• Concept & overall design
  • Genre decided (First person, simulation, etc)
  • Target audience (Children, mature)
• Sketching
  • Elements & components designed
• Version development
  • Alpha version
  • Testing/modifying/enhancing
  • Beta versions
  • Testing/modifying/enhancing
• Final release version
• Packaging & publication
• Marketing
• Review (postmortum)
• http://www.gdcentral.com/tgdc.htm

http://www.aha.ru/~pervago/articles.html

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/postmortm.htm

http://www.dmmw.com/ultimatesoft/design(1).html

http://www.dmmw.com/ultimatesoft/design.html 

http://www.gameslice.com/vgd/design/faq_shtml 

Game development cycle. http://www.gdcentral.com/tgdc.htm