Ideas are like gold. No matter how good you are at implmenting a design and programming. If you don't have the good and orignal ideas to build off of your project will fail. When your devising your game ideas think to yourself what makes this idea diffrent from all the others currently on the market? Is it and idea that improves or elimantes a common flaw? Does it provided a new dimension to gameplay? Is it realistic to implement? What makes this a good idea compared to others on the market?

Also your idea may not be "orignal" but thats not to say that your combination of ideas is not orignal.

Lastly remeber not all idas are good ideas.

Case in point Replaceing all the spites in AOE with starwars ships is not a good idea.

[edited by - TechnoGoth on July 15, 2003 5:23:53 PM]

quote: Original post by TechnoGoth
Ideas are like gold. No matter how good you are at implmenting a design and programming. If you don''t have the good and orignal ideas to build off of your project will fail.

Not true. Well-implemented clones sell well. Poorly implemented great ideas tend to flop. An idea is only as good as its applicability to a real situation. Ideas are like gold but implementations are the real currency.

Ideas are not worthless. Being friends with the guy who "invented" the webring, I can speak with some experience. Not that I want to commit an experencal falicy here, but this guy''s idea was dead simple. For all outward appearences the idea was also worthless . He however, pursued the idea a little further, talked to the right people and ended up selling his idea and work on the webring to some company for 3.5 million. The nice lad purchased his mom a house and then promptly became a little wild ;p .

All because of a stupid idea. And we can all agree that webrings are stupid.

And no, there is no such thing as being so smart that you can sell "ideas" all day long. Well, at least not in the video game industry. Is there a movie Guru? Some guy who sits enlightened? I didn''t think so. Usually the really sharp guys go out and create first-hand giving form to at least one or two of the thousands of great ideas they have on a given day.

I''ll stop this has all been said before by other posters but I just felt like rambling some.

Well the reason their are no movies gurus is that as far as the major hollywood producers are conerened scripts are a nessery evil.

But in another these people could be considered gurus I suppose they come up with Ideas like will make a movie about an imanginay world ruled by computers. Then tell the writer to come up with a script and a directoy to make it into a movie.

Making games is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration