Here are samples of documents that I wrote for my Orbital RTS project. I wrote the original documents in Word, but these links go to PDFs so that their formatting looks correct regardless of which version of Word you use.

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 Click on each link to read the document:

ORTS Design Document – This is the first few pages of the general design document.

ORTS Unit Design – This is a detailed document describing four key units in my gameplay prototype. It gives a description of each unit, as well as their stats.

ORTS Prysim Concordiat Primer – I originally wrote this guide to help convey my alien race idea. Along with other visual reference materials, this guide helped a concept artist to visualize the race. This version of the document also displays some of the resulting concept art, so you can see how it turned out.

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These designs were not just an academic exercise. Using Unity and C#, I created a working prototype of the game mechanics they described. I made this gameplay video as proof: