Write a Professional Game Design Document (GDD)

Write a Professional Game Design Document (GDD), available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.25, with 74 lectures, 5 quizzes, based on 52 reviews, and has 561 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn how to write Game Design Documents (GDD) Learn how to write effective, efficient and compelling documents Create effective 1-pagers and infographics Use Notion for creating wiki-style documentation using databases Practice updating the game through several changes like in a real game dev environment Use Google Docs to create your own templates Learning different GDD tools and choose the more appropriate one for your own purposes This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner game designers who want to learn how to write a effective, efficient and compelling GDD or Game designers with industry experience who want to improve their documentation skills or Any type of developer or designer who wants to learn how to communicate effectively through documentation It is particularly useful for Beginner game designers who want to learn how to write a effective, efficient and compelling GDD or Game designers with industry experience who want to improve their documentation skills or Any type of developer or designer who wants to learn how to communicate effectively through documentation.

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Summary

Title: Write a Professional Game Design Document (GDD)

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.25

Number of Lectures: 74

Number of Quizzes: 5

Number of Published Lectures: 74

Number of Published Quizzes: 5

Number of Curriculum Items: 79

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 79

Original Price: £99.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn how to write Game Design Documents (GDD)
Learn how to write effective, efficient and compelling documents
Create effective 1-pagers and infographics
Use Notion for creating wiki-style documentation using databases
Practice updating the game through several changes like in a real game dev environment
Use Google Docs to create your own templates
Learning different GDD tools and choose the more appropriate one for your own purposes

Who Should Attend

Beginner game designers who want to learn how to write a effective, efficient and compelling GDD
Game designers with industry experience who want to improve their documentation skills
Any type of developer or designer who wants to learn how to communicate effectively through documentation

Target Audiences

Beginner game designers who want to learn how to write a effective, efficient and compelling GDD
Game designers with industry experience who want to improve their documentation skills
Any type of developer or designer who wants to learn how to communicate effectively through documentation

This course offers a comprehensive guide for creating effective, efficient and compelling GDDs.

At the end of this course, you will have the ability to use different tools and practical knowledge to create GDDs in different formats to communicate your game ideas effectively to teams of any size.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Understand different types of GDDs
Understand how the development ethos affects your GDD
Understanding the importance of creating an effective, efficient and compelling document
How to productively use GDD checklists and outlines
Using word processors to create documents and create your own templates
Creating amazing screen and player flows that will massively improve your game design craft
Using Notion for making complex GDDs look easy using the power of databases
Writing “feature specs”
How to create amazing 1-pagers that will impress your teammates

HOW WILL YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED

A concept game executable will be provided, and you will document this game using each tool taught in the course
The game will suffer changes during the course, like in a real game development environment
You will write a Google Docs GDD
You will create a Notion GDD using a wiki-style GDD with databases
You will create a 1-pager to represent one or several systems of your game
You will have the opportunity to share your documents using the companion website for getting direct feedback from the instructors.

What is NOT included in this course

Programming languages
Art asset creation
Game design theory

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Setting up for Success

Lecture 1: Welcome

Lecture 2: Companion Website

Lecture 3: What is a GDD?

Lecture 4: Why should your document be Effective, Efficient and Compelling?

Lecture 5: How to create a killer document?

Lecture 6: Different Documents for Diverse Development Styles

Lecture 7: What types of GDD do exist?

Lecture 8: 1.1. Why documentation is so critical?

Lecture 9: What content should a GDD have?

Lecture 10: GDD Content Checklist

Lecture 11: Is the GDD the final word? Development methods

Lecture 12: Vintage GDD references

Lecture 13: 1.2. Changes, changes, and more changes!

Lecture 14: Don't do this while learning how to write a GDD

Lecture 15: Taking notes for analysis (video)

Lecture 16: Taking notes for analysis (graphic)

Lecture 17: Introducing your first document: Character Creator

Lecture 18: 1.3. Document a Character Creator

Chapter 2: Word Processor GDD

Lecture 1: Welcome to Section 2

Lecture 2: 2.1. Traffic Cone Racer

Lecture 3: Basic Tools of the Trade

Lecture 4: A Brief Overview of Different Documentation Systems

Lecture 5: Graphic: Different Ways to Document a Game

Lecture 6: Creating an Outline

Lecture 7: Outline Rationale

Lecture 8: Tutor's Example GDD

Lecture 9: Concept GDD: Part 1

Lecture 10: Triple-Documentation Technique

Lecture 11: Concept GDD: Part 2

Lecture 12: 2.2. Traffic Cone Racer: Word Processor GDD

Lecture 13: Creating Your Own Templates in Google Docs

Lecture 14: 2.3. Modification #1: Your first update

Lecture 15: Congratulations on completing this section!

Lecture 16: Can you leave us a review?

Chapter 3: Game/Screen Flows

Lecture 1: Welcome to Section 3

Lecture 2: Different options for creating a screen flow

Lecture 3: Figma "Sticky Notes" Screen Flow Base Document

Lecture 4: Sticky Notes Screen Flow Method

Lecture 5: 3.1. Create a Screen Flow of your favourite game

Lecture 6: Integrate Your Screen Flow into your Document

Lecture 7: Congratulations on completing Section 3!

Chapter 4: Databases & Wikis

Lecture 1: Wikis and Databases as an evolution of the word processor

Lecture 2: Tutor's Example Notion GDD

Lecture 3: What's the right tool for you?

Lecture 4: Notion: Databases Basic Explanation

Lecture 5: Notion: Basic Blocks

Lecture 6: Collaborative Tools and Enhancing your Document

Lecture 7: Notion: Syncing blocks

Lecture 8: Writing a Feature Spec

Lecture 9: 4.1. Writing a Feature Spec

Lecture 10: The Hourglass method for writing a feature spec

Lecture 11: Dynamic Images: Figma + Notion

Lecture 12: Congratulations on completing Section 4!

Lecture 13: 4.2. Modification #2: Lights, Camera, Action!

Chapter 5: One-Page Documents

Lecture 1: The Great, Time-Consuming 1-pager method

Lecture 2: Tutor’s Example Figma One-Page GDD

Lecture 3: Figma: Basic Tools

Lecture 4: Theory of Infographics

Lecture 5: Data Visualization: materials, books, references

Lecture 6: Theory of one-pagers

Lecture 7: Sit down and organise the info you have!

Lecture 8: How to distribute the information?

Lecture 9: How and Where to find your theme, art, and icons

Lecture 10: From Macro to Micro: Systems to Mechanics

Lecture 11: Storyboarding

Lecture 12: 5.1. Create a 3-panel storyboard

Lecture 13: Creating new Pages: The Power of a File

Lecture 14: Collaborative Tools

Lecture 15: 5.2. Modification #3

Lecture 16: Congratulations on completing Section 5!

Chapter 6: Farewell

Lecture 1: Course survey

Lecture 2: Congratulations on finishing the course!

Lecture 3: References

Lecture 4: Bonus Lecture

Instructors

Gabriel Chauri
Game Designer
Game Design Thinking
Academy

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4 stars: 13 votes
5 stars: 34 votes

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