Game ideas are ten a penny. When I worked at a game company we got three of four "ideas" sent to us every day of the week. We threw all of them in the bin, fancy artwork and all.
If you want to design games you need to start applying for jobs as a game tester. If your feedback/ideas are good you'll work your way up.
Beware though... if there's one thing which outnumbers game ideas it's people who want to be game testers. There's millions of people who think getting paid for playing video games would be the coolest job ever, though the reality is that testing games is nothing like playing them.
Having been a game tester I can tell you two things: One, yes, you can work your way up; Two you better be the right sort of pleasant kiss-ass to do it.
Becoming a game tester is easy if you know how to play games and write about your procedure. Becoming an AP at a game company requires all sorts of politics and backstabbing and being nice to people you hate or who hate you daily.
And once you're an AP apparently you have to slog a few years on the company's main product until they trust you enough to make suggestions. Then they *might* ask you if you have an original idea.
This is BS. As a manga letterer in America I can tell you specifically that at least one MAJOR manga publisher browses the scanlation sites to find out what properties NOT to bring over. It makes no business sense to invest in putting out an edition with a competing translation (fan-made or not) and muddies the potential licensing. Also, many Japanese publishers (espically the giants) are not turning "a blind eye" but are looking into whatever legal angles they have available in this country and abroad to bring scanlation to an end. And bottom line for the artists is if they do not see money for their work a pirated version harms them. Period.
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Game ideas are ten a penny. When I worked at a game company we got three of four "ideas" sent to us every day of the week. We threw all of them in the bin, fancy artwork and all.
If you want to design games you need to start applying for jobs as a game tester. If your feedback/ideas are good you'll work your way up.
Beware though ... if there's one thing which outnumbers game ideas it's people who want to be game testers. There's millions of people who think getting paid for playing video games would be the coolest job ever, though the reality is that testing games is nothing like playing them.
Having been a game tester I can tell you two things: One, yes, you can work your way up; Two you better be the right sort of pleasant kiss-ass to do it.
Becoming a game tester is easy if you know how to play games and write about your procedure. Becoming an AP at a game company requires all sorts of politics and backstabbing and being nice to people you hate or who hate you daily.
And once you're an AP apparently you have to slog a few years on the company's main product until they trust you enough to make suggestions. Then they *might* ask you if you have an original idea.
This is BS. As a manga letterer in America I can tell you specifically that at least one MAJOR manga publisher browses the scanlation sites to find out what properties NOT to bring over. It makes no business sense to invest in putting out an edition with a competing translation (fan-made or not) and muddies the potential licensing. Also, many Japanese publishers (espically the giants) are not turning "a blind eye" but are looking into whatever legal angles they have available in this country and abroad to bring scanlation to an end. And bottom line for the artists is if they do not see money for their work a pirated version harms them. Period.