GDD Template

A professional Game Design Document template built in Notion, designed to guide you from concept to gold master without losing a single detail along the way.

This isn't a blank page with headers. Every section comes pre-structured with the right questions, prompts, and examples — so you and your team always know exactly what needs to be documented and how.

The sold file is a txt with the link to access the notion template.

What's included:

🎮 Game Overview — Capture your game summary, genre, target audience, platform(s), game loop flowchart, synopsis, high-level story, and technical requirements in a single hub page.

⚙️ Mechanics — Document health systems, lives, death conditions, scoring, checkpoints, and more. Includes dedicated sub-pages for Combat, Minigames, and Player Inventory, plus a reusable Mechanic Template for any new system you add.

🗺️ World — Outline your full game progression, level list, worldbuilding, vehicles, player metrics (movement, navigation, elevation), and a reusable Level Template.

👥 Characters & 👾 Enemies — Structured Character Sheets, NPC Sheets, Enemy Templates, and Boss Templates to keep every entity in your game fully documented.

🖥️ UI & HUD — Document menus, navigation flows, and HUD elements with space for reference images.

🎥 Cinematics & 📜 Narrative — Full story, backstory, main scene templates, and secondary scene templates — so your narrative team always has a source of truth.

🪙 Economy — Map out your reward systems, purchase interfaces, collectibles, and achievements with dedicated templates for each.

🎶 Music & SFX — Organize your audio direction and keep track of what's needed.

📃 Appendices — Ready-made lists for character animations, enemy animations, sound effects, music, scene scripts, VO scripts, and in-game text.

📜 Notes & Concerns — A dedicated space to flag open questions and design risks before they become problems.

Perfect for: Indie developers, game design students, small studios, and game jams.

Why Notion? Collaborate in real time, link between pages, embed images and references, and update your doc as your game evolves — no more stale PDFs.

Duplicate. Fill in. Ship your game.