk through, I will talk about how I work through a game design document. The game design document is an important piece that goes into a game. It lays a foundation for what you game is going to be. For me I start with a template for a game design document. The template includes things like a title for your game, overview, setting/game world, characters, controls and menus, and many more. As I mentioned before, the project I am working on is called unlocked. Now for this game the template I usually use had to be changed as some of the things would be not be needed for the project. Characters and a story in unlocked would not be needed. First I started with the game overview. I did not need to do much here because I had already finished working on the high concept document, another important piece to a game. The high concept goes over things like what the basic premise is for your game, what type of people will play your game, what platform your game will be on, and many other brief information about your game. For the project, many of these categories didn't require much thinking. Unlocked is about unlocking doors so it for a wide range of people young and old. I had to think what makes unlocked interesting, really when you think about it unlocking doors sounds simple. For unlocked though it's more than that. Unlocked is meant to get challenging and many people love a challenge. So back to the GDD, the next section I worked through was setting. For unlocked setting was an important part because the game has no story or characters so our environments have to stand out. My other group member has been working on the programming side of the game and working inside of unreal engine 4. He was able to make some very cool looking rooms. I took what he made and in writing tried to paint a picture of what the rooms looked like. I like taking something you see and writing about it, and sometimes you feel like you actually in the place you are writing about. There are many other things that go into a GDD that I will talk about In my other walk through blogs.