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where do I begin?

Started by June 27, 2003 06:22 PM
0 comments, last by guy_with_a_pexel 21 years, 7 months ago
I relly want to start a team to deign some games,I have for a long time, the problem is I don''t know where to start. My mind doesn''t work for programming, and website design, so I can''t start up one of these projects myself... I have never made a game design document before either, what are they supposed to look like? How are they set up? Thanks for reading this,Ilook forward to your recponces.
Usually, if I think I have a good idea for something (be it a game, a piece of software or whatever) I get myself a large piece of paper and a pen and start scribbling. I like the mind map approach - think of a concept that is core to your idea. Write down a few words (or ideally, one) to describe it. Then see what else springs to mind that relates to it...draw a line from the first concept to the second one (you did scribble down the second one, didn''t you) and so on.

Let your mind wander. Forget about it for a few hours (days...weeks...) and come back to it. Have a few beers. Scribble out bits that don''t make sense. And when you can''t think of anything else to scribble down, search this forum for some of the design documents people have posted and try to write up your (hopefully congealed) ideas. Formalise them.

-- Mull

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