# Game Brief: [Working Title]

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not a brief. Fill every REQUIRED field; the three RECOMMENDED one-liners are cheap
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**One-sentence pitch:** [Describe the game in one excited sentence. If it takes two, cut until it's one — "the longer your pitch, the more diluted your vision."]

## Core loop
<!-- The cycle the player repeats. What they do → what they get → why they do it again. 2–4 bullets. -->
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## Player goal & fail state — what "working" looks like
<!-- What the player is trying to achieve (the win, the score, or the point) and how a run ends or fails. Even a cozy or sandbox game has a "a session feels complete when…". This is the one field your stories' ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA trace back to — it turns "the game works" into something testable. One or two lines. -->
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## MVP — what must exist to be the game
<!-- The ruthlessly short list of features without which this ISN'T the game yet. Each one becomes a story. Longer than ~7 and it's not an MVP. -->
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## Out of scope — not building this
<!-- What you're deliberately NOT doing. The list that saves the project. Be specific: "no multiplayer", "no save system", "one level only". -->
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## Build order
<!-- The sequence to build the MVP. Risky / core-fun thing FIRST — prove it's fun before you polish. -->
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<!-- RECOMMENDED — one line each, delete a line only if it's truly N/A for this game. -->
**Who it's for / what they feel:** [One line: the player and the feeling. e.g. "solo puzzle fans who want a cozy 20-minute sitting."]

**Art & audio direction:** [One line of aesthetic intent — drives asset choices. e.g. "flat pastel vector art, lo-fi ambient."]

**Reference game:** [One shipped game this is closest to, and the ~10% of it the MVP keeps. e.g. "Vampire Survivors — the auto-attack loop on one map; no meta-progression." Scoping against a real game is the fastest honest MVP check.]