[GD-General] Architecture Design

[Parveen K. <pk...@sf...>]

Just a little bit of a survey.  After the gameplay and story of a game has 
been somewhat fleshed out, what kind of techniques do you guys use to 
design the code?  I'm assuming everyone uses diagrams such as ORDs, ERDs, 
and DFDs or some variant.  Is this true?  How detailed do you guys get?

Does anyone get hardcore and actually use UML and tools like Rational 
Rose?  Are there people out there who have worked on both game projects and 
common desktop applications?  How did the design techniques differ, if at all?

Parveen