World Building Design Brief Templates

This is the first of two templates that I am putting together to help me build new games and fill them with rich worlds and characters.

Ideally, a game designer will produce these two briefs and present them to the rest of the game dev team.  Art can then work on concept art for the game environment and it's characters.

Character Design Brief - TEMPLATE

The goal of this template is to help game devs(and any other world builder, really) develop a character design brief for the characters in their game. The completed brief can then be used by game designers and artists on the team to flesh out a given character.

It is intended as a starting off point for the art, design and engineering teams to start previz, designing game mechanics and prototyping of a character in whatever game you happen to be working on.

I originally started work on this to help me with a game I am working on. I’m  hoping this is a useful resource for world builders across the globe.

World Design Brief - TEMPLATE

This will come later. This brief is designed to outline the world the game takes place in. This would dictate how characters, stories and game mechanics can focus on during production.

Feedback

Helpful feedback that I am looking for at this moment:

• Category groupings and descriptions
• Clarity of topics

License

The templates are copyrighted with CC BY 4.0

You are free to Share and adapt these templates to your projects as you wish as long as attribution is given.

Version 0.0.1 - Released 23MAY2024