{"id":813,"date":"2024-10-16T18:16:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T18:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/?p=813"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T11:22:31","slug":"initial-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/2024\/10\/16\/initial-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 &#8211; Introductions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-133a13e4180091a2443edf7f426c6db0\" style=\"background-color:#0b0021\"><strong>What is a Game Design Document? <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A centralized, coherent set of \u2018design rules\u2019 to ensure a consistency across multidisciplinary teams. A living document created in pre-production but updated throughout production.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Think of it as a dictionary\/glossary \/ set of guidelines (or some will say it\u2019s a set of design pillars) that teams can refer to when they have questions. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A living document created in pre-production but updated throughout production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Sections in a GDD : <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Overview (high concept, genre, purpose, niche, message \/ impact, vibez)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gameplay (what kind of experience are you scaffolding for players?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Story (gameworld, lore, narrative, writing samples)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Art (character, objects, environments, UI, perspective)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mechanics (verbs, rules, win and fail states, inventory \/ economic \/ combat systems, physics)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Levels (skill trees, maps, puzzle evolutions)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sound (music, extradiegetic sounds, intradiegetic sounds, voice)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Platform specification and control mapping (gamefeel, engine, player demographics)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Market (player communities, monetization strategies, marketplace positioning)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-b0d307de55dda6ca385a0fa63f437e6b\" style=\"background-color:#0b0021\"><strong>The essential experience<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t need to perfectly replicate real experiences tomake a good game. What you need to do is to capture the essenceof those experiences for your game\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What experience do I want the player to have?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is essential to that experience?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How can my game capture that essence?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-bc3fab6b218345fb30c182dd2a5e40fc\" style=\"background-color:#0b0021\">What is a major?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">An area you excel at or have a sharp<br>interest in continuing to develop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-9712c18f7b68a63ed289e9e54209e404\" style=\"background-color:#0b0021\"><strong>What is a minor?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">An area that you are less comfortable<br>with and want to start working in<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Game Design Document? Sections in a GDD : The essential experience \u201cYou don\u2019t need to perfectly replicate real experiences tomake a good game. What you need to do is to capture the essenceof those experiences for your game\u201d What is a major? An area you excel at or have a sharpinterest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-semester-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rl5g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}