BMGD - Game Development Module

Complete guides for the BMad Game Development Module (BMGD) - AI-powered workflows for game design and development that adapt to your project’s needs.

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Getting Started

New to BMGD? Start here:

• Quick Start Guide - Get started building your first game
  • Installation and setup
  • Understanding the game development phases
  • Running your first workflows
  • Agent-based development flow

Quick Path: Install BMGD module → Game Brief → GDD → Architecture → Build

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Core Documentation

• Game Types Guide - Selecting and using game type templates (24 supported types)
• BMGD vs BMM - Understanding the differences

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Game Development Phases

BMGD follows four phases aligned with game development:

Phase 1: Preproduction

• Brainstorm Game - Ideation with game-specific techniques
• Game Brief - Capture vision, market, and fundamentals

Phase 2: Design

• GDD (Game Design Document) - Comprehensive game design
• Narrative Design - Story, characters, world (for story-driven games)

Phase 3: Technical

• Game Architecture - Engine, systems, patterns, structure

Phase 4: Production

• Sprint Planning - Epic and story management
• Story Development - Implementation workflow
• Code Review - Quality assurance
• Testing - Automated tests, playtesting, performance
• Retrospective - Continuous improvement

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Choose Your Path

I need to…

Start a new game project → Start with Quick Start Guide → Run brainstorm-game for ideation → Create a Game Brief with create-brief

Design my game → Create a GDD with create-gdd → If story-heavy, add Narrative Design with create-narrative

Plan the technical architecture → Run create-architecture with the Game Architect

Build my game → Use Phase 4 production workflows → Follow the sprint-based development cycle

Quickly test an idea → Use Quick-Flow for rapid prototyping

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Related

• Game Types Guide - Understanding game type templates
• BMGD vs BMM - Comparison with core method
• Glossary - Terminology reference