Step 1: Get a whiteboard Step 2: Write anything that comes to mind Step 3: If you like the thing you wrote, go a bit more indepth Step 4: If you like it so far, go even more indepth Step 5: Create a refined concept Step 6: Create a to-do list Step 7: Get to work Step 6229: ??? Or just start programming in Unity and just toy around with something. Also, iterate and change the game concept as you go.
A tip that helped me come up with some brilliant ideas is this: mix some of the mechanics from your favourite games together, and then remove some of the mechanics in favour of your own.
@@roguespartan2854 a fps game with contrasting colors and a mysterious story where the player kills monsters. perhaps it takes place on a planet where only the player exists (in addition to the monsters). focus on the story of the protagonist (the player) instead of the story of the planet or the monsters, adding sensitive and personal traits of this human.
There are alot of people including me who are not creative at all but still want to work in game development field... So it's okay don't worry Brother you will succeed inshallah... I'm also working so hard maybe in future we can work together...
A other good tip is to participate in game jams once in a while, it helps a lot when there is a certain theme to work around and almost always I've been satisfied with what I've created.
Thank you so much, I love to hear from experienced devs in these matters My biggest problem is coming up with ideas, and they are usually never constant, and I give up on them because they weren't right
Hello there! I do research on popular games and come up with game plans of my own. Recently, I have started selling my game plans to game devs like you. Lemme knw if u r interested. 😁
Thanks, man! I liked the video for tip no. 1 alone. It is the best of the tips! Just choose 3 random words and try to find an association between them to give birth to an idea.
Yeah i took your advice, and now im making a game about a shopkeeper who is eunning his shop in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, and is slowly going insane in the process. And il be damn sure the player becomes mad together with him
I chose tip #2 and now I'm making a 2D Star Fox game. There is also a 2.5D mode, but that’s optional. It’s a side-scrolling SHMUP equivalent of Star Fox 64. I draw most of the assets in TerminalMontage style with Procreate. Its also going to have multiplayer in the story, where as the original had only a versus mode. The host plays as Fox, and the other players get to pick between Falco, Peppy, and Slippy. Characters not being controlled by someone are replaced with a basic AI. The rest is just translated over from the reference game.
I've given up on making game ideas. I had the same idea for undertale. In 2013, I was thinking of game ideas, and I thought of a game I called, "Falling Down". Trevor Spruit, a child, is on his way to school, when the ground crumbles beneath him. He falls into this strange, underground world with quirky monsters, and finds many friends along the way. In the end, they find a way to get out, and the humans and monsters live together. I was heavily inspired by earthbound at the time, and I'm still furious. As I was deep in development, a game, titled undertale, got released. Interested, I researched about the game, and right away stopped development of the game, thinking everybody would just call me a copier.
thats disappointing, i would have loved to see a game like that. maybe you could devolop it into a fangame or something? im sure some people would love that
game concept: You play as a torch and have to light your way through a pitch black forest, but every time a level begins and ends, your flame is extinguished, forcing you to play with the environment itself to find fires to light yourself.
I'm so glad you and your sister are finding my videos helpful :) ! And you're completely right ! I forgot to add my own creation to the list :) ! (I'll add that right now) Cheers !
I had a dream with once with a pretty interesting mechanic, there would be plants or an object on the ground. In the game there would be multiple players or one person playing switching through characters, and if a/the player looked at a different character in the game, or themselves from a certain angle, it would resemble a certain plant. Then that character would pick up that plant, and if there was only one plant, a door would open, if there was multiple the process would be repeated on different characters until all plants were picked up, then the door would open.
I tried TIP #1, "Plant", "Blue", "Cat" Result: A cat must find mouses in a very very tall plants maze. He has got 2 minutes to find the most mouses possible. Warning, the plants are very tall!
Neat idea: Get 3 people. One person comes up with something like "Explore" another comes up with "red" and another "Cats" So someone makes the first one (type) the second (about the 3rd) and the 3rd (the main character thing)
Tip 5 : Inspire yourself from the real world I drove on the highway, saw the lights. I imagined a game where you repair the lights while traffic keeps riding. The broken light parts don't show the cars. Evade cars and repair the lights. I drove on the highway and saw a broken trucktyre. Immediately I had in mind a game to do a pitstop on Max Verstappen's F1. You switch a tyre, move is recorded. Time goes back, computer plays first tyre you do second and so on. After 4 tyres total recording can be replayed. Slowest tyre is time of pitstop. During vacation a boardgame was in the house we rented. I made a version against the computer of the boardgame. An appartementbuilding is on fire, move a firetruck to the right appartement, pump the water to right level/stock and release the water to extinguish the fire. Too late, appartement burned down. Some misses allowed. A straydog with a loose digestive system making poo each move. A parkkeeper chases the trail to catch you. You only get points when parkkeeper cleans the poo. (Some kind of reverse pacman)
Lol, i've already thought abouth making a 3D first-person rogue-like, but now i don't know if I should do it as this is one of the ideas given on the video
Hey :) ! Definitely not, go ahead and make it ! There are a thousand ways to make an FPS roguelike ! Your one will be drastically different than everyone elses :) !
thank you for this video. I have a story idea but instead of making it into a short film i would love to turn it into a game although i am totally new to game creation. this video definitely helps.
This could actually work sometimes! Just give it your own twist maybe make it multiplayer, or make it so they see the game from a different point of view, or change the demensionality of it like he mentioned
I had one idea of a 3rd person melee RPG game where you control a female character (important to story's symbolism) and you fight 6 different monsters in search of your missing friend as you help a town. But IF you kill the monsters, you progress through the STORY as usual, but absolutely nothing changes or is gainef, no money, no upgrades, no gear, no changes to the town but the minor gratification for a few missions. And how you save your friend depends on your choices
So. I don't use unity or any proper game engine. But I do code on lua (Roblox.) And this actually helped me alot. I came up with an idea that I usually played with friends 2 - 4 years ago. I started working on a project called "Bulldog: The game." It's pretty much bulldog but in Roblox. It's very simple too. The game runs on a simple code that makes a code function that freezes a player once they touch another player who is "it", Once the player is frozen a GUI (Text) Appears on the top saying "PLAYERNAME IS FROZEN! (Countdown from 10" The players have to run and save the player while not being touched by "it" otherwise a second countdown appears. If the countdown goes down and no one saves the player, the player is now "it" ---------------------------------------------------------- The players have to run to the other side avoiding "it" btw. Once they do they get awarded points if their succesful. The bulldog gets auto-switched every 5 minutes. This video really gives good ideas! Reccomended!
@@33s60 Lua is a coding language. Although its known as scripts. Many Roblox developers earn thousands of dollars a year from games. So yes. Yes it is.
Thank you so much! The last tip really helped, because right now, in the world, there is the corona virus, so now I can create a game that is like curing the world of a disease (not specifically the covid 19)!
okay, so i did the 3 words thing and I got: Craft, Thunder, Ring. so maybe you have to survive on an island with endless thunderstorms and find a ring to stop the storm and fight the final boss.
Question: how overused is the 'trapped in a virtual world' concept? Im trying to make a concept kind of based on 'little nightmares'. And this was one of the only things i could think of that didn't completely rip of the 1st game or the 2nd trailer. You'd travel through some kind of screen and enter different games, trying to survive.
So I have a story happening right now. I have a competition for 1 GRAND(which is a lot of money for a person my age). It ends August first btw. I used the 3 word thing and I got paper, poor, ablaze, so I thought of a poor piece of paper who is in the top floor of an orphanage for poor children whose family couldn’t afford to keep them. You are in the top floor and have to make it to the bottom and escape without catching on fire. I sure hope this wins :D
I have the idea down sort of, i want to create a 2d side scroller relaxing pixel art walking sim, basically. Problem is, that sounds so relaxing that it'll put the players to sleep lmao... How do i not make it boring? Would really appreciate suggestions/advice!
Okay so this is my idea for a game I’m taking different animal species mainly ones from Africa Asia and North America and pitting them against each other. One idea is that they are mutated and anthropomorphic. So missions will take place pretty much all over the world as you assemble your team to establish dominance over the new world
I tried the fifth one and I came up with a “play on the wii while your parents fight downstairs” simulator.
lol
oof
why is FBI watching all the gaming dev videos? hahaha
Same!
Are you for real?
Step 1: Get a whiteboard
Step 2: Write anything that comes to mind
Step 3: If you like the thing you wrote, go a bit more indepth
Step 4: If you like it so far, go even more indepth
Step 5: Create a refined concept
Step 6: Create a to-do list
Step 7: Get to work
Step 6229: ???
Or just start programming in Unity and just toy around with something.
Also, iterate and change the game concept as you go.
@Vitalii Hladiienko Not really... This could give like alot of ideas! Wich can be used for an game later on!
You could have stopped at the whiteboard ... that is the most important part ... writing down ideas, story boarding it.
@@NeedToDev there's always someone on the internet that knows everything and goes against what makes sense. checkered shorts is that guy
yeah that is just an ADHD mind.
oh my goodness I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING THATS WHY IM HERE.
Is tip #5 telling me to go outside
That's right ;D ! Outdoors can do wonders to motivation, and can really get you feeling inspired :) (true for me anyway).
Ugh. Do I need to leave my cellar?
@@sadwhale09 may no one know
You see, I have something called...
A window
Outside has great graphics and an impressively sized map, but I'm disappointed with the gameplay mechanics, and a lot of quests are pay-to-win. :/
A tip that helped me come up with some brilliant ideas is this: mix some of the mechanics from your favourite games together, and then remove some of the mechanics in favour of your own.
DOOM, Gris, and Monster Hunter World...
I don't know how to mash those together...
@@roguespartan2854 a fps game with contrasting colors and a mysterious story where the player kills monsters. perhaps it takes place on a planet where only the player exists (in addition to the monsters). focus on the story of the protagonist (the player) instead of the story of the planet or the monsters, adding sensitive and personal traits of this human.
I thought of something good
Mortal kombat 11 without microtransactions :D
that's going to be a bestseller in no time!
Its hard to argue with his assessment
Well son guess we'll be going without food this month
OPEN WORLD MORTAL KOMBAT???
As the most uncreative person on the planet, I thank you so much. Keep the good vids flowing.
Lemme stop you right there, im the most uncreative person alive
no lemme stop you right there. I am so not creative that I don’t know what I’m going to say
No please lemme stop you there, idk what else to say I’m not creative enough
Ksp let’s go
There are alot of people including me who are not creative at all but still want to work in game development field... So it's okay don't worry Brother you will succeed inshallah...
I'm also working so hard maybe in future we can work together...
Explore, red, and cats could be Cats Going To The Highway, a action packed exploring game with cats traveling to hell
Yeah, why don't you try make that game? :D
Crossy road cat edition?
I might make that if I do I'll tell you the name
@@jaxsongawesome2947Please do that's sound S L A P I N
Highway to hell: kitty edition
A other good tip is to participate in game jams once in a while, it helps a lot when there is a certain theme to work around and almost always I've been satisfied with what I've created.
Thank you so much, I love to hear from experienced devs in these matters
My biggest problem is coming up with ideas, and they are usually never constant, and I give up on them because they weren't right
Hello there! I do research on popular games and come up with game plans of my own.
Recently, I have started selling my game plans to game devs like you.
Lemme knw if u r interested. 😁
Thanks mate. I always have trouble coming up with ideas and now that I’ve seen this I will 100% be using these tips. Thanks again. 🙏
Hey :) ! I'm so happy to hear that ! Best of luck for your projects !
Cats exploration red
Kittens explore the underworld
Charlie The Fart this idea is amazing 😂😂
@Luka Grouwstra that's sort of like Night in the Woods
noted...
Communist Kittens exploring the moon
Yo I think you’re on to something here
Thanks, man! I liked the video for tip no. 1 alone. It is the best of the tips! Just choose 3 random words and try to find an association between them to give birth to an idea.
Red, exploration, cats...
The Battle Cats
Ahh yes....good days
Dough Dog thanks for the idea man
The cattle bats
Wow. That last tip actually helped me come up with something. Thank you so much!
I'm delighted to hear that :) ! Good luck !
Yeah i took your advice, and now im making a game about a shopkeeper who is eunning his shop in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, and is slowly going insane in the process. And il be damn sure the player becomes mad together with him
Hello.
I'm a game developer hoping if you might need a hand. If yes, can we discuss on discord?
The ORI soundtrack give me chills every time I hear it. EVERY SINGLE TIME!
I have 1000s of game ideas I’ve been making since I was like 6. Now I just gotta learn how to produce them
Actually i find Tip 3 the most unobvious but really fun and challenging one. :-D Overall great tips and video :-) Keep it up!
I chose tip #2 and now I'm making a 2D Star Fox game. There is also a 2.5D mode, but that’s optional. It’s a side-scrolling SHMUP equivalent of Star Fox 64. I draw most of the assets in TerminalMontage style with Procreate. Its also going to have multiplayer in the story, where as the original had only a versus mode. The host plays as Fox, and the other players get to pick between Falco, Peppy, and Slippy. Characters not being controlled by someone are replaced with a basic AI. The rest is just translated over from the reference game.
I've given up on making game ideas. I had the same idea for undertale. In 2013, I was thinking of game ideas, and I thought of a game I called, "Falling Down".
Trevor Spruit, a child, is on his way to school, when the ground crumbles beneath him. He falls into this strange, underground world with quirky monsters, and finds many friends along the way. In the end, they find a way to get out, and the humans and monsters live together.
I was heavily inspired by earthbound at the time, and I'm still furious. As I was deep in development, a game, titled undertale, got released. Interested, I researched about the game, and right away stopped development of the game, thinking everybody would just call me a copier.
thats disappointing, i would have loved to see a game like that. maybe you could devolop it into a fangame or something? im sure some people would love that
This right here is my greateast fear.
Okay..
A game in another dimension..
Hmm.........
Oh I know!
*call of duty in the 4th dimension*
damn!
game concept: You play as a torch and have to light your way through a pitch black forest, but every time a level begins and ends, your flame is extinguished, forcing you to play with the environment itself to find fires to light yourself.
An official turn based DOOM exists, it's called DOOM RPG and it's for old mobile phones.
Thank you so much man I came up with tone’s of game ideas with tip 1😊
Hello.
I'm a game developer hoping if you might need a hand. If yes, can we discuss on discord?
you are the best! your videos always inspire me and my sister...
By the way, I think you forgot something :
9 - The Enemies Within (Blackthornprod)
I'm so glad you and your sister are finding my videos helpful :) ! And you're completely right ! I forgot to add my own creation to the list :) ! (I'll add that right now) Cheers !
I had a dream with once with a pretty interesting mechanic, there would be plants or an object on the ground. In the game there would be multiple players or one person playing switching through characters, and if a/the player looked at a different character in the game, or themselves from a certain angle, it would resemble a certain plant. Then that character would pick up that plant, and if there was only one plant, a door would open, if there was multiple the process would be repeated on different characters until all plants were picked up, then the door would open.
, but that game that is being displayed on the background seen is amazingly done. Hats off
I tried TIP #1, "Plant", "Blue", "Cat"
Result: A cat must find mouses in a very very tall plants maze.
He has got 2 minutes to find the most mouses possible. Warning, the plants are very tall!
I’m so sorry Ik u commented this a year ago but uh- mice*
@@simonsayys7346 Imagine that he sees your reply. Lol
@@sherryalaraby1755 lol
OMG YES THE ORI AND THE BLIND FOREST SOUNDTRACK IS AMAZING
Neat idea: Get 3 people. One person comes up with something like "Explore" another comes up with "red" and another "Cats" So someone makes the first one (type) the second (about the 3rd) and the 3rd (the main character thing)
Red Cat Exploration sounds like a fun game idea
Dude you are a genius, watching this video had given me so much productivity , thank you so much.
U have no idea how much I needed this
The *can only make quirky stickman* part got me laughing
i.d.k. why but tip number 1 was so useful the first 3 words got me to a whole game idea with different features.
I came up with a duck that fights zombies with a broom and it’s wearing a flip flop while doing some puzzles in an old place, perfect
BRO I WAS THINKING ABOUT DARK SOULS AND U SHOWED IT UP
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY thank you Noa
Hey Braxton :) ! It was a pleasure making the video !
Tip 5 : Inspire yourself from the real world
I drove on the highway, saw the lights. I imagined a game where you repair the lights while traffic keeps riding.
The broken light parts don't show the cars. Evade cars and repair the lights.
I drove on the highway and saw a broken trucktyre.
Immediately I had in mind a game to do a pitstop on Max Verstappen's F1.
You switch a tyre, move is recorded. Time goes back, computer plays first tyre you do second and so on.
After 4 tyres total recording can be replayed. Slowest tyre is time of pitstop.
During vacation a boardgame was in the house we rented. I made a version against the computer of the boardgame.
An appartementbuilding is on fire, move a firetruck to the right appartement, pump the water to right level/stock and release
the water to extinguish the fire. Too late, appartement burned down. Some misses allowed.
A straydog with a loose digestive system making poo each move. A parkkeeper chases the trail to catch you. You only get points when parkkeeper cleans the poo. (Some kind of reverse pacman)
Lol, i've already thought abouth making a 3D first-person rogue-like, but now i don't know if I should do it as this is one of the ideas given on the video
Hey :) ! Definitely not, go ahead and make it ! There are a thousand ways to make an FPS roguelike ! Your one will be drastically different than everyone elses :) !
Thanks, also, i love your videos and games, keep doing them :)
Thanks man, this really helped! Keep up the good work!
Great and to the point! Getting those creative juices flowing is so important!
This is excellent. Thank you.
the game from 33 to 44 seconds gave me inspiration for characters
thank you for this video. I have a story idea but instead of making it into a short film i would love to turn it into a game although i am totally new to game creation. this video definitely helps.
00:34 game? What an amazing soundtrack
ori and the blind forest
Soundtrack is Darude - Sandstorm.
Rubén Cordero Ramos it’s never gonna give you up by rick astley
Nice tips! This is definitely something I struggle with.
Tip #5: Go outside
Me, during the COVID-19 pandemic: wut
Don't let COVID define you!
I’ve come up with many a game ideas but I just don’t have the skill set to make these ideas a reality
Same here :(
I used the first one, this is fun developing.
I've got an idea!
Make a ripoff of a game :D (not really)
Sounds Good (lol)
This could actually work sometimes!
Just give it your own twist
maybe make it multiplayer, or make it so they see the game from a different point of view, or change the demensionality of it like he mentioned
Or just remake something obscure with underused ideas. If you'll make it good, fans of the original will be only happy.
I've come up with dozen of game ideas now! Thank you so much!
I had one idea of a 3rd person melee RPG game where you control a female character (important to story's symbolism) and you fight 6 different monsters in search of your missing friend as you help a town.
But IF you kill the monsters, you progress through the STORY as usual, but absolutely nothing changes or is gainef, no money, no upgrades, no gear, no changes to the town but the minor gratification for a few missions.
And how you save your friend depends on your choices
So. I don't use unity or any proper game engine. But I do code on lua (Roblox.)
And this actually helped me alot. I came up with an idea that I usually played with friends 2 - 4 years ago.
I started working on a project called "Bulldog: The game."
It's pretty much bulldog but in Roblox. It's very simple too.
The game runs on a simple code that makes a code function that freezes a player once they touch another player who is "it",
Once the player is frozen a GUI (Text) Appears on the top saying "PLAYERNAME IS FROZEN! (Countdown from 10"
The players have to run and save the player while not being touched by "it" otherwise a second countdown appears.
If the countdown goes down and no one saves the player, the player is now "it"
----------------------------------------------------------
The players have to run to the other side avoiding "it" btw. Once they do they get awarded points if their succesful.
The bulldog gets auto-switched every 5 minutes.
This video really gives good ideas! Reccomended!
LMFAO YOU THINK THATS ACTUALLY PROGRAMMING.
@@33s60 It is?
@@33s60 Lua is a coding language. Although its known as scripts. Many Roblox developers earn thousands of dollars a year from games. So yes. Yes it is.
@@notbluskra roblox studio is not coding. Not even close. I bet you dont even know how to create a java constructor method
Thank you so much! The last tip really helped, because right now, in the world, there is the corona virus, so now I can create a game that is like curing the world of a disease (not specifically the covid 19)!
Idk why but your intro cracks me up 😂😂
Man this video was just toooo good for me.
You helped a lot with tip 1
Thanks for your tips, noah :) Now i can really have sum ideas on my indie game
okay, so i did the 3 words thing and I got: Craft, Thunder, Ring. so maybe you have to survive on an island with endless thunderstorms and find a ring to stop the storm and fight the final boss.
The tip number.1 is helpful, thank you so much, EPIC COOL
Thank you very much. This was helpful.
This video is gold!
Blue Sky methodology is a term and Infinity Wars is an example of a card game with simultaneous turns.
PS: Follow the fun and fail fast.
This helped a lot now I have a lot of ideas that i drew on my paper. I was stuck for 2 weeks
You actually really helped me a lot :3 Thanks!
Love you Man like always!
"Too many ideas"
me who never got an good idea: hm?!
Thank you so much for the Ideas! I will create a game soon as possible...
Request: Please make a 3d water simulation like "ori and the blind forest" in which wood planks are floating in the water.
Hey :) ! I actually have a 2D water tutorial on the channel that should be able to help you with that :) !
*Tip One probably will help me the MOST =D*
also could you make a first person controller tutorial
idea no 3 is what i will work for.
Question: how overused is the 'trapped in a virtual world' concept?
Im trying to make a concept kind of based on 'little nightmares'. And this was one of the only things i could think of that didn't completely rip of the 1st game or the 2nd trailer.
You'd travel through some kind of screen and enter different games, trying to survive.
The Duck Army I can’t think of any games that share that concept, looks like your in the clear!
Honestly it doesn't matter if the trope is overused, it's what you do with it that matters!!
Dude, this video is so usefull! it is a pity that I can't put more than one like!
Cool tips 👌
Love this channel
when u said stuck I thought u meant stuck on the house
Nicee buddy
Thank you very much 💖
loved all your videos ...keep doing the good work.....just letting you know.....you and @Brackeys are the reason i am bunking college ...Peace
So I have a story happening right now. I have a competition for 1 GRAND(which is a lot of money for a person my age). It ends August first btw. I used the 3 word thing and I got paper, poor, ablaze, so I thought of a poor piece of paper who is in the top floor of an orphanage for poor children whose family couldn’t afford to keep them. You are in the top floor and have to make it to the bottom and escape without catching on fire. I sure hope this wins :D
Very good video, i needed just this!
Hey and thanks :) ! I'm so glad to hear the video was helpful :) !
I know this is an older video, but I was surprised that I do a lot of these things you mentioned.
Thank you and i will do my best to try to use one to help me because i have been stuck on the same topic to make a game
like me or hate me. Me and my friend are making an Roblox Game, hes scripting and im doing the ideas.Thank you veryy much! 🥺
hey blackthornprod !! Thanks for all the videos. BTW, what's the name of the game with the beautiful soundtrack?? the soundtrack just amazes me!
This was extremely useful!
A game like Ailment, (which i really like) the three keywords was fighting, Explore, gameboy style (only one color)
Game name: Retro Souls
Oh my God Very helpful tips THX
I like your tips, bro! Thank you so much for the video. I will definitely use your tips
I have the idea down sort of, i want to create a 2d side scroller relaxing pixel art walking sim, basically. Problem is, that sounds so relaxing that it'll put the players to sleep lmao...
How do i not make it boring?
Would really appreciate suggestions/advice!
Hello.
I'm a game developer hoping if you might need a hand. If yes, can we discuss on discord?
Very helpful! Thank you.
This is great, I'm gonna try the word on card one
There's something I have to say for tip #5....
WE'RE IN THE FREAKING QUARANTINE
It helped me a lot thank u now i can make my game idea in seconds
Hi blackthornprod could u please make another video on game ideas because I lack a lot ideas.
Dude, you are the best! Thank you!
Okay so this is my idea for a game I’m taking different animal species mainly ones from Africa Asia and North America and pitting them against each other. One idea is that they are mutated and anthropomorphic. So missions will take place pretty much all over the world as you assemble your team to establish dominance over the new world
Cat Run Survival, sounds like a great mixture for a rage platformer style game
You are great, my friend, you are great!