Game Planner

About the Game Planner 

This Game Development Planner is designed to help you plan smarter, manage scope, and complete what you start, whether you’re working on a fast-paced game jam, a university project, or your first indie game.

Built from real experience developing games, from university projects to professional industry work, this planner gives you a practical, structured way to shape your ideas into a clear, achievable plan.

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Inside, you’ll find guided prompts and structured sections to help you:

• Define your core game idea and unique hook

• Break your concept into achievable features and milestones

• Manage scope and avoid over-ambitious projects

• Build the foundations of a lightweight Game Design Document (GDD)

• Plan development tasks and timelines

• Reflect on completed projects to improve your next one​

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Designed especially for game jams and other time-constrained projects, the planner helps you move quickly from idea to playable build without getting stuck in overplanning or endless prototyping. It balances structure with creative freedom, giving you just enough guidance to stay focused without boxing you into rigid templates or over-complicated processes.​

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Stop over-scoping. Stop endless prototyping. Start finishing games.