Writing & formatting your Game description

Your Game description appears in the app as the info card players can open while playing.

The description editor#

The description field has two modes, switched via the link above the field ("write in markdown instead" / "use the visual editor"):

• Visual (default): a rich-text Description field, plus a collapsible "How to play" section with Controls and Game Logic fields.
• Markdown: a single text area with the full Markdown source, including section markers. Use it to paste content written elsewhere or make precise edits.

Both modes stay in sync: switching converts between the fields and a single Markdown string (Description, then Controls, then Game Logic) with only leading/trailing whitespace trimmed.

The shared character budget#

• Description, Controls, and Game Logic share one combined 2500-character budget.
• Studio rejects an over-limit edit.
• When meta.json seeds these fields on the founding upload, excess text is silently trimmed from the body first, then logic, then controls.
• See Limits & Constraints FAQ for the complete limit table and failure modes.

The three sections#

All three are optional.

Controls#

How players interact, in one or two sentences.

• Tap the screen to jump. Hold to jump higher.
• Tilt your phone left and right to steer.
• Swipe in the direction you want to move.

Game Logic#

The objective and the rules: what success looks like, what to avoid.

• Collect all the coins before the timer runs out.
• Match three tiles of the same colour. The game ends when no more moves are possible.
• Survive as long as you can. The platform speed increases every ten seconds.

Description#

Anything else: background story, tips, a challenge for high scorers. Crediting third-party art or music by name? Minit Games has a dedicated declaration mechanism. See Licensing third-party content.

Markdown formatting#

All three fields support Markdown: bold, italic, headings (##, ###), lists, blockquotes, links. Keep formatting light, because players read on a small screen.

Tips for a great description#

• Write for a first-time player. What do they need to know to have a good time?
• Be concise. More than three or four sentences per section is too much.
• Use the sections consistently: controls in Controls, rules in Game Logic.
• Preview before publishing: the info button in the console's game preview shows your description exactly as players see it.