2026-09-06 19:23:02
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Reference: REF105 r2 measured three of the design documents, so update its row and mark the open request partly closed - the Diablo pitch, Doom Bible and Deus Ex design document are counted; Race'n'Chase, the Torment vision statement and the BioShock pitch remain open with nothing estimated in their place.
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| [Survivorlike Market Data](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data) | What this would ship beside, measured from Steam's own endpoints on a stated date: which tag actually carries the genre's traffic, **§2** the list prices of the eleven titles sampled, review counts, engaged-player playtime medians, and the exact refund policy. **§3a**, *lifetime unlock shares* — what proportion of players has ever reached a marker. **§3b**, *ratios between ordered markers, and what they do not mean.* **r4–r5 retract four claims** after [PMR002 §4](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr002); the measured tables and every query are preserved unchanged, the conclusions around them are corrected, and the audit is at [REF103](/Reference/Length%20And%20Price%20Audit). Every query reproduced so any figure can be re-run | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — section 17's price, length and audience decisions on the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) |
| [Length and Price: an audit of REF102](/Reference/Length%20And%20Price%20Audit) | **REF103, assigned by PM.** Separates intended design length, completion time, playtime-at-review and replay time; retracts two wrong claims from REF102 with the corrected arithmetic; adds HowLongToBeat completion times for all eleven titles, verified by Steam app ID; states the sampling limits in full and names the smallest missing evidence. **§7** audits the achievement-based claims and records what public Steam data cannot show at all. **r3** applies PMR003's closing qualifications to this page's own §§2, 3, 6 and 7.5 | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the length and price half of the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document)'s owner decisions |
| [Free asset licences, and what they actually permit](/Reference/Asset%20Licences) | **REF104.** What CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-ND, the NC variants, OGA-BY and GPL each permit, from the stewards' own text; why tinting and resizing a sprite is an *adaptation* and so the licence decides whether the cheapest art route is legal; why a free Unity Asset Store item is a licence to use rather than a public-domain dedication; and Steam's AI-content disclosure regime. Confirms the lead's two asset checks independently. **r2** rebuilds §4 on Valve's own Steamworks documentation — the gap r1 flagged, closed by the [External Critic](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) and re-verified here — and drops r1's project-specific disclosure conclusion per PMR003. Reference work only: not legal advice, not asset approval, not a submission decision | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) §14's asset lever and the [Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief)'s requirement to record each asset's actual terms |
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| [Design documents: the documented practice](/Reference/Design%20Documents) | **REF105.** What practitioners have written down about design-document form. Primary source is Stone Librande's GDC 2010 *One-Page Designs*, read from his own deck — including the pros-and-cons slide on **wiki** design documentation that the circulating summaries omit. Plus links to ten real published design documents and pitches. Takes no position on any document's length | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document)'s form, and this wiki's own working method |
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| [Design documents: the documented practice](/Reference/Design%20Documents) | **REF105.** What practitioners have written down about design-document form. Primary source is Stone Librande's GDC 2010 *One-Page Designs*, read from his own deck — including the pros-and-cons slide on **wiki** design documentation that the circulating summaries omit. Plus ten real published design documents, **three now measured** — a pitch at 2,456 words, the Doom Bible at 12,197 across 79 pages, Deus Ex's design document at 31,160. Takes no position on any document's length | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document)'s form, and this wiki's own working method |
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### Open requests
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- **Measured lengths of published design documents** — page counts or word counts for the artifacts
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linked in [REF105 §3](/Reference/Design%20Documents) (Doom Bible, Race'n'Chase, the Diablo pitch,
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Deus Ex, the Torment vision statement, and the rest). It is the number that would let this project
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compare its own artifact to shipped ones, and it is the one thing that page does not have: the files
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could not be reliably downloaded and counted from the reference researcher's environment, and the
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archive publishes no page-count metadata. **No length figure was estimated in its place.**
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*Raised 2026-09-06 by the reference researcher.*
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- **Measured lengths of published design documents** — **partly closed 2026-09-06.** Three of the
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artifacts linked in [REF105 §3](/Reference/Design%20Documents) are now counted from Internet Archive
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scans: the Diablo pitch (8 pages, 2,456 words), the Doom Bible (79 pages, 12,197 words) and Deus Ex's
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*Majestic Revolutions* (31,160 words). **Still open for the rest** — Race'n'Chase, the Planescape:
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Torment vision statement and the BioShock pitch are not on the Internet Archive under the searches run,
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and their hosts publish no counts. **Nothing was estimated in their place**, and three documents from
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1992–97 are a scale, not a norm.
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*Raised and partly closed 2026-09-06 by the reference researcher.*
