Selling an Idea to a Game Developer?

IvyFanboy

IvyFanboy

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I have a BS in Web Design with a heavy focus on Flash. Video games are my true passion however and I've been leaning towards jobs requiring me to do actionscript 2/3 for casino games to help break me in. Thought the years I've come up with some very cool ideas for games that haven't been done. I've spent my time writing the down so that when I was skilled enough and had the resources I could build them on my own. As it is, a lot of my ideas are too much for a single developer to handle and was wondering how would I go about pitching the idea to an existing company. Even if it takes a few years, Give me any insight or places to look at.

My only idea is to build a very small flash demo, but the current idea I have is a fighter and even a small demo would require a LOT of work and learning before it would properly convey this new mechanic.
 
Even if the idea is good, people might not appreciate it coming from a nobody. A while back Doritos was running a "send us your idea" contest. I submitted an idea for a game featuring these tribes of little gremlin guys called "Gobblins". Each gobblin tribe has a different ability, one tribe's ability is they puke another tribe's ability is they're strong and can carry things ect, and you use those abilities to solve puzzles.

In no uncertain terms did they tell me I was stupid my idea was stupid and I had no business trying to come up with ideas for their contest. They threw out my idea without even bringing it up for public vote.

Lo and behold this shit hit Xbox Live this week:
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025841095e/

I'm not saying they ripped me off. But clearly somebody out there thought it was a good idea. your audience is subjective. They'ed probably give you some more benefit of the doubt if you had some stuff to prove your credentials.
 
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