Flash game analyzing

Posted by: Yogesh Puri on: August 4, 2008

• In: Actionscript 3.0 | Flash CS3 | Flash Player | Games
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I am posting here a list of points i usually check while analyzing a flash game. Do let me know if you think there are some another things i should be looking into while analyzing the games. I will post a detailed GDD later some day

Game Design Requirements

• Focus & Story
  • Abstract of game story
  • Inline Story telling (Inline story screens)
• Product Specifications
  • Target Audience
  • Production Tools
  • Development Environment
  • Testing Environment
• Game Play
  • Appearance of game play area
  • Appearance of game elements
  • Game Play Physics
  • Game Play Goals and Obstacles
  • Game Scoring
  • Game Progression
• Controls
  • Keyboard Control (Details of keys)
  • Mouse Control
  • Other external devices
• Levels
  • Level design
  • Uniqueness of level
  • New Obstacles
  • New Challenges
• Scoring
  • Logic of scoring
  • Regression / Progression Logics
• AI
  • Type of AI
  • Calculate number of Different behaviors of objects
  • Calculate common behaviors of objects
  • Category of object & behavior( Enemies / Friends / Hero / Neutral )
• Sounds
  • Background Music Loops
  • Event / Effects Sounds
• Artwork
  • Character Art
  • Environmental Art
  • Item Art
  • Menu Art
  • Cut Scene Art
  • Controls Art

• Hardware / Software Specs
  • Server side Hardware (if online game)
  • Client side Hardware /Software

§         Specific Graphics card

§         Specific Runtime environment (Flash, Director, DirectX, OpenGL, etc)

§         Any bandwidth requirement

§         Ports to be opened (Esp. incase of multiplayer games)

§         Processor / Memory (RAM)

• Algorithm Style
  • Asset loading
  • Game progression/regression algorithm
  • Physics calculations

§         Gravity

§         Motion

§         Velocity

§         Collision detection

§         Path finding

o        Proxy Communication

o        Multiuser synchronization

o        DSO (Dynamic Shared Object) incase of multiplayer games

o        Serialization / De-serialization

o        Game State Storing

o        Game state reloading

o        Server side logics

• Legal
  • Legal copy about copyright
  • Alert on violence in game
  • Age verification
• Credits
  • Credits for artwork
  • Credits for programmer
  • Credits for Marketing
  • Credits for financier

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