task 8-21

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Review Game Design Document 

Using the description of a premise from John Truby’s The Anatomy of Story, update your game “premise.” This should be a dense, concise single sentence that capture all the key elements of your game narrative.

Review World Building, esp the “three main rules” on p 11. Then brainstorm, take notes, draw, sketch, find related images etc to help you craft a world for your game narrative.

Then follow the Game World layout on pages 14-15 in the Game Design Document and develop the following sections

  1. Overview
  2. Key locations
  3. Travel
  4. Scale
  5. Objects
  6. Weather
  7. Day/night
  8. Game Engine & why
  9. Camera
  10. Environment–2D? 3D? etc
  11. Lighting
  12. Setting Game Summary
  13. Any other section you need

As you brainstorm world ideas, you may want to begin taking notes for player and all game main game characters at this point, as you will need to develop them soon , and they should be consistent with your game world.

If you have an Adobe license, add your changes directly to the in Game Design Document InDesign; then export your GDD as a PDF, and upload it to the media library, then add it to your post. If you do NOT have an Adobe license–save all your text on your desktop in an app, copy them into your WordPress posts for each task, then in the last week of the semester, get the 7 day free trial of InDesign, and use that to copy all your text into the document, and then export as a pdf.

To be sure it works well for you, and you know how to use it, you can also use the free trial, and pay 20.99 for only one month, then cancel your subscription. This will at least give you time to play with and learn the software in case you have any future design needs or want to learn these skills.