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Create Your Game Design Document

For this activity, you will begin creating your own Game Design Document for the real game prototype you will be developing during this course. There is no standard template for a GDD, but most communicate the vision and record design details. The goal of a design document is to be a useful reference tool to the development team. There are many different roles within a game design team, and they may be doing a lot of their work relatively independently; this makes the GDD highly important as a way for all team members to keep their work aligned and coordinated.


Read through all of the requirements below before jumping into writing your GDD. Make sure your game concept is feasible to complete in the time that you have during this course. You can always come back and modify your GDD, but you will save yourself some time if you give some good thought to the scope of what you can accomplish before you start.