Game Design Foundations, 2nd Edition

Choosing an Appropriate Concept to Research

A “wannabe” game designer wanted my mentoring. He had three game

design concepts that he thought would earn him millions and have the

major publishers begging to sell his games.

His background was working as an international contract lawyer and he

had a graduate degree in international business law and an undergraduate

degree in paleontology (dinosaur scientist). He had played a lot of recent

games, especially sims, RPGs, and FPSs. He played both single- as well as

multiplayer versions of his favorite games on the Internet, but he had

never designed a game, let alone worked on a game in any capacity.

Let’s look ...