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How To Sell a Video Game Idea?
fobsta writes "Do any Slashdotters have experience of selling video game ideas? I'm an artist who has programmed a rough-as-nails demo and animated a trailer to explain my concept. Obviously I think it's fun, it shows promise, and my friends think it's cool. Who should I pitch the idea to? Existing video games companies, venture capitalists, or what about those dentists who financed the Amiga? Are they still around? I've had a previous idea hijacked, and received no reward for it whatsoever; how can I prevent this happening again?"
Ideas are cheap. If you want to cash in on it, you have to go at it your self.
The people who make the big bucks are those who can take an idea and make it into a product.
Even pretty good ones like say the Portal (the game ) concept, is nothing without the follow through, the attention to detail and creativity that brought it to life.
You could just as easily make perfectly crap game with the same concept and story.
"That's a horrible idea, Tom."