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Thank you for bringing this to my attention. You've contributed to making this tool better for everyone!

for v1.10.2, ive changed the two fields you mentioned They now use bullets instead of a regular text area. I also tested it in the brave browser and it seems to be functional. 

Please let me know if you experience any other issues.

Thank you for the suggestions!
I’ve been preoccupied with some dev work, but I do plan to add more templates, and even a custom template feature.

Feel free to provide feedback! Anything you have to say could help us to improve GDD Wizard for everyone.
Would also love to hear about any projects you may be using it for.

Hey everyone,

I’m Shay from Studio Erza, and I wanted to share a free tool that could help your team during the 20 Second Game Jam

This jam is all about creating a game that lasts only 20 seconds or less, but you have around three weeks to do so. That means you’ll want a sharp idea, clear scope, and fast workflow to hook a player right away.

That’s where GDD Wizard comes in. It’s a browser-based tool built for jam teams to plan, organize, and stay focused. Your game may evolve over these coming weeks, but building it on a solid foundation will keep it from falling apart halfway through. 

Key Features

• Jam-Focused Template - Quickly outline your game concept, core loop, roles, and scope so you can get to building faster.

• Export to PDF & JSON - Share your design doc with teammates or attach it with your submission.

• Multilingual - Supported in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Czech.

• Open Source - Hosted on GitHub Pages, and the repository is linked on the project page.

• Quick Setup - No installs or sign-ups required. Just open the tool, fill the prompts, and start creating.

Try it here:
https://studio-erza.itch.io/gdd-wizard

Thank you for trying our tool and any feedback you may offer. Best of luck with your projects!

(To the jam hosts - Please let me know if this post is not appropriate for the forum and I’ll remove it right away. I want as many developers as possible to try GDD Wizard, but I don’t want to overstep any boundaries regarding advertising)

Hey everyone,

I’m Shay from Studio Erza. This is a free tool I'm actively developing that gives game jam participants a simple environment to structure and scope their project.

GDD Wizard is a browser-based tool built for jam teams to plan, organize, and finish stronger.

Key features:

• Jam-Focused Template - quickly outline your concept, core loop, roles & scope so you can spend more time building than planning.
• Export to PDF & JSON - share your design doc with your team, or attach it to your submission if you like.
• Multilingual - Translations for Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Czech.
• Open Source - Hosted on a GitHub Pages website. Repo can be found on GDD Wizard itch page.
• Quick Setup - no install required, no sign-ups. Just open, fill in the prompts, and start building.

Try it out here: https://studio-erza.itch.io/gdd-wizard

Any kindof feedback (Bug Reports, Feature Requests, Ratings & Reviews, etc) is greatly appreciated. Best of luck with your projects!

Now that the theme has dropped - if your team hasn’t filled out a quick doc yet, try GDD Wizard to lock in your scope fast. Good luck, everyone!

Hey everyone,

I’m Shay from Studio Erza, and I wanted to share a free tool that could give your team a little boost during this Gdevelop Game Jam.

GDD Wizard is a browser-based tool built for jam teams to plan, organize, and finish stronger - especially when prototyping quickly in engines like GDevelop.

Key features:

• Jam-Focused Template - quickly outline your concept, core loop, roles & scope so you can spend more time building than planning.
• Export to PDF & JSON - share your design doc with your team, or attach it to your submission if you like.
• Multilingual - Translations for Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Czech.
• Open Source - Hosted on a GitHub Pages website. Repo can be found on GDD Wizard itch page.
• Quick Setup - no install required, no sign-ups. Just open, fill in the prompts, and start building.

Grab it here: https://studio-erza.itch.io/gdd-wizard

Wishing all participants a fun and productive jam - best of luck with your projects!

(To the jam hosts - Please let me know if you’d like this post removed, and I’ll do so right away. I want as many developers as possible to try GDD Wizard, but I don’t want to step over any boundaries in regards to advertising it.)

Thank you for your understanding, and for adding an assets/tools tag. One of the reasons I moved the program over to a GitHub repo was so that the community could see the code if they want before trying it. I understand there’s been no shortage of problems with malware in the past so I want to be very transparent about my tool.

Hi everyone,

I’m Shay from Studio Erza. I’d like to share this tool I made to help game jam participants keep their projects afloat during this Shroom Jam!

GDD Wizard is a free tool that helps you quickly plan, organize, and structure your project with a clean and simple game design document. Perfect for keeping your scope under control during the jam.

It’s built specifically with game jams in mind:

• Jam-Focused Template - Quick to fill out so you can start developing fast, with structure
• Easy Save/Load - Import & Export JSON saves to pick up right where you left off
• Clean Output - Export a consistent and presentable PDF for your project
• Fast Setup - Runs right in your browser. Installation is simple, but optional
• Multilingual - Includes translations for Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Czech!

You can find GDD Wizard here! - https://studio-erza.itch.io/gdd-wizard

Any feedback and/or ratings is much appreciated. As always, thank you for your time and best of luck with your jam entries!

(Shroom jam hosts, I couldn’t find a way to contact you. Please let me know if this post is off topic and if you’d like it removed. I’ll do so right away.)

What would you guys like to see in a future update?

GDD Wizard will always be completely free, but it’s still in active development. Please let us know what would make the tool even more useful for you!

Hey everyone,

I’m Shay from Studio Erza, and I wanted to share something that might help you and your team stay on track during this game off jam.

GDD Wizard is a free tool that helps you quickly plan, organize, and structure your project with a clean and simple game design document. Perfect for keeping your ideas tidy while you create!

It’s built specifically with game jams in mind:

• Jam-Focused Template - Quick to fill out so you can get right into the fun part
• Easy Save/Load - Import & Export JSON saves to pick up right where you left off
• Clean Output - Export a consistent and presentable PDF for your project
• Fast Setup - No installation needed, it runs right in your browser
• Multilingual - Includes translations for Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German

You can find GDD Wizard here! - https://studio-erza.itch.io/gdd-wizard

Best of luck with your projects. Any feedback and/or ratings is much appreciated!

(Game jam hosts please let me know if this post is off topic and if you’d like it removed. I’ll do so right away.)

Awesome, hope it serves you and your projects well!

Hi everyone,

I’m Shay from Studio Erza, and I wanted to share something that might help you stay organized and stress-free during this Comfy Jam.

GDD Wizard is a free tool that helps you quickly plan, organize, and structure your project with a clean and simple game design document. Perfect for keeping your ideas tidy while you create!

It’s built specifically with game jams in mind:

• Jam-Focused Template - Quick to fill out so you can get right into the fun part
• Easy Save/Load - Import & Export JSON saves to pick up right where you left off
• Clean Output - Export a consistent and presentable PDF for your project
• Fast Setup - No installation needed, it runs right in your browser
• Multilingual - Includes translations for Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German

You can find GDD Wizard here! - https://studio-erza.itch.io/gdd-wizard

I hope you can use this to help bring your comfy autumn ideas to life.

Big thanks to Macrow for allowing me to share this with you guys.

Very glad to hear that, and I hope it continues to be useful for your projects as it evolves over time. Thank you for the positive feedback!

Thank you for saying so.

I do hope it helps to lower the entry barrier when it comes to game design.

Hey everyone! I'm Shay from Studio Erza, and I wanted to share something that might help you keep your scope under control for this Pizza Doggy jam.

GDD Wizard is a free tool that helps you quickly plan, scope, and structure your project with a clean and simple game design document. This can assist you and your team in staying on track with milestones and check-ins.

It's built specifically with game jam participants in mind:

• Jam Focused Template - Quick to fill out so you can spend more time on development
• Easy Save/Load - Import & Export JSON saves to keep working on your GDD
• Clean Output - Export a consistent and presentable PDF to share with your team
• Fast Setup - No installation process, just visit the GitHub server and it runs in your browser
• Multilingual - Rough translations for Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German

I hope you can use this to start a project you and your team can be proud of.
Thank you to Pizza Doggy for allowing me to share this here, and for sharing it themselves in their discord!

Hey everyone!
I'm Shay from Studio Erza, and I wanted to share something that might help you get your project across the finish line for this jam.

GDD Wizard is a free tool that helps you quickly plan, scope, and structure your project with a clean and simple game design document. This will help you and your team stay organized without wasting hours on formatting.

It's built specifically with game jam participants in mind:

• Jam Focused Template - Quick to fill out so you can spend more time on development
• Easy Save/Load - Import & Export JSON saves to keep working on your GDD
• Clean Output - Export a consistent and presentable PDF to share with your team
• Fast Setup - No installation process, just download and start filling out guided prompts
• Multilingual - Translations for Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German (Rough translations. Appreciate feedback)

I hope it helps you organize your thoughts, structure your workflow, and come out of the jam with a project you're proud of.
Best of luck to everyone participating!

Special thanks to Drop Bear Studios for letting me share this here. You guys are great!

We made a free tool called GDD Wizard that helps you plan your jam project with a healthy amount of scope and structure, making sure your great ideas reach a playable state.

Designed for game jams, it guides you through every stage of planning with clear, practical prompts.

Key Features:

• Jam-Focused Template: Designed to help you nail scope, concept, and mechanics fast.
• Collaboration-Friendly: Perfect for organizing ideas with your team before the rush starts.
• Scope Control: Keeps projects realistic and deadlines sane.
• Export & Share: Save your completed GDD and instantly share it on Discord.
• Multilingual: Currently supports rough translations of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German.

🔗 Download GDD Wizard

We want as many devs as possible to have access to this tool, but we also want to respect this jams host and community. We had some trouble reaching the host to ask permission, so please let us know if this post feels off-topic or if you'd like it removed - we'll do so right away.

Thank you.

We made a tool called GDD Wizard that helps you stay structured,  while allowing your creativity to flourish, allowing you to finish the jam with a project that you and your team can be genuinely proud of.

Designed for game jams, it guides you through every stage of planning with clear, practical prompts.

Key Features:

• Jam-Focused Template: Designed to help you nail scope, concept, and mechanics fast.
• Collaboration-Friendly: Perfect for organizing ideas with your team before the rush starts.
• Scope Control: Keeps projects realistic and deadlines sane.
• Export & Share: Save your completed GDD and instantly share it on Discord or itch.io.
• Multilingual: Currently supports English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German!

🔗 Download GDD Wizard

Big thank you to INDIE for allowing us to make this post!

I really appreciate that! I actually decided against adding a donate option for a couple reasons — first, I’m lucky enough to be in a position where I don’t urgently need any compensation for my work, and second, I didn’t want anyone to feel misled if they donated now and then saw a paid version later. I’d rather keep things clear and fair for everyone.

Thank you so much for the kind words!

I’m planning on making a cheap paid version that allows much more flexibility for more advanced users, including features like custom templates.

I’ll definitely consider adding more flexibility to the free version as well - like adding a toggle for sections, as well as expanding it for better marketing focus.

Appreciate that! Obsidian’s great but I feel it would be too much of a learning curve for anyone who isn’t prone to game design — curious to hear how GDD Wizard compares for you once you’ve tried it. Feedback helps a ton.

We made a tool called GDD Wizard that helps you stay structured and creative — all in one place.

Designed for game jams, it guides you through every stage of planning with clear, practical prompts.

Key Features:

• Jam-Focused Template: Designed to help you nail scope, concept, and mechanics fast.
• Collaboration-Friendly: Perfect for organizing ideas with your team before the rush starts.
• Scope Control: Keeps projects realistic and deadlines sane.
• Export & Share: Save your completed GDD and instantly share it on Discord or itch.io.

🔗 Download GDD Wizard

(Gamedev.tv, feel free to remove this post if you feel it goes against your guidelines, or ask us to remove it and it will be done right away.)

Very cool idea!
I like how it looks like you're shuffling around little bullets.

It could benefit from more polished art as well as features like hints, special types of pieces/hexagons like certain ones that can turn, or move on its sides instead of back and forth, and maybe even a mechanic on certain levels that allows you to choose one piece to become gaseous and move through other pieces.

Overall i think this is already solid for a playable demo. Keep up the good work! :)

The bug is now fixed so any symbols used in the Core Loop step (including apostrophe's) will now export correctly.

Thank you again for the feedback. You've contributed to making this program better for everyone!

Nice catch!

Thank you for taking the time to report this. I’ll fix this as soon as possible.

Tired of losing track of scope, theme ideas, or team goals during the chaos of a jam? GDD Wizard helps you stay structured and creative — all in one place.

Designed specifically for game jams, it guides you through every stage of planning with clear, practical prompts.

✨ Key Features:

• 🧩 Jam-Focused Template: Designed to help you nail scope, concept, and mechanics fast.
• 💬 Collaboration-Friendly: Perfect for organizing ideas with your team before the rush starts.
• 🎯 Scope Control: Keeps projects realistic and deadlines sane.
• 🧠 Export & Share: Save your completed GDD and instantly share it on Discord or itch.io.

🔗 Download GDD Wizard

Thank you so much for the feedback. Still relatively new at this so it really does mean a lot to learn more about the proper etiquette in environments like this. I’ll be sure to put more consideration into promoting stuff like this. Thanks for being so understanding. I hope some great games come out of this jam!

Sorry about that! Honestly didn’t even consider that it might come off in a bad way. Please let me know if you’d like me to remove this post. I’ll be much more careful about this stuff in the future

We made a free tool to help with the initial chaos that can sometimes leave game jam project unfinished.

GDD Wizard comes with a Basic Template suited to small projects, and a Game Jam Template which is meant to deliver structure for teams while maintaining speed.  It has support for English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and German! New translations are being added frequently.

If GDD Wizard helps you with your jam project, or if you have a bug to report, please leave a comment here or on the product page. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Check it out here!  

We made a free tool to help with the initial chaos that can sometimes leave game jam project unfinished.

GDD Wizard comes with a Basic Template suited to small projects, and a Game Jam Template which is meant to deliver structure for teams while maintaining speed.  It has support for English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and German! New translations are being added frequently.

If GDD Wizard helps you with your jam project, or if you have a bug to report, please leave a comment here or on the product page. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Check it out here!  

We made a free tool to help with the initial chaos that can sometimes leave game jam project unfinished.

GDD Wizard comes with a Basic Template suited to small projects, and a Game Jam Template which is meant to deliver structure for teams while maintaining speed.  It has support for English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and German! New translations are being added frequently.

If GDD Wizard helps you with your jam project, or if you have a bug to report, please leave a comment here or on the product page. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Check it out here!  

Glad to hear that.

Hope it continues to be helpful in your projects!

Thank you for the feedback!

Hope it helps you with your project :)

We made a free tool to help with the initial chaos that can sometimes leave game jam project unfinished.

GDD Wizard comes with a Basic Template suited to small projects, and a Game Jam Template which is meant to deliver structure for teams while maintaining speed.  It has support for English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and German! New translations are being added frequently.

If GDD Wizard helps you with your jam project, or if you have a bug to report, please leave a comment here or on the product page. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Check it out here! 

We made a free tool to help with the initial chaos that can sometimes leave game jam project unfinished.

GDD Wizard comes with a Basic Template suited to small projects, and a Game Jam Template which is meant to deliver structure for teams while maintaining speed.  It has support for English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and German! New translations are being added frequently.

We hope this tool assists you in reviving your project! If you have a bug to report, please leave a comment here or on the product page. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Check it out here! 

We made a free tool to help with the initial chaos that can sometimes leave game jam project unfinished.

GDD Wizard comes with a Basic Template suited to small projects, and a Game Jam Template which is meant to deliver structure for teams while maintaining speed.  It has support for English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and German! New translations are being added frequently.

If GDD Wizard helps you with your jam project, or if you have a bug to report, please leave a comment here or on the product page. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Check it out here! 

We made a free tool to help with the initial chaos that can sometimes leave game jam project unfinished. We believe the Rabbit Jam may benefit from a tool like this because professional and presentable game design documentation is a healthy habit to build for devs who are starting out.

GDD Wizard comes with a Basic Template suited to small projects, and a Game Jam Template which is meant to deliver structure for teams while maintaining speed.  It has support for English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and German! New translations are being added frequently.

If GDD Wizard helps you with your jam project, or if you have a bug to report, please leave a comment here or on the product page. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Check it out here!