Requirement
5. Design a new game, and start the game design notebook here
Required Often forgotten
Any medium or combination of media. The requirement also introduces the game design notebook, which requirements 6 and 7 then write into and 7(c) hands over.
Notes and warnings
Warning. START THE NOTEBOOK NOW, AND KEEP IT AS YOU GO. Requirements 6(a), 6(b), 6(c) and 7(b) each record into it, and 7(c) hands it to your counselor and discusses what it shows, which is how the design changed between the first playtest and the last. Written up afterwards from memory it becomes a summary of a finished game, and the question 7(c) asks cannot be answered from a summary.
What this is made of
Where this step comes from
- Game Design Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-09-19), Requirement 5 · Introduces the game design notebook that requirements 6 and 7 write into.