David Jaffe posts game design document for Calling All Cars
Ever wanted to see what a game design document looks like?
David Jaffe did us all a favor and posted his design document for his upcoming title Calling All Cars over on his blog — it was originally titled Criminal Crackdown for those of you with short memories. It was pretty interesting to see him remark that “over the years, I’ve seen my game design docs drop from 200 pages to 5-10 page pamphlets.” That’s a big difference and I’m sure is a bit easier for him to manage.
It it’s pretty cool to see this type of thing, which I’m sure rarely gets seen outside of the walls of most studios and development houses. Jaffe says the final game is only 20% - 50% original to the design document, so this could turn into a great informal case study on what had or was changed during the process by the time Calling All Cars is released on the PLAYSTATION Store in March.
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