Designing Video Games
Adapted From: Windows Game Programming For Dummies , 2nd Edition
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-1490.html

The basic sequence of game design is as follows:

• Come up with an idea for a game.

• Create storyboards and rough sketches of your game world, the main characters, and the action.

• List the details of your game and take into consideration everything about the game "universe."

• Finally, put these concepts all together into a design document, something like a movie script
  that contains everything about your game.

STORYBOARDS

There are two main approaches to storyboarding:

The Artist's Approach - If you can draw or sketch (like Ish) use this mode.)

If you are not an artist, (Like Earle) the other approach is the non-artist's approach:

Using clip art or other graphic resources in Fireworks or another graphics program