Sanctuary Game Studios

3 months ago, I started a company called Sanctuary Game Studios. We’ve been working on a few games up till now, at first practicing on smudging the time, as well as writing and creating the art for the GDD’s and the games. We’re going to be releasing our first game soon, as well as hopefully one of our first apps as well. It’s kind of where I disappeared to the last few months, but it is well worth it. Just a head’s up, and I’ll post our free to play game here soon enough!

P.S. For now, we are releasing an educational game. At least single player for now, but multiplayer soon enough.

A game design document template

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Here is a link to a GDD Template that I made for Sanctuary Game Studios. The purpose of this is simply that there is no standardized version of the template. Each one is tailored to your individual needs, but this one should cover most of the bases.

A game design document is basically the skeleton of your game. It is often paired off with the art bible, technical bible, and story bible, which adds the fleshy direction you want the game to go in. It is much much easier to create a game with a GDD than without one, as you would need to be as detailed as possible with this so something like the following doesn’t exist.

Without a GDD:

Note: “In the second scene there is a square that gives a power up.” (Where you mean a blue square, but everyone already knows that right?)

When the designer is creating the scene… “Oh, a square. Lets make it brown, and when it is collected gives super strength to the player.”

With a GDD:

Note: “In the second scene in the lower left corner of the map there is a blue square that when jumped on gives a power up of extra speed to the player.”

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So feel free to download and use it for your own games or designs. Enjoy!

 

Sektor 83. Jupiter Space Colony.

Some things you don’t want to forget

Mohawk

Oracle

Oracle. Mixed media on canvas and glass. 100 x 150 cm. Smoke series.

A young warrior approaching a dragon oracle for advice. Smoke on canvas, outlines of form on glass.