The Organic Nature of Game Ideation: Game Ideas Arise from Solitude and Mature by Bouncing

摘要

Producing new ideas may feel like an easy and automated task or even something mysterious, as ideas seem to come out of nothing, sometimes in weird situations, and designers rarely run out of them. Based on the interviews of 23 Finnish game designers and game professionals responsible for new ideas from 8 different companies, it is clear that ideas do not come about by accident. Game designers have different means and ways of affecting the process as well as different views on what a game idea is and what role game ideas have within the production process. In this paper, I will present the findings of the aforementioned interview study and discuss the implications of this study for the development of systematic approaches to game idea generation.