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title: "Scope"
content_type: tutorial
url: "https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/scope-rrr?language=en"
language: en
difficulty: beginner
duration_minutes: 10
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last_updated: "2026-08-04T14:24:50.000Z"
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# Scope

Understand how choosing a realistic scope helps you finish polished games instead of incomplete, unstable projects.

Scope, or the size of an idea, is one of the most important parts of game design – it directly determines whether you will finish a game or end up with a half-made, buggy mess. This tutorial talks about how smart scoping – thinking small – frees you to make games you'll be proud of.

## 1. Introduction to Scope

[Video](https://connect-mediagw.unity.com/h1/20200626/videos/64e49fe2-5c1f-4bf5-81c2-ff2a25862037_Scope.mp4) ([Transcript (en)](https://connect-mediagw.unity.com/h1/20200811/4a9c8fce-e6b3-4702-b442-6ed7e5ab6942_Scope.vtt))

## 2. Learn More About Scope

Read these resources to learn more about how game developers have used scope to help them develop their game.

- A game developer reflects on the benefits of staying focused, while avoiding scope creep and future creep. “[**By staying focused on the present and deferring extras to future updates, you can deliver a polished, on-time product**](https://www.manuelsanchezdev.com/blog/scope-vs-future-creep-game-development?utm_source=chatgpt.com).”
- An indie designer gives practical advice for managing scope. **“[The completion of the game is more important than making it the next big thing](https://praliedutzel.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/5-tips-to-narrow-your-games-scope/).”**

## 3. Examples of relatively minimal, fun games

You may recognize these from the list of simple games to play we provided in the last unit. Go ahead and check out a few more of them now – either play them or watch a gameplay video, and think about how you’d go about implementing them.

These are polished, commercial games, and we’re not suggesting that you can finish a game or even one level to this degree of polish during this course. But they can help you get an idea of the right scope for this course.

- _T_omb of the Mask
- Bumper.io
- Helix Jump
- Rise Up
- Ridiculous Fishing
- Thomas Was Alone
- Super Hexagon
- Circuits
- Threes
- Dots
- iO
- 868-HACK
- Robot Unicorn Attack
- Drop 7
- Osmos/Hundreds
- Penguin Launcher
- Circadia
- Kingdom: New Lands