Chapter 16
Selling Yourself and Your Ideas to the Game Industry
There is no one way to get into the game industry. If you have been reading along with the designer perspectives throughout this book, you have probably noticed that each individual designer has a unique story to tell about how he or she got a start designing games. No two took the same path, and you too will have to find your own way. But in this final chapter, Iâll provide you with a number of strategies for selling yourself and your vision to the game industry. The three basic strategies I discuss are
- Getting a job at a publisher or developer
- Pitching and selling an original idea to a publisher
- Producing your ideas independently
Most game designers do not start out by selling ...
Get Game Design Workshop, 3rd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
