I saw this GDC Classic Game Postmortem for Deus Ex by Warren Spector.
He talks about what he does before he makes a game to figure out if it's a good idea or not, for some reason he calls it the 6+2+1. He discusses it at the 11m39s mark in the video: https://youtu.be/tffX3VljTtI?t=11m39s
I think this is a good starting set of questions to ask yourself about your game.
Feel free to use this thread to write down your answers to these 9 questions.
He talks about what he does before he makes a game to figure out if it's a good idea or not, for some reason he calls it the 6+2+1. He discusses it at the 11m39s mark in the video: https://youtu.be/tffX3VljTtI?t=11m39s
- What's the core idea?
- Why do this game?
- What are the dev challenges?
- Well-suited to games?
- What's the fantasy?
- What are the verbs?
- Has anyone done this before?
- What's the one thing?
- Do you have something to say?
I think this is a good starting set of questions to ask yourself about your game.
Feel free to use this thread to write down your answers to these 9 questions.