How to write a Game Design Document

So, how do I go around documenting what I want to do with my game?

That’s the first question I pose myself when I finally had the great game idea that would make me rich (jk, of course, I’m still poor). At this point, I didn’t even know that what I wanted to write was a Game Design, and in order to do that I needed to create a Game Design Document.

I started doing my own research and came across the topic, but nowhere could I seem to find a common answer or template that could do what I was looking for.

After going through a few Game Design books (I highly praise and recommend Jesse Schell’s Book of Lenses), and reading all I could online, it was time to create my first GDD…

Template included