Part of my job as the Lead Programmer was to create a Technical Design Document (TDD) that fully outlines how the game is going to be implemented. The file length for a document like this can end up being quite large, our TDD ended up being over 100 pages. I've never used Microsoft Word for any document with a large page count like this, and I've got to tell you that it is not fun.
Everything just seems to go out of whack when even small changes are applied. Some issues we ran into included:
* Page formatting kept changing.
* Our contents page, which had to be updates every few modifications, ended up putting pictures as page titles.
* Images and even sections were duplicated throughout the document for some unknown reason.
... And a lot more.
My advice to anyone thinking of writing a TDD: use LaTeX
- Josh
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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