Hi all,
I have been thinking for a while about starting my own game design company, i don't have much knowledge about game design etc.
But, i have loads of ideas and was thinking about setting up a company run mainly by students out of university in the UK.
What do you think about this?
New Game Design Company startup
Quote:Original post by waggle65
I have been thinking for a while about starting my own game design company, i don't have much knowledge about game design etc.
Quote:Original post by waggle65
What do you think about this?
You'll file for bankruptcy within a year or less.
1. How many game design companies do you know? I know of only a couple of people who get hired to do design because that isn't how the industry works. Designers are an integral part of a development team. Every team already has designers so they won't need to hire an outside company to do it.
2. If you knew anything about game design you would know that ideas aren't worth anything - it is the ability to implement them that is worth something. With no proven track record actually making games no company will hire your company to design their game.
3. Game design isn't an entry level job. People won't trust unproven students to work on anything close to a big budget game. Those couple of people I know who provide design services - they each have around 20 years of proven industry experience.
Setting up any business that you don't know anything about is a recipe for disaster, unless you have a big pile of cash and can afford to hire people who do have experience/knowledge.
2. If you knew anything about game design you would know that ideas aren't worth anything - it is the ability to implement them that is worth something. With no proven track record actually making games no company will hire your company to design their game.
3. Game design isn't an entry level job. People won't trust unproven students to work on anything close to a big budget game. Those couple of people I know who provide design services - they each have around 20 years of proven industry experience.
Setting up any business that you don't know anything about is a recipe for disaster, unless you have a big pile of cash and can afford to hire people who do have experience/knowledge.
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Some questions relevant to above:
- How many car manufacturing plants have decision makers located in the UK. They don't acknowledge the existence of anyone without 10+ year high-profile industry track record. All business contracts are made solely and exclusively from a tightly knit network.
- How many designers does car industry need (statistically, a person is more likely to be hit by lightning than to become a car designer)
- Car plants work on long pipelines, cars that coming into production today were designed years ago, then incrementally refined
- Car industry follows trends - if one company goes one direction, others need to follow and build on top of that, how will you follow these trends?
- Very few design prototypes get into production, so most of design work is done completely internally. There are select few independent designers, but in general the industry has instead started hire students directly, so the chance of making a name as independent is much smaller today.
Oh, replace 'car' with anything software related - it's exactly the same, to the dot.
Cash/experience/knowledge only go that far. The crucial factor is networking and luck. A good lead will pay itself several orders of magnitude more than all of knowledge and experience. The latter two can be bought. But leads cannot.
Quote:I have been thinking for a while about starting my own car design company, i don't have much knowledge about car design etc.
But, i have loads of ideas and was thinking about setting up a company run mainly by students out of university in the UK.
Some questions relevant to above:
- How many car manufacturing plants have decision makers located in the UK. They don't acknowledge the existence of anyone without 10+ year high-profile industry track record. All business contracts are made solely and exclusively from a tightly knit network.
- How many designers does car industry need (statistically, a person is more likely to be hit by lightning than to become a car designer)
- Car plants work on long pipelines, cars that coming into production today were designed years ago, then incrementally refined
- Car industry follows trends - if one company goes one direction, others need to follow and build on top of that, how will you follow these trends?
- Very few design prototypes get into production, so most of design work is done completely internally. There are select few independent designers, but in general the industry has instead started hire students directly, so the chance of making a name as independent is much smaller today.
Oh, replace 'car' with anything software related - it's exactly the same, to the dot.
Quote:unless you have a big pile of cash and can afford to hire people who do have experience/knowledge.
Cash/experience/knowledge only go that far. The crucial factor is networking and luck. A good lead will pay itself several orders of magnitude more than all of knowledge and experience. The latter two can be bought. But leads cannot.
I'm thinking about starting my own fashion company. I don't know anything about fashion.
I have a lot of ideas about clothes and I'm thinking the company could be run by attractive models.
Good idea?
I have a lot of ideas about clothes and I'm thinking the company could be run by attractive models.
Good idea?
Quote:Original post by ChurchSkiz
I'm thinking about starting my own fashion company. I don't know anything about fashion.
I have a lot of ideas about clothes and I'm thinking the company could be run by attractive models.
Good idea?
Well, a similar approach seems to have worked for Silvio Berlusconi.
Quote:Original post by AntheusThe latter two can be bought. But leads cannot.
Everything can be bought for the right price.
Quote:Original post by way2lazy2care
Everything can be bought for the right price.
That price is often not money.
How much would one need to pay Apple to open the platform?
Quote:Original post by way2lazy2careQuote:Original post by AntheusThe latter two can be bought. But leads cannot.
Everything can be bought for the right price.
Sure, if you don't mind getting done on bribery charges. Last time I checked (in the UK) it was illegal for companies to accept or make payments in order to get preferential treatment. I'll have to dig it out but I know it was something I looked into when I was reading about company law before I started my business.
Quote:Original post by Cromulent
Sure, if you don't mind getting done on bribery charges. Last time I checked (in the UK) it was illegal for companies to accept or make payments in order to get preferential treatment. I'll have to dig it out but I know it was something I looked into when I was reading about company law before I started my business.
That would make it illegal for Microsoft to buy exclusive rights to anything in the UK. I seriously doubt this is the case.
double edit: I think you are generalizing bribery to cover too large a set of situations.
Quote:How much would one need to pay Apple to open the platform?
200 billion dollars according to this source (edit: updated for newer more accurate source)
here
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