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By: Katherine

Katherine — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:05:52 +0000

What if I have what I think is a great game idea, would love for the game to exist so I could play it, am not particularly interested in seeing any money as a result of a game being created from my idea, have no resources for creating the game myself and no skills to back it up, but want to put the idea out there for someone else to use IF they think it has merit or that they can do something with it?

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By: Chris Pelling

Chris Pelling — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:17:51 +0000

I completely agree with #1 and #2. I always let game ideas simmer for a few weeks before acting on them. I’ve rejected a lot of bad game ideas (that initially sounded good) this way! It’s too easy to get caught up in the excitement of an idea and overlook some fatal flaw. Even if it isn’t flawed, there’s no point working on something that you’ll get tired of within a few weeks (or less), so you need to make sure you’ll remain interested for the long haul. I’ve broken this rule in the past, and ended up only working on the project for one day before tiring of it!

Once I’ve left it alone for a few weeks, then I prototype it. There’s no better way to refine mechanics (and to observe gameplay exploits!) than to see them in action.

ZeHa: I would show your prototype to some trusted friends and make them promise not to tell anyone about it. That has its own pitfalls, though, since your friends might not be honest with you if they don’t like it, and (constructive) negative comments are very important in the prototype stage.

It is possible to be too over-protective of an idea. Don’t let your desire for secrecy cause you other problems. :-)

By: ZeHa

ZeHa — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:09:55 +0000

We recently had a unique idea (and I’m pretty sure it is unique ;) and we started doing a little prototype, but at the moment, we froze the project since we’re working on something else already. And somehow, I’m pretty unsure if the gameplay is really cool, so I’d like to present our prototype to some folks… but then again, I fear that someone might take the idea and then be the first one who gets the game out, since we can’t finish it off quickly at the moment.
What would you do? I thought about presenting it to some non-developers (friends), but of course the opinions of some developers would still be interesting.