Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! Development

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Game Design Document


Game Transcript


Exploring Game Resources


Resources Used

  • *.V56 — View Resource; 256 color sprite graphics. Location: RESOURCE.00*, RESSCI.00*, patchDir.
  • *.P56 — Picture resources; 256 color background graphics. Location: RESOURCE.00*, RESSCI.00*, patchDir.
  • *.CSC — Script resources; static data. Location: RESOURCE.00*, RESSCI.00*, patchDir.
  • *.FON — Graphics to display text. Location: RESOURCE.00*, patchDir.
  • *.PAT — Patch resources; audio patch files. Location: RESOURCE.00*, patchDir
  • *.PAL — Palette resources; 256 color palette files. Location: RESOURCE.00*, RESSCI.00*, patchDir.
  • *.AUD — Audio resources; voice and digital sound effects. Location: RESOURCE.SFX, patchDir.
  • *.MSG — Message resources; text plus metadata. Location: RESOURCE.00*, patchDir
  • Sync36 — Sync36 resources; Audio36 synchronization. Location: RESOURCE.00*, patchDir.


External Resources

  • *.MAP — Map Resource; lookup tables for the individual resources. Location: external, RESSCI.00*, patchDir.
  • Audio36 — Audio36 resources. Location: RESOURCE.SFX, external, patchDir.
  • *.VMD — VMD videos (external). Location: external, patchDir.


Developer Notes

Al Lowe wrote:

Over the years I've had many requests from newcomers to the gamedesign field to share what I know about adventure game design. So here's a rough lesson for those who want to spend some time studying: you can see the actual game design document for some of my games. (I would share the designs for the other games, but I can't seem to find them in a format readable by today's word processors.)

At some point during the development process, I stopped updating the design document as changes were made and we just made the changes directly into the code.

You won't find any dialogue here. I always waited to create that directly in Sierra's "Message Editor," an in-house editor that allowed me to edit game text, conversations, descriptions, etc. while the game was being programmed. It was a wonderfully interactive way to create dialog.


References

  1. ↑ http://www.allowe.com/gamedesign
  2. ↑ Text Extracted by Bonny Ploeg


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