Build Worlds That Can Grow
Create intellectual property documentation that supports expansion beyond your original game, maintaining consistency as your universe develops.
Back to HomeWhat This Service Delivers
You'll receive comprehensive intellectual property documentation designed specifically for your game universe. This goes beyond basic world-building—it's a structured foundation that enables consistent expansion across sequels, merchandise, or other media.
Your IP documentation will include detailed world-building that answers fundamental questions about how your universe functions. Character bibles ensure personalities and histories remain consistent across different contexts. Style guides maintain visual and tonal coherence as your property develops.
Beyond immediate use, you'll have documentation that facilitates team alignment. When multiple developers, writers, or external partners work with your IP, they'll have clear references ensuring their contributions fit your established universe rather than contradicting it.
The emotional benefit extends beyond the practical deliverable. You'll have confidence that your game world has the depth to support long-term growth. That assurance allows you to consider expansion opportunities knowing your IP foundation can accommodate them without requiring retroactive fixes.
Understanding Your Challenge
Creating game worlds often happens organically during development. You make design decisions that serve immediate gameplay needs without necessarily documenting the broader implications. This approach works for single projects but creates challenges when considering expansion.
Perhaps you've contemplated a sequel but realized your original game left important questions unanswered. Or maybe you've had discussions with partners interested in your IP, only to discover you lack the documentation they need to understand your universe thoroughly. These situations reveal the gap between having created a game world and having documented intellectual property.
There's also the internal consistency challenge. As teams grow or change, maintaining coherent world-building becomes difficult without clear references. Different team members may interpret aspects of your universe differently, leading to contradictions that players notice and that become harder to reconcile as your property develops.
The documentation itself presents challenges. You understand your universe intimately, but translating that understanding into structured documentation that others can use requires time and organization many development teams don't have while managing active projects.
Our Approach to IP Development
We focus specifically on intellectual property documentation for games, which means our process addresses the unique needs of interactive media. Rather than generic world-building exercises, we create documentation that serves both game development and potential expansion.
World-Building Foundation
We document the fundamental rules and systems that govern your universe, ensuring consistency as your property expands into new stories or contexts.
Character Documentation
We create comprehensive character bibles detailing personalities, histories, relationships, and development arcs that maintain consistency across different media.
Visual Style Guides
We develop style documentation that maintains visual coherence across different artists, products, or media while allowing appropriate flexibility.
Tone Documentation
We establish guidelines for voice, humor, themes, and narrative approach that keep your IP feeling consistent regardless of who creates content for it.
This methodology emerged from working with game developers who needed IP documentation for various purposes—sequel development, licensing discussions, team expansion, or simply ensuring internal consistency. The process balances thorough documentation with practical usability, creating references people actually consult rather than comprehensive texts that sit unused.
Working Together
Our collaboration begins with understanding your game universe as it currently exists. We'll experience your game, review any existing documentation, and discuss your vision for where this IP might go. This exploration helps us identify what needs documentation and what level of detail serves your purposes.
Throughout development, you'll receive draft documentation sections showing how your IP is being structured. These drafts allow you to provide feedback ensuring the documentation captures your vision accurately. We encourage these discussions—you're the authority on your universe, and our role is organizing that knowledge effectively.
The final deliverable includes multiple documentation types organized for practical use. World-building documentation explains fundamental universe rules. Character bibles detail important personalities. Style guides maintain visual coherence. Tone guidelines ensure consistent voice. Each section addresses specific use cases while working together as a cohesive system.
Many developers find this process clarifying. Articulating aspects of your universe that have existed primarily in your mind often reveals opportunities for deeper development or areas where implicit assumptions need explicit documentation.
The Journey Timeline
Universe exploration, existing content review, and scope definition to establish documentation needs and approach.
World-building documentation development, establishing fundamental rules and systems that govern your universe.
Character bible creation, visual style guide development, and tone documentation with regular reviews for feedback.
Documentation refinement, organization for practical use, and final delivery with usage guidelines for your team.
The Investment
Intellectual Property Development
Comprehensive IP documentation for game universe expansion
This investment covers the complete intellectual property documentation process. You're not just purchasing written materials—you're acquiring a foundation that enables confident expansion of your game universe.
The emotional value extends beyond the immediate deliverable. You'll have documentation that supports licensing discussions, sequel development, or team expansion. That foundation allows you to explore growth opportunities knowing your IP can accommodate them consistently.
What's Included
- Comprehensive world-building documentation establishing fundamental universe rules and systems
- Character bibles detailing personalities, histories, relationships, and development arcs for key figures
- Visual style guides maintaining aesthetic coherence across different artists and media
- Tone and voice documentation ensuring consistent narrative approach across different content creators
- Timeline documentation tracking universe history and establishing chronological coherence
- Location documentation detailing significant places within your universe with consistent descriptions
- Usage guidelines helping team members and external partners apply documentation effectively
- Regular draft reviews during development allowing your feedback to shape final documentation
How Effectiveness Is Measured
Intellectual property documentation effectiveness shows itself in practical use. When team members reference the documentation for consistency checks, when external partners understand your universe through the materials provided, and when expansion projects maintain coherence with original content—these outcomes reflect effective IP development.
We structure documentation based on practical usability principles rather than arbitrary completeness. Each section addresses specific questions that typically arise during IP expansion. Organization follows intuitive patterns that make finding relevant information straightforward rather than requiring extensive searching.
Documentation Framework
- • Comprehensive universe rule documentation
- • Detailed character consistency references
- • Visual and tonal coherence guidelines
- • Practical organization for regular consultation
Expected Outcomes
- • Foundation supporting confident IP expansion
- • Improved team alignment on universe details
- • Reduced inconsistencies across projects
- • Better communication with external partners
Realistic Timeline
Intellectual property documentation typically requires 8-10 weeks from initial universe exploration to final delivery. This timeline allows for thorough world-building, comprehensive character development, and multiple review cycles incorporating your feedback. Rushing this process often results in superficial documentation that misses important details or lacks the depth needed for effective expansion support.
Our Commitment to You
We understand that investing in intellectual property documentation requires confidence that the outcome will serve your expansion goals effectively. You need assurance that the documentation accurately captures your universe and provides practical value.
Our commitment centers on satisfaction with the delivered IP documentation. If the materials don't capture your universe accurately or don't provide the practical references you need, we'll work with you to address specific concerns. This might involve expanding certain documentation sections, clarifying ambiguous elements, or reorganizing materials for better usability.
We also offer a no-obligation initial consultation before you commit to the full project. This conversation allows you to assess whether our documentation approach aligns with your expansion vision and gives us a chance to understand your specific IP development needs.
What This Means Practically
Content Expansion: If certain aspects of your universe need more detailed documentation than initially provided, we'll expand those sections.
Accuracy Corrections: If documentation misrepresents elements of your universe, we'll correct those inaccuracies to match your vision.
Organization Adjustments: If the documentation structure doesn't serve your practical needs, we'll reorganize materials for better usability.
Scope Modifications: If universe complexity requires more comprehensive documentation than initially estimated, we'll discuss appropriate adjustments.
Getting Started
Beginning this collaboration is straightforward. Reach out through our contact form with information about your game universe and expansion considerations. We'll respond to arrange an initial consultation where we can discuss your specific IP documentation needs.
During that conversation, we'll explore questions like: What does your game universe currently include? Where might you want to expand in the future? What level of documentation serves your purposes? Do you have existing materials we should incorporate? These details help us provide a more specific proposal tailored to your project.
After our discussion, you'll receive a detailed proposal outlining the scope, timeline, and approach we'd take for your intellectual property documentation. You can review this without pressure and reach out with any questions before deciding whether to proceed.
What Happens Next
Initial Contact
Send us your universe information through the contact form. We typically respond within one business day to arrange a consultation time.
Consultation Discussion
We'll have a detailed conversation about your game universe, expansion considerations, and documentation needs. This helps us understand your specific requirements.
Proposal Review
Receive a customized proposal outlining scope, timeline, and approach. Review at your pace and ask any questions that arise.
Project Initiation
If you decide to proceed, we'll begin with universe exploration and existing content review to establish documentation direction.
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