come up with dozens of game ideas in 30 minutes

[@Spagooter9375]

The easiest way for me to come up with ideas is to write down all my favorite genres/settings and put them into a random combination generator. One of the results I got was WWI trenches combined with medieval knights which instantly sparked some ideas for a cool game. One thing I've learned too is that theres no such thing as a bad idea, just ideas that need more work. Even if a bad idea is completely transformed into something unrecognizable, it still got you to that other more polished idea.

[@Skeffles]

Great video! I'll have to return to this when looking for my next project idea.

[@davidtourangeau]

What works best for me is to think of simple mechanics and two-step (or cascade) mechanics. Ex: if you do this, then it make that. Then i add restrictions, or rules, or logic to make it hard and fun. Example : a cube that shoot a laser on one of its side +a conveyor belt + a rotating platform or I add a reflector/mirror for the laser. Rules or restrictions: every 5 seconds, it goes counterclockwise. Sometimes for puzzles, i work backward : i put the solution in place, then add obstacles. I make all prefabs (a plain cube sometimes) with scripts attached. then I play with it in realtime to get a sense of fun. If it isn't, I scrap the idea, but i keep the prefabs as a base.

[@Rattacadabra]

Great video! Makes me think of an exercise i had to do in college where we were asked to make a list of games we played as children with friends or classmates and pick one or 2 and just change around, add or drop rules and see what happens. Its the same thing that can be applied to video games too

[@Savallion]

For sure! Games exist in a lot of different formats, just like stories.

[@necooo]

I was listening to this in the background and the sound effect you use had me thinking each time that my headphones was running out of battery...

[@Savallion]

oops

[@aliyaperetch8016]

Keep it up! 🔥❤

[@DanSetiBello]

No ONI (Oxygen Not Included) on your library? :O Blasphemy!! hahaha

[@Savallion]

It is on there, actually. This is definitely not a video where you can get the full breadth of my gaming history 😂 there's so much more than I've mentioned here.

[@NathoSteveo]

;D