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My experience developing Redd's Runaway

nestor-2099 · 2020-10-05T03:28:55Z

Hey everyone! So I'm keeping a devlog of my journey developing my first commercial game, Redd's Runaway ( https://itch.io/t/907220/redds-runaway-a-rungun-inspired-by-the-supernatural ); however, I think the General Development section may be a better place for it. Please let me know what do you think. Day 4: One-Sheet and Game Design Document Before programming or creating art for an idea, it is recommended to set the basis of our idea in such a way that it serves as a reference for development; I think this should be especially helpful when collaborating with even a small team. Creating these documents will even help you create small sketches of how you imagine your title advertisement can be. The One-Sheet, as its name indicates, is a single sheet where you will consider the platforms, target audience, game summary, scheme and USP's (Unique Selling Points, the most important characteristics of your game and that will help you guide your game’s presentations to the public). Also similar products, competitors, and the main theme. On the other hand, the Game Design Document (there is a version that also consists of 10 pages) establishes both the estimated release date, the key points of your development, and several of the previous points in greater depth (game scheme , characters, controls, gameplay, game experience, mechanics, enemies, levels and advertising strategy). I imagine that this should vary depending on the books you could read, but the main point is that this serves to direct the development with the smallest risk. Good design documentation can show you potential threats almost immediately, allowing you to start considering some solutions or even discard certain ideas to bring your game to fruition. Reviewing the document against the final project, there were certain changes, but the vast majority of it served as the foundation of Redd’s Runaway, especially the key development points: Atmosphere, Control, Replayability and Action.

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nestor-20995 years ago

Day 26: Review your game’s performance

Be sure to review your game’s performance early on and periodically through your development cycle. If you see some kind of hiccup in your performance data, you may be able to solve it very easily early on, which will give a smoother experience to your beta testing team too. Don’t take too much time to do periodical tests, as you may accumulate too much information/functions in your game, which will make it hard to track the origin of any kind of performance problems.

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nestor-20995 years ago

Day 27: Get ready for launch day

As the launch of your game gets closer and closer, take into consideration to create and update all the content needed to release your game properly, like:

Website update
Presskit
Game build
Trailer (for some digital stores)
Playlists

This will help to relieve your workload quite a bit on release day, so you can share posts about the game’s launch and answer as many questions as possible that day, as well as fix any critical issue that may appear. You are almost there, keep it up!

Redd's Runaway is now available at https://bewolf-studio.itch.io/redds-runaway

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