The Devil Went Down to Georgetown High

A concept document for a devil-themed RPG created in one week.

Overview

• Date: October 2022

• Duration: 1 Week

• Team Size: 1

• Role: Solo Designer

• Genre: RPG

• Platform: N/A

Responsibilities

• In four days, create three rough, one-page game sketches for a turn-based RPG intended for PC release, with the prompt "The Devil's Gonna Have a Field Day."

• After receiving feedback, choose one concept to flesh out into a longer concept document in three days.

Postmortem

This was the final in a series of five one-week rapid prototyping challenges that each required us to concept games for different genres, platforms, and prompts, so I had a solid idea of what I had to do for this document. As an RPG, this final challenge required us to consider many more systems than previous challenges. If I could do this project again, I would spend more time thinking about the target audience. At the time, I didn't have as much of an understanding of the concept of a target audience, which left me lacking an idea of an ideal player in my head, something I could have used to better tailor the mechanics towards them.