Hands-on Rust

Appendix 2Short Game Design Documents

A short game design document can help you focus on your core game idea—and not spend hours on peripheral features that sound awesome but won’t work until you’ve built the game’s foundations. It will also help you overcome writer’s block, and a well-structured short design document can help you finish your game. The design document for the Dungeon Crawler example in this game is in Chapter 4, ​Design a Dungeon Crawler​.

Let’s start with something that can help defeat writer’s block: making notes.