The Illinois of Art, Chicago	Game Prototyping
	Instructor: Lindsay Grace

 

The following resources should help you create a design document. They are industry standard guides used by quality game programs to demonstrate the content of a game design document. Later you will be producing other game documentation, including the media design document, daily deltas, schedules, scripts, art pipeline, etc as needed. Please keep this in mind as you begin your journey down the game documentation path. The GDD is a living document, so what you complete will never actually be "finished". However, this document also serves as the "law" for your team. It is your agreement, and your beacon. If written well it will keep people moving in the same direction and on track.

A solid game design template is listed here:

"Ancient" Game Dev Article outlining the:

1. Game Treatment (see Calling all Cars sample design doc provided)
2. Game Design Document (GDD)
3. Media Design Document (here described as Graphic Bible)
4. The Script (here described as a screenplay)

 

You may also want to visit:

• The Tom Sloper template here
• The Anatomy of a Game Design Document (Gamasutra) Part 1
• Word 2007 Game Design Document Template (judge it before you use it)

And please, don't forget the samples provided in class and here

Provided by Lindsay Grace for students of the Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago. These documents may be used by others when properly credited. Please email lgrace at aii edu for more information.