Design:Development Ratio - What's your orientation?

Alfred Liriano · 2013-02-05T15:47:54

To continue the discussion in my first thread (hopefully more productively this time) I'd like to get your opinions/methods for starting and following through with a project seeing as they're are plenty of ways which lead to the same outcome. Some methods have advantages over others but when given the right circumstances, all realistic and proper routes lead to the same goal. Creating a game and finishing/entirely developing it. My question is: How much do YOU design/plan when you set out to develop something? There comes a point where we reach the extent of what the human mind can process accurately with only theory and design. However, not everyone has the same marker/limitation for that extent. My acute spatial and detail centered memory (I've been tested, Its borderline savantism) has allowed me to reach a level of design in my mind that not all can process or comprehend unless explained in detail through diagram/prototypes and demos. I am a one man team. Being so I don't have a deadline/time constraint. Not having a deadline nor feeling the need to rush into a pure development sense has allowed me to reach that inevitable point in almost each concept, mechanic and general design where theorizing just won't cut it. If I were to become a part of a team where I am now expecting people to put in their own time, then yes I would consider time restraints and how to most effectively manage their time. When I reach that point where theorizing just wont cut it, I consider my design 75% complete. The other 25% is only attainable through means of testing and developing. I consider my design(s) (not the entire project or mechanic/feature even) to be near its end basically when I'm prepared to test and develop. At this point, I would only consider a mechanic/feature to be 15-20% complete at MOST. The design process isn't complete in my mind until the project or mechanic/feature is itself atleast 50% complete and has a working model that proves its theory and functionality/feasibility.

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Started by SinisterPride January 28, 2013 03:52 PM

29 comments, last by SinisterPride 11 years, 11 months ago

SinisterPride

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February 05, 2013 03:29 PM

@Thade: Thats the thing though, when his words are taken into consideration the videos make sense.

serratemplar

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February 05, 2013 03:32 PM

Apologies, but they really didn't make any sense at all. They were long weird art films (best case) that didn't present any interfaces or elements of game design whatsoever. What did you see of value in those videos?

SinisterPride

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February 05, 2013 03:47 PM

Well, the video that I saw direcly correlated with his stand on design and artistic view within a project, in my opinion anyway.. I tend to be a fluid thinker and often over analyze things which leads to finding meaning in anything. Isn't always necessarily a good thing though o_O

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