If you have an original game idea, my advice is try to build the game prototype first and see if the game is fun to play. Sometimes games that looks good in design tends to plays bad. Once you have solid game prototype that seems fun to play, then you can make blog about the game, create Facebook page and start participating in TigSource forum asking people feedback about your game project.

From my own experience, people will give feedback if you have something to show – aka your game prototype. Then it’s a matter of improving the game based on people feedback.

i’m very happy you did this, thanks for it, it’s what i always try to tell my friends but i’m not the best at putting my thoughts into words (which is probably why i’m an artist instead of a writer).

i do however, have one question that i always get mix responses on..

1) if i start blogging about my game idea and the development process, and “Build a Community” around my project, how can i protect my project? If I’m an indie developer it clearly means my production rate and speed will be really slow, wouldn’t some jerk-hole-established indie out there just steal my game idea and release it before me?

i think alot of the “indie success” comes from the originality nature of indie games, so if people steal your indie idea and create and launch the project before you, you will end up just either making a big loss in potential sales, OR, you will never finish developing because you need to “stay ahead” of the copycats.

what’s your advice?

thanks Ed!

Sincerely,
Robert – founder of Shark Tooth Entertainment