Game Design Doc Maker

What belongs in a game design document?

A game design document records how a game is meant to play. It connects the intended player experience to mechanics, rules, content, and constraints so the team can make consistent decisions while prototyping.

Use it to align a prototype

A short design brief helps before a game jam, a first playable, or a major feature change. Expand the sections that answer real production questions instead of documenting every imagined future system.

Keep the design grounded in play

1. Start with player actions. Describe the repeated decisions that form the core loop.
2. Make rules testable. Specify triggers, outcomes, win conditions, and failure conditions.
3. Separate decisions from ideas. Mark untested concepts and open questions explicitly.
4. Constrain the first version. State the features that the prototype must demonstrate.
5. Connect systems. Explain how rewards, resources, and progression affect each other.

Draft a visual design brief

MyMap can organize your game description into canvas sections and revise them through conversation. The supplied example is an app-launch project planning board with timeline, resources, risks, and milestones; it illustrates a planning layout rather than a completed game design document.