Game development is inherently collaborative!

  • Communicating the overall vision of the game to all the team member is essential.
  • The most effective way is to write down the vision as well as a detailed plan for executing it.

In general, a game design document contain

  • Overview and vision statement
  • Gameplay
  • Characters (if applicable)
  • Story (if applicable)
  • World (if applicable)
  • Media list
  • Technical specification (if applicable)

By November 3, your team is required to have an initial draft (the version zero) of your game design document. The game design document must be a text in Markdown format included in the game GitHub repository.