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A '''game design document''' (often abbreviated '''GDD''') is a highly descriptive [[living document|living]] [[software design document]] of the [[video game design|design]] for a [[video game]].<ref name="ox240">[[#Oxland|Oxland 2004]], p. 240</ref><ref name="bs14">[[#BrSch|Brathwaite, Schreiber 2009]], p. 14</ref><ref>[[#Bates|Bates 2004]], p. 276.</ref><ref>[[#Bethke|Bethke 2003]], pp. 101–102</ref>  A GDD is created and edited by the development team and it is primarily used in the [[video game industry]] to organize efforts within a development team.  The document is created by the development team as result of collaboration between their [[Game designer|designers]], [[Game artist|artists]] and [[Game programmer|programmers]] as a guiding vision which is used throughout the [[video game development|game development]] process. When a game is commissioned by a game publisher to the development team, the document must be created by the development team and it is often attached to the agreement between publisher and developer; the developer has to adhere to the GDD during game development process.

A '''game design document''' (often abbreviated '''GDD''') is a highly descriptive [[living document|living]] [[software design document]] of the [[video game design|design]] for a [[video game]].<ref name="ox240">[[#Oxland|Oxland 2004]], p. 240</ref><ref name="bs14">[[#BrSch|Brathwaite, Schreiber 2009]], p. 14</ref><ref>[[#Bates|Bates 2004]], p. 276.</ref><ref>[[#Bethke|Bethke 2003]], pp. 101–102</ref>  A GDD is created and edited by the development team and it is primarily used in the [[video game industry]] to organize efforts within a development team.  The document is created by the development team as result of collaboration between their [[Game designer|designers]], [[Game artist|artists]] and [[Game programmer|programmers]] as a guiding vision which is used throughout the [[video game development|game development]] process. When a game is commissioned by a game publisher to the development team, the document must be created by the development team and it is often attached to the agreement between publisher and developer; the developer has to adhere to the GDD during game development process.