{"id":56,"date":"2024-11-05T18:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23\/?p=56"},"modified":"2025-01-12T05:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T05:08:48","slug":"week-1-what-is-a-gdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23\/2024\/11\/05\/week-1-what-is-a-gdd\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 – What is a GDD?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During our first week in Year 2, we focused on looking into GDDs (Game Design Documents) in general; this initial research would serve as a good start point for us to begin thinking of initial ideas for potential games that we could create a GDD for. A GDD essentially serves as a blueprint for a video game; personally, I understood this to a be a document that if shown to an artist, programmer, level designer, audio engineer etc. they would immediately know what their role in the development of the game is and what they would need to do in order to create the finished game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, simply knowing what a GDD is isn’t enough to begin creating my own one; analyzing previous examples from successful games would allow me to find out what makes a good GDD and what I would need to implement in my own. Using this website<\/a> I looked through and studied previous examples and what made them so useful to the developers who were able to make such a successful game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After I had analysed previous examples of GDDs, I decided to outline certain aspects of these documents that I had seen that I believed to be the most important aspects. Along with these specific aspects, I described why these points were key to creating a successful GDD and essential points of focus for each one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Task 1 – Idea Generation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We were tasked with creating a small GDD for a made-up game created through a template Vanissa gave us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n