Comments on: The First Steps To Starting Your Own Game Company And Making Games

By: Paul Eres

Paul Eres — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:02:49 +0000

I’d like to add one thing: don’t be overly ambitious for your first game. Make a simple freeware game with simple graphics, just as long as it’s fun and complete. Too often in cases like these perfectionism gets in the way, preventing anything from being done at all. If you want to make your perfect “dream game” you’re not going to do it. You’re just not. If you want to make a small, fun game and learn some skills and grow and gradually make better and better games, you will. Take a look at my own games (or at least the ones I’m not too ashamed of to post on my site), they started out simple and got gradually more complex and more ambitious. That’s the right way to go, not to try to get your “dream game” done your first time making one.

By: Mikushi

Mikushi — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:02:57 +0000

Good stuff as usual here ;)
Take your time is also a good advice, i saw a lot of young (or not) people who wanted to rush, and try to make a game in 1month, with most of the time no idea of what they’re doing.
Take the time to think about your idea, of what it needs to make it, of the skills it require to be done, and when you have a clear overview of what have to be done, think about creating a company.

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:03:53 +0000

Yeah just get started and build up from there, learn as you go along. The important bit is to *do something*.