as few and far between as totally new ideas are these days, what is your opinion on openly discussing them?

I don''t like discussing my game ideas. Ive had one too many encounters where people enjoy both the stealing of my ideas & code and using them to gain credit/recognition.

Pathetic if you ask me for people who do that.


Hey, you asked =P

its just like in business never discuss anything that u thing could make you money one day. theres always that one person who will steal your idea

ohohoh...
lot of selfish people out there. Fortunately there are some people who are ready to share their idea/knowledge : how can i learn if nobody write tutorials? Come on guys, ideas are more profitable when you share them! Open source is the future, free knowledge is the future.
Learn to share your mind production!!
lunasol

Well, I do understand the resistements against sharing/discussing ideas brought out here. But I think these people should consider that the IDEA of a game/application is only 10 to 20 percent of the result. If you think you can earn your living by ideas you should perhaps volunteer for the job of a God :-) (or maybe his priest).

Seriously: sharing/discussing ideas is the ONLY way to modify them to a WORKING business plan. Without discussing your idea/plan you will soon have to learn that others either had the same (but improved it by discussing it) or that you create your project (game/app - whatever) and noone is willing to buy it since it lacks quality in areas you never thought about. This does not mean that you aren''t the best programmer in the world - it simply means you cannot think about EVERYTHING.

Games today are created by large groups of people earning their daily money with ONLY THAT.

Yes.. good working in a team, bad throwing your ideas out for people to take credit for. When you work in a team, your ideas go towards YOUR final product, not someone elses in a different country.

"not someone elses in a different country"

ohohoh... wAVaRiaN seems to be selfish AND nationalist...
btw nationalists are always selfish. Hope i will never have to work with such a guy...

Hey, sharing ideas is a v. good idea. But most of the professionals who write on this board have had to sign confidentiallity agreements, so they can never speak of that superb idea that makes their game better than anyone elses (accept to their team members that is).



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Fleejay

practically all ideas have been done years ago.
i remember when i invented the "octree" about 3 years ago (though i didnt call it that at the time). i was using it happily for about 6 months thinking i had one up on everyone else only to later read a description of an octree and go, bugger i didnt invent it after all. the same thing holds true for games/ideas. name me one game released in the last year that was original?

http://members.xoom.com/myBollux

well i try not to think of new original stuff in the scence that making the first fps game but merely original hibrid games like the ideas that i have like one idea would be this.

make a mmorpg that is based around cops and robbers.
you would have your drug czar, corrupt da, interntal affairs
cops on the beat and you could choose the path of crime or justice. course i also was thinking if that would cause a lot of flak from the media but who cares about the rightwinged democrat scumbags anyway