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Hi
I have a brillant idea for a board game. I dont have the money or time to actually make a prototype. It isnt a simple card and board type game. It would require plastic and component parts manufacturing. Which companys accept subbmissions for this type of idea. Ive noticed that there are many games on the market that are made by Hasbro and Matel that have somewhat big production costs but they both dont accept subbmissions and they dont state who there agents are. can anyone help me as this game is sort of like a cross between Indiana Jones and Mouse trap.
Yours sincearly Nathan Cunico

Please email me : ncunico@yahoo.com.au

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Re: help a newbie

Hi

ncunico wrote:
Hi
I have a brillant idea for a board game. I dont have the money or time to actually make a prototype.

Its good to have ideas but there are a lot of people that have great ideas for games that doesn't get anywhere. If you don’t have the time to do a prototype (a prototype to visualize a game will probably not cost so much), no one else will do it either. If you don’t take the time to make the prototype, then you don’t believe in the game (you will probably not make any big money on game design).
Take a look in this forum. There are several of hundreds of great ideas that did not become anything. The main reason is that the designers did not complete the game.

I don’t know if there are any game company out there that buys ideas and not a game. I would doubt it. So if you want to sell your idea, I suggest that you at least write down an outline, make a quick prototype, tries to visualize the game. Maybe you can cooperate with a designer (there are several great designers at this forum, to make a prototype.

// Johan

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Hello Nathan,

We all have brilliant ideas for games here. That's the easy part. The hard part is converting that idea into a working, playable, enjoyable game.

You cannot sell a game idea to a publisher. You need to show them a working prototype and an accompanying ruleset. If you aren't willing, or able, to invest some time and money into the design, then don't expect publishers to be interested. It's as simple as that.

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ncunico wrote:
Hi
I have a brillant idea for a board game. I dont have the money or time to actually make a prototype. It isnt a simple card and board type game. It would require plastic and component parts manufacturing. Which companys accept subbmissions for this type of idea. Ive noticed that there are many games on the market that are made by Hasbro and Matel that have somewhat big production costs but they both dont accept subbmissions and they dont state who there agents are. can anyone help me as this game is sort of like a cross between Indiana Jones and Mouse trap.
Yours sincearly Nathan Cunico

Please email me :

Nathan,

I'm with everyone else here; a company won't bother with an idea. Ideas are great; a lot of stuff sounds good on paper, but the devil is in the details. You really can't know if a game will be fun or not until you actually prototype it and try it. One alternative you could do is to make an electronic prototype of the game in shockwave or flash. This would serve you two-fold: You could get a pretty good feel for how the game would play with the expensive components without actually creating them and the game publisher would know you were serious about your idea and that you had spent some time and actually developed it.

I know nothing about shockwave or flash, but there are tons of individuals online who could create your game if you took the initiative to look around.

Good luck!
-Darke

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