Gameplay document

I think the intended game-play would be recorded in the design doc.

Yeah the design doc is pretty common thing. The actual format of the design doc is not really standardized, though.

For reference, the design docs at our company are roughly organized like this:


1.0 Overview
1.1 Objective
1.2 Look and feel
1.3 Game mechanics (this is where most of the interesting stuff goes)
1.4 Features
2 Menus
3 UI
3.1 Controls
3.2 Layout
3.3 Menu flow chart
4 Game flow

edit: used to say "the design doc is a pretty thing".. although I do admit that they can be attractive.

[edited by - pinacolada on January 7, 2004 10:20:53 PM]