Game Design Documents

We all know GDD's are crucial to game dev, so I've been sniffing around the net trying to find proper laid out examples and found this page that gives you downloadable documents you can learn from and even use as templates http://www.ihfsoft.com/designdocuments.htm

I found the first one quite good and very informative.

Hope this helps someone in their projects.

Cheers,

 

two excellent links from gamasutra (probably on those pages you linked to):

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991019/ryan_01.htm

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991217/ryan_01.htm

 

Thanks for the links.

 

maybe we should have a new catagory in the forums:

General Game Development

this would be useful tips, tuts info that would not neccessarily have to relate to unity. as a noob to game production no less unity i spend so much time hunting down "what's the standard way this is done" type info. it would be great to have a dedicated forum section.

maybe there should also be a sticky at the top of the list where people could just post links they found useful. for example i'm learning normal maps at the moment and these three sites were unbelievably helpful:

excellent intro tips!
http://www.bencloward.com/resources_tutorials.shtml

simple but informative
http://www.iddevnet.com/quake4/ArtReference_CreatingTextures

blender specific
http://feeblemind.tuxfamily.org/dotclear/index.php/2005/08/23/43-tutorial-blender-and-normal-maps

this also was also a good source (and this guys site is fantastic for all game info in general - ignore the silly url ; )
http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm

i have lots more i could post would love to see what others have found as well. anybody think this is a good idea?

 

It might be better to have a forum to ask the questions and give the Answers but put the information (i.e. docs and FAQ) on the unity wiki

 

yes i meant that it would be primarily for questions and answers, sorry if i didn't convey that. for example, somebody recently was asking how weapons are handled for an FPS, and many of my past posts are of this nature as well. do these type of general questions go in gossip, support or external tools? it would be easier to have a dedicated section.

regarding the liks list, i just thought it would be nice to also have a post of them at the top of the section as well. i think keeping it all together might be a better idea so then every other answer isn't a link to the wiki.