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Your Game Design Document, Reimagined
Story, characters, mechanics, task board, and real-time collaboration — everything a game designer needs in one focused tool.
Marketplace
Where game ideas find their people
Sell concepts and full design documents, hire collaborators, or showcase your game to investors. Deals happen directly between you and the other side — GameDesignerX makes the introduction.
Concepts
Pitch a game idea and sell it to a studio or designer who can build it.
$9 flat fee
GDD Projects
Sell a complete design document, previewed straight from the editor.
$19 flat fee
Jobs
Find programmers, artists, writers, and composers for your project.
Always free
Investor Showcases
Present your game to investors and get introduced — deals happen directly.
$29 flat fee
Flat one-time listing fees — never a commission. Deals, payments, and agreements settle directly between you and the other side.
The toolkit
Everything you need to design great games
30+ specialized modules built around how game designers actually think and work.
01
Story & Lore
Chapters, dialogue scripts, and a full lore bible. Write and collaborate in real time with the built-in live editor.
02
Play Your Design
Walk through your game before it exists. It uses only the characters, places and mechanics you actually designed — and when a scene needs something that is not there, it tells you instead of inventing it.
03
Characters & World
Character sheets, relationship maps, locations, and item/object catalogs — everything that makes your world feel alive.
04
Game Systems
Document your mechanics, balance sheets, economy tables, and control schemes in structured, reusable modules.
05
Task & Sprint Board
A real-time Kanban board with sprint planning, milestones, and an integrated issue tracker to keep your team on track.
06
Export & Share
Export your full GDD to polished PDF or Markdown with one click. Share with stakeholders, publishers, or your team.
07
MCP Connector
Plug Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools straight into your GDD — every module readable and writable over the Model Context Protocol.
08
Steamworks Handoff
Design achievements, items, and store copy once — then export the exact files Steamworks accepts, instead of retyping everything into the partner site.
The workflow
From idea to shipped GDD in minutes
No complicated setup. Just a clean, focused workspace from day one.
Step 01
Create a project
Name your game, pick the genre and target platform. GameDesignerX sets up your full GDD workspace in seconds.
Step 02
Fill in your sections
Use any of the 30+ specialized modules — story, characters, systems, tasks, and more — each designed for how designers think.
Step 03
Collaborate & export
Invite your team for real-time collaboration, then export your complete GDD to PDF or Markdown with a single click.
Live tour
See it in action
A real tool built for how game designers actually work.
gamedesignerx.com / dashboard
All your projects at a glance
The dashboard gives you an instant overview of every project you're working on, your upcoming tasks, and recent activity — so you always know what needs attention.
Fresh from the blog
What we've been writing about
Deep-dives, product updates and notes for game designers — straight from the team.
4.9 / 5 — 500+ designers
Loved by designers at every stage
From solo indie devs to professional studios, GameDesignerX fits the way you design.
★★★★★
“GameDesignerX replaced three different apps I was using to track story, tasks, and character sheets. Having everything in one tool that actually understands game design is a game changer.”
JR
Jamie Reyes
Indie Developer
★★★★★
“I used to submit GDDs as messy Word documents. Now I share a clean, structured export and my professors are impressed every time. Highly recommend it for students and educators.”
SK
Sofia Kim
Game Design Student
★★★★★
“We onboarded our entire design team in under an hour. The real-time collaboration and kanban board cut our weekly sync meetings in half. It just fits the way we work.”
RL
Ryan Lassiter
Studio Lead
Pricing
Simple, transparent pricing
Start free and scale as your team grows. No hidden fees.
Free
Free
- 1 project
- All GDD modules
- Pitch Deck Export
- Free Marketplace job listings
- Community support
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Pro
$45/mo
- 10 projects
- Real-time collaboration (3 seats)
- PDF export
- Webhooks (2)
- API Access (120 req/min)
- MCP Connector (Claude, Cursor)
- Priority support
- Version history
Team
$90/mo
- Unlimited projects
- Unlimited collaborators
- PDF export
- 3 free Marketplace listings / month
- API Access (600 req/min)
- MCP Connector (Claude, Cursor)
- Webhooks (5)
- Dedicated support
- Custom export templates
Marketplace
Every plan includes the Marketplace
Sell concepts and GDDs, hire collaborators, or pitch investors. Flat one-time listing fees — GameDesignerX never takes a commission on your deals.
- Flat fees from $9 per listing — no commission
- Job listings are free for everyone
- Team: 3 free listings every month
Education
Special pricing for universities, colleges, and game design programs.
Custom
- Everything in Team
- Discounted institutional pricing
- Student seat management
- Classroom project templates
- Instructor dashboard
- Priority onboarding support
Enterprise
Custom-hosted solution built for large organisations.
Custom
- Everything in Team
- Unlimited seats
- Self-hosted / on-premise deployment
- Dedicated infrastructure
- SSO & SAML authentication
- Custom integrations & API access
- SLA & 24/7 priority support
- Dedicated account manager
- Custom contracts & billing
Questions about pricing? Get in touch.
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