If the game is taking place
in a new world, with new characters, then you might have to spend a lot of time early on ?¬? guring out where
the game is taking place because this could drastically a?¬? ect everything in the game. If you??™re also planning
on coming up with highly innovative gameplay, this can also dramatically a?¬? ect the way you build the game
and the prototype.
The challenge with totally new game concepts is that you have to ?¬? gure almost everything out. It??™s also
just as hard for designers to take an existing game and try to expand it. Whether you are trying to brainstorm
new ideas for locations, stories, characters, or gameplay, it is tough to know where to look for inspiration.
Many designers just look at and imitate the competition, but I ?¬? nd that this only occasionally helps because
if the feature or idea is in a game that is already out, then the idea might already be old or clich?©. So I tend
to pull my new ideas from a lot of sources, including movies, TV, board games, books, and especially pen
and paper RPGs like GURPS. I have huge collections of RPG books that help me brainstorm a wide variety
of ideas when I get stuck.
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