Category: Design Documents

The way I create game design documents is different from the standard method. I learned this technique from my teacher, Stone Librande, who introduced this technique in 2010. Typically no one likes to read design documents with tons of pages, and people tend to read documents individually. Rather than writing pages of game design documents, I prefer infographic design documents to represent high-level concept ideas. I usually print out a poster-size copy and tap it on the wall in the office, so everyone can see it and talk about it together. Therefore using a one-page design document can also improve team communication and brainstorming. Once the team understands the high-level concept of the game, I start to work on the detailed document to explain the detailed information of each session.

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Battle Arena Card Project

Grid Gladiator ∙ CastAR (Tilt Five)

This is a project that I worked on at CastAR back in 2016. This one-page design document tells the high-level concept of a PVP game idea that includes game mechanics, based rules, goals, and basic combat setting. When I was working on this project, I was inspired by a couple of games, such as Archon, Chess, Street Fighter, Duelyst, etc. Consequently, the concept is a design game that combines brawler and strategy elements.

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Multiplayer App (One Page)

Concept of Multiplayer ∙ CastAR (Tilt Five)

This document was created when I worked at CastAR. The purpose of creating this design document is to give the development team a rough idea of how the multiplayer App works and the game flow. Social games and multiplayer games are considered as part of key success factors for Augmented Reality or Mixed Reality. This is also the part that Virtual Reality cannot really reach.

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