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Game design documents

Game design documents

- [Instructor] In this chapter of the course, we're going to explore game design documents. And if I were to summarize what these are, if you've ever had an idea for a game, a great idea, maybe you've thought about the game quite a bit, the rules of the game, the world, the characters, and the way it works. If you had to set out all of these ideas into a single unified document that you could give to somebody else to explain what that game is, you would have provided them with a game design document. In summary, from the subheading here, as you can see, a game design document is a concise high-level description of a video game for any other game development professional. Whether they're a games designer, a games programmer, they should be able to read this document and understand what your game is about. In this video, I want to summarize some of the key pieces of information that every game design document will need to…

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