Games GDD

From reading the article 'Design Considerations' by Greg Aleknevicus I have found it very helpful in relation to understanding games and what necessities you should always have in them.

As he said the article is not 'rules' for people who are seeking help, just suggestions. So I am going to narrow down a few suggestions that I found helpful and I will apply to my game:

• use highly distinguishable colours in your game as many people suffer from colour blindness. With this in mind, he said to never have orange and red as player colours.
• use shape as well as colours to distinguish pieces as a fair percentage of the population have trouble distinguishing colours and by adding shapes or graphics can help this tremendously.
• make sure icons are distinct from each other as if you have a lot of icons and they are not that distinguishable it can cause confusion. 
• use a legible font because you don't want it to be hard to read and cause confusion. It is important to choose a easy and clear font in a game.

This is some of the most basic and important rules that can be applied and taking into consideration with your game to improve it and avoid problems.

I read the additional readings and found the follow pages helpful:

• http://www.jesperjuul.net/text/gameplayerworld/ (Links to an external site.)
• http://pulsiphergamedesign.blogspot.com/2009/07/ways-to-reflect-fog-of-war.html 
• https://gamedesignconcepts.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/level-1-overview-what-is-a-game/