Summer 2024 Solo Project Dev Log Week 1

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 Summer 2024 Solo Project

On Monday the 6th of May 2024, I have begun creating a solo game project during the summer of 2024. I will be documenting the development in dev logs on this blog. 

To begin this project, I created the base documents that I will use to figure out all the different aspects of my game concepts. These documents are: A game design document (GDD), a level design document (LDD), a technical design document (TDD) and a idea generation document. These documents will explain what the game is, why I am making this game and how the game will work. In standard industry practice, there would also be a Narrative design document (NDD), however, where I am working solo on this project and that this game will be a simple game fundamentally, a document about narrative is not necessary. I will document narrate in both the GDD and the LDD.

With these document templates, I create five folders with copies of each document in each folder. These folders are for a different game pitch that I will use to figure out what game I want to create.

Below are pictures of what each document template looks like:


Example 1: Idea generation document template






















Example 2: Game Design Document (GDD) template

Example 3: Level Design Document (LDD) template


Example 4: Technical Design Document (TDD) template


After creating these, the next this to do is use these templates to generate game pitches to eventually decide upon.






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