How can I come up with new game ideas?

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#1

Hello there!
I have recently started losing ideas for games, and as a game developer I am now clueless on what I will do. I don’t know how I can create new game ideas from scratch, most ideas I have are just not possible in my skill level.

Are there any ways for developers to get fresh game ideas without researching 80 post before doing so? If you know any specific ways to get new game ideas, it would be nice if you replied with how, so everyone can know your ideas as well.

If this is in the wrong post, please tell me!

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#2

Take inspiration from other games. I do this all the time!

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#3

Short Answer:

To come up with new games ideas, you can:

  • Find inspiration
  • Find the genre of games you like
  • Think of what games you and people would like to play
  • Think of details (Find the setting, environment, components, etc)
  • Try combining ideas.

You also need to find the purpose of the game, mechanics, rules, etc, before you start creating a game, I don’t suggest rushing. What I suggest is to take time thinking until you find an idea.

Long Answer:

This is only a contribution to helping you come up with a game idea. Finding an idea can sometimes be hard if you don’t know how to think of one. To think of an idea, you first need to find the genre of the game, the genre you like and what players would like to play, the genre is a category. The next thing you would do is to think of what game you would make. You can try combining ideas or genres that you made. (Example: FPS Survival Game). When you find the genre you’ll like to choose, Before going into details of the game, Ask or just think if players would play your game (Or you can do this after finding the details of the game).

Now going into details, If you don’t know what details or what it means, it’s the setting, environment, the genre, etc. A setting is what time it has occurred. Now, The Past, Future, other time. An environment is where will it be (Example: House, Forest, City, Space, etc.). It’s not really that necessary to think of it yet. Anyway, when you’re done, find the purpose of the game, mechanics, and rules. The purpose of the game is the goal, or how you can win the game. Now think of the components of the game. Components are different pieces of the game (Monsters, Characters, Stats, Others). If you found the components of the game, now think of mechanics. It’s the thing you can do in the game such as interacting, walk, run, swim, jump, fly, sit, ragdoll, etc. Now the rules of the game, it is the game to what you can do and what you can’t do. Now the rest leads up to you.

You can also think of what you like, and how to make it into a game, and do research. You can also do other things you possibility you can do because you won’t be running out of game ideas. This is all I can possibly help.

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#4

One thing to consider when your thinking of a new game idea is to try to find something that you enjoy like the games you have been recently playing or even movies and tv shows can give inspiration to your game and also recent events going on in the world like the pandemic we are currently in right now. I made a game when the pandemic began and since gatherings were very limited at the time I made a game where you can socialize with other players while siting on a bench with virtual food. It became a small hit game for me it may only have about 3.1k visits but it turned out to be a good game idea because of the pandemic.

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#5

What i recommend doing is thinking of the genre you would like for your game to be in. Then find similar games to something you want to make (if there is any) and take insparation from that game, don’t copy it entirely tho, put your own inspiration in as well!

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#6

This question has been asked so many times before. Use this:

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