April 2018
Beginner
476 pages
14h 4m
English
You have a couple of sentences, three maximum, to describe what your game is going to be. The introduction has to condense all the information that you will expand in the rest of the document. This is your first page and if it doesn't catch your reader's attention, nothing else you have to say will.
It's not only that; by stripping your whole game down to such a fundamental description, you are focusing on what's really important. It's like a mantra you will have to follow during development because that's your promise to your players.
It's called a hook because the reader wants to know more. Some call it an elevator pitch because it's what you can say to a stranger in a 30-second elevator ride. A great example ...