If you’re into mobile gadgets, and potentially games as well, then at some point you may have considered what it would take to create your own games. Does it require programming skill, or connections within the industry? Can you submit game ideas to companies or do people usually go it on their own?

But before you make it too far into those types of logistical questions, you need to search for the inspiration for the games themselves. You can’t create something without a core idea, so where might that idea come from? A few possibilities include collected game sites, best-selling books, revisions of classic games, putting gameplay into the idea of character development, or even just approaching gameplay from the idea of psychological simplicity. [Read more…]