Gathering Game Requirements

Gathering the initial requirements for your game is simple. Go through your Game Design Document, drawings, sketches, pictures, notes, and any other material you have accumulated that describes your game and pick out the nouns …Read More

Writing The Game Design Document First Draft

During my research into writing a game design document(GDD), I’ve come across so many variations from so many good sources that it’s easy to understand why this topic is still debated. There are many who …Read More

Development Update #5: Designing The Characters For Pumpkin Riot

Development Update #5: Designing The Characters For Pumpkin Riot Characters Our game is going to be sprite based so we need to have representations for all the actions our characters can perform in different directions. …Read More

Designing The Characters In Your Game

Designing The Characters In Your Game In the spirit of keeping this simple, we’re going to write down the basic look and any other requirements our game characters might initially need, along with any visual …Read More

Development Update #4: Designing The Layout For Our Game

Pumpkin Riot Layout 1 small

Development Update #4: Designing The Layout For Our Game Below is a simple map I’ve drawn for the Pumpkin Riot Game. There is only one level for now. Some possibilities for more levels might be …Read More

Designing The Layout Of Your Game

Designing The Layout Of Your Game My first thought when I started writing this article was that I would talk about level design. Fortunately after doing some research I remembered what I was trying to …Read More

Development Update #3: Designing The Objects For Our Game

Development Update #3: Designing The Objects For Our Game Here are the initial objects for the game. Usable Objects or Power-Ups Pies of different kinds Roasted turkey Guns Knives Movable objects. Objects that can be …Read More

Designing The Objects In Your Game

Designing The Objects In Your Game It should be said up front that this task is really just a continuation of the visualization process. Only this time we’re going to try to list as many …Read More

Visualizing Your Game

Being able to visualize how your game will be played or how it will look will give you a better idea of what will be required for your game.Read More

Development Update #2: Visualizing Our Game

Starting with the Ideas I came up with in the previous update, this is what I envisioned the game looking like with the help of my children.Read More