What is Pre-Production?
Definition: Pre-Production is the planning phase of the project, where developers focus on expanding the idea and concept for a game as well as writing a lot of design documentation.
What does this actually mean?
Before a game even gets made developers are asking a load of questions such as:
- Is there a market for our game and are there similar games to ours?
- Who's the target audience?
- What platform is the game targeting?
- What kind of art style is the game going to have?
- What kind of risks are involved in the development of this game?
After collecting all the necessary information, the developers create a GAME DESIGN DOCUMENT (GDD).
Game Design Document
A Game Design Document contains all of the information about a game’s design from the plot, genre, and gameplay to marketing strategies and monetization strategies
Examples:
