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  • That looks more of like a brainstorming overview for basic mechanics than something comparable to a game design doc. The GDD gives concrete info on all aspects of the game. This also includes things like the story/backstory, the art style, helpful screenshots of other stuff to compare to and keep people on the same page, etc.

    The only thing I got from that image is that it’s a survival game where you fight monsters. How does that work though? What’s the combat like? What’s the general vibe of the game? Is it third person or first person? What’s the scope? That’s what a design doc is for.




  • You were practically unable to move/rotate/scale control nodes inside of containers, and when you tried the containers would often override it and cause weird behavior. This made animating or moving control nodes in general super finicky and messy.

    Transform offsets let you offset the control node and move it around without actually affecting the normal transform, allowing you to do cool effects and animations regardless of whether it’s a container or not. It’s also something you can easily reset or enable/disable so you can just play the animation and move the offsets back to zero, rather than having to keep track of where the node is actually supposed to be.