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Bozzy
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 02:22
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Hi,

I'm not entirely sure that this is the right place to put this, but anyway... I, along with a friend of mine, are creating a suite of development aid tools, and are currently working on the "Design" part of it.

We would like your opinion on how you, as a developer, would want to have such a tool and what you would want to be included in it.


Thanks,
Bozzy

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Xenocythe
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 02:24
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Don't people like, use Microsoft Word or something? PDF's? How the heck could you make a tool for this?


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Agent Dink
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Yeah, not to be rude, but I'm with Xeno on this one... things like microsoft word, open office, adobe PDFs... they already take care of just about anything you need to make a DD.

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Keo C
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 03:24 Edited at: 22nd Mar 2008 03:25
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I'm with the others. Lightning Notes and OpenOffice is all I need.


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puppyofkosh
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 03:52
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I use good old notepad

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 03:53
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I wish someone would create an editor where I could....type in test...kinda like in a forum post...and then somehow save it so I could continue typing in text later on.

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aluseus GOD
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 06:30 Edited at: 22nd Mar 2008 06:30
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I think you guys misinterpreted what he said. I think hes trying to ask us what we would want in a development aid tool. Of course I probably did something wrong in my logic

EDIT: Yup, i misinterpreted it.

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tha_rami
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 11:08
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Well, if you could create a program that pretty much follows that GDD template that's been floating around I'd be interested.


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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 15:37
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If you want to do anything better then Word (or any existing software, yes they already exist) then you shouldn't be asking us. If you don't have a bag of great ideas already you are just like those who want to create a new forum.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 19:32
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I'm assuming he means a creator that will be a template aid to writing one, with prompts etc. You know for lazy people. MS Word does the job for me and most people find the same, but I remember seeing a 'game design document' template a while a go, which had a professional layout of what a game design document should look like - I was going to use it, but it sat on my hard drive for a while until I lost it and forgot where I got it from - plus MSWord gives me the flexibility of thought and the ability to format what I've written and rearrange things and change things later...basically does what a word processor does and is the only thing I need.

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Roxas
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 19:46
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Notepad FTW!

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Bozzy
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 20:14
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Well, I have just had a massive brain surge... I have come up with some good ideas for it now (including exporting to a whole website when the game is deployed etc)

Cheers,
Bozzy

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BatVink
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 22:47
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I once wrote a Word macro that went through my code and made a HTML doc from it, a bit like JavaDoc but simpler. It listed all globals, arrays, constants, and had a section for each function including input parameters and return values. By preceding comments with a special code, it would include those in the output. For example, @C was a comment on the purpose of a function, @P described the purpose of a parameter.

If you could do a code documentor that can be run at any stage to give you up to date reference docs, that would be good.
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