In house design documents?

Yes, those are pretty standard items done during the concept stage of the game (before production starts). The design doc is used as a road map during development and will often contain ideas that were cut later on down the road.

 

I'm probably the wrong person to ask about value as I usually throw away paperwork such as that. For mine eyes it is simply too common to bother with, but I also realize that I've probably got a skewed view of things.

I would suggest pairing it up with a copy of the game and selling it as a package if you are looking to maximize value.

 

If you decide to sale them I would be interested.

 

I would love to be able to study a released game's design documents.

 

realisticly ther really not worth that much since all it is is a pitch and out line really, if it were for a game like zelda or some other big serises the info insed could be of intrest of many since it might shed light on feature that were planed but never made it in the final design.

 

Do those contain marketing analysys. I know with my company all our specs include a marketing writeup with the design specs

 

why don't you scan them and make a watermark assault? No one will be able to print them and resell them at the price of an original, and it would be really interesting to see.

 

I disagree. I know for me when I would not pay as much for an original if there were scanned copies availible.

 

real collectors know originals are way better, and truely collectible. plus, there's watemarks.

 

Because THIS THING wasn't a joke of yours?!
wow. best. idea. ever.

now i understand why they closed better.

 

"Real Collector"..woof.. A collector is someone who will spend money on it. Value for me is knowing there are not 8 million copies whether water marked or not floating around. Since these are digital items remove the watermark and guess what can not tell which is original or not.

 

i didn't said real to insult you, don't worry. and 8 millions mathers not when you know you're one of the rare who's having the real one.

 

They are worth almost jack shit assembler. Only few design docs are made during the dev process. One goes to the publisher, the other stays with the Dev team as a guide to keep them on track during the development stage. I'd pay $5 to cover the cost of shipping. Of course this applies to most design documents. If you have one with cover/binder/sheet protector (which Nintendo is known for doing when they did Zelda 64), I'd pay a good amount of money. Other than that, what you have is from Acclaim, not from Nintendo, or Sega, or even Sony.

I used to have Design Doc for Half Life, Doom, and Baulders Gate (not the technical version, but the publisher version which was only 300pages, whereas the technical was 4 times as much), but I threw those out long ass time ago.

 

I'd sure be interested in seeing the design docs of any unreleased games. Heck, even ones for released games could be interesting.