Hello! I need thoughts on my upcoming game concept to get some honest feedback on its design, potential, and how I can improve(the games name is secret portals for now and it used to be mid(the Ohio portals). I might hire people for it since I don’t know how to build or make visual effects and etc. I can code/script and that’s about it I can also design some stuff but anyway I’ll need thoughts on how to make the concept better and how to make it not get boring after a while.
So the game and its concept is almost a survival horror game except some other stuff does not need to be horror and it wont really be all that scary just some stuff. Now the core game loop revolves around there being these ancient portal in a big forest that you have to find and the portals would take you to different dimensions and you try to escape or get out of the portal to the others or just get back to the forest and some can be goofy or scary etc. And there is a mystery behind the portals past and you try to figure it out with there being clues and I want it to have multiple endings and there would be shop in some portals to help you because maybe you can get some sort of currency or something and that’s it for the game concept(for now).
Right now the progress on the game is just early planning and I do have a base game so I basically just have the core concept written down and some mechanics and some idea’s for some map design(mainly the some of the forest). Also I plan for this to be a first person game. What I am gonna work on next is probably drawings of the designs i have in mind(or I could be lazy and hire somebody for that). I want to make some profit on this (for personal reasons I don’t want to say) but I don’t want to make it pay to win so any suggestions on what i should add(I have already thought of some game passes and stuff like a revive team or revive or something like that) so should i add skins or stuff like that?(I cant do gambling so robux chance).
Finally here are some top questions:
1: Does this core loop/game concept sound interesting or engaging enough to keep players online/playing for a long time, or will it get repetitive too quickly and if it does how do i fix it?
2: What are the best horror game passes or developer products you’ve seen that actually make money without ruining the game balance(no gambling/robux chance so like robux crates)?
3: What are the biggest mistakes new Roblox horror/survival developers make that I should avoid?
Thank you for reading this and any feedback or advice!
