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Wow, this is super cool. I wish there were repositories of older, well known games and their design documents.

• fancy_pantser 9y ago
  There was a site, gamepitches.com, that wanted to archive these types of documents but it only existed for a few years. Here's a Wayback Machine link to the document archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20150406082704/http://www.gamepitches.com/game-designs/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150406082704/http://www.gamepi... Some classic design documentation is available for Karateka and Prince of Persia by the creator: http://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/ http://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/ Gamasutra postmortems are a good resource for modern games. They don't usually have design documents but they often talk about their plans and how they had to change during development: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/postmortem/ http://www.gamasutra.com/features/postmortem/
  • jameskegel 9y ago
    Wow that's a valuable resource; were you the author?
    • fancy_pantser 9y ago
      Sorry, no. I believe it was Gabriel Pendleton (@GabeTHEGeek).
• Impossible 9y ago
  The Infocom archive is really good for this https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet. The Deus Ex design doc was released http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/285520/Annotated_version_of_an_original_Deus_Ex_design_doc_surfaces.php http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/285520/Annotated_version_... along with some other in development Ionstorm games that never shipped. Nintendo released some early design sketches for classic games like Super Mario Bros and Zelda which are interesting to look at. https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/December/Take-a-look-behind-the-scenes-with-design-documents-from-The-Legend-of-Zelda--1169414.html https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/December/Take-a-look-be....