TFD Templates

Appendix D provides eight TFD templates you can apply to various situations for a wide variety of games . You can re-create the diagrams in your own favorite drawing tool or use the files provided on the book's CD-ROM in SmartDraw (.sdf) format. In the drawing files, suggested baseline paths are indicated by blue flows.

Flows in the template files are not numbered. There will be times when you will need to edit or otherwise customize the TFD to match the specific behaviors for your game. If you need an action and none is there, put in what you need. If there's an action on the TFD but you don't have one in your game, take the action out. Change the names of events, actions, or states to suit your game. Also feel free to add any states you want to test that aren't already provided. Once you've done all that, then add the flow numbers and define your paths.