[gameprogrammer] Re: Design Documents

[Chris Nystrom <ccn@olenska.hn.org>]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Paul Smith wrote:

> http://www.ihfsoft.com/designdocuments.htm
> 
> This is quite an interesting one, as it claims to have the design
> document that drove Doom.  However, it shows two things - one is that a
> bad design document can still turn into a good game, and the other is
> that the game might not end up anything like your initial design ideas
> ;)

Thank you. Good link!

Section 4. Play Loop was intersting. Just 3 words: New 3-D engine. Hehe.

All the references to NeXT computers were interesting, since Carmack used
one to write the game. It was cool to read this design document, since I
just got done reading _Masters of Doom_ by David Kushner.

Chris



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