10-19-2004, 06:44 PM
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Mighty Bear of Brawn
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Al Lowe Design Documents
This is probably old news to many of you, but I just discovered it and wanted to share. At Al Lowe's web site he has Design Documents for most of his adventure games he help create. I found them very helpful and facinating.
http://www.allowe.com/gamedesign/index.htm Atomic Bear |
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10-26-2004, 02:30 PM
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Rattenmonster
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: San Francisco
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Hi Atomic Bear! *waves frantically at fellow San Franciscan*
These design documents are great. I really enjoyed reading them. I'm going to move this thread into the Adventure forum since Al's games are all commerical ones. -emily |
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10-27-2004, 12:09 PM
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Mighty Bear of Brawn
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Since I am interested in making an adventure game at some time, I am always looking for ideas on how to design the darn thing. After all I am an artist, not a programmer. And I though that the other Armature authors would find it most of use. The document could help the person who want to make there own game and needs a bit of inspiration. But it's fine here too. I am just glad someone posted to my thread, I feel so loved. Atomic Bear |
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10-27-2004, 12:16 PM
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Rattenmonster
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Good point, I hadn't thought about it from that angle (amateur designers benefitting from reading the docs).
I wonder if today's developers create the same types of documents? (Judging by some of the messy games that are released, I'm thinking not...) I would be very interested to see how a design document from, say, The Longest Journey or Syberia is similar to / different from Al's. But I'm sure those wouldn't be released to the public because they'd reveal trade secrets or something... I remember when a discussion on design documents started over at Ken Williams' site, Ken was more or less shocked that anyone would want to read those. (That's actually how Al wound up posting his - one of the posters to Ken's board contacted Al and asked him to.) Maybe Microids or Revolution or some other company would make design documents available if we asked nicely?  -emily ps Atomic Bear, are you in SF or just in the area? |
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10-28-2004, 08:12 AM
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Mighty Bear of Brawn
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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Emily,
I am in the East Bay, but no stranger to SF either. I do lots of volunteer work at the Cartoon Art Museum, and I was just offered a seasonal job at Macy's SF (ah the life of an artist, never doing art.) So I am in the city a lot, so much more fun then suburbia. Atomic Bear |
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