help a newbie

Hi

Its good to have ideas but there are a lot of people that have great ideas for games that doesn't get anywhere. If you don’t have the time to do a prototype (a prototype to visualize a game will probably not cost so much), no one else will do it either. If you don’t take the time to make the prototype, then you don’t believe in the game (you will probably not make any big money on game design).
Take a look in this forum. There are several of hundreds of great ideas that did not become anything. The main reason is that the designers did not complete the game.

I don’t know if there are any game company out there that buys ideas and not a game. I would doubt it. So if you want to sell your idea, I suggest that you at least write down an outline, make a quick prototype, tries to visualize the game. Maybe you can cooperate with a designer (there are several great designers at this forum, to make a prototype.

// Johan

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Nathan,

I'm with everyone else here; a company won't bother with an idea. Ideas are great; a lot of stuff sounds good on paper, but the devil is in the details. You really can't know if a game will be fun or not until you actually prototype it and try it. One alternative you could do is to make an electronic prototype of the game in shockwave or flash. This would serve you two-fold: You could get a pretty good feel for how the game would play with the expensive components without actually creating them and the game publisher would know you were serious about your idea and that you had spent some time and actually developed it.

I know nothing about shockwave or flash, but there are tons of individuals online who could create your game if you took the initiative to look around.

Good luck!
-Darke