Should I build a game for a bigger company that is already successful, with many sources that can help produce the game? Or should I kick start the game and get funds to make the game and hope I can be successful on my own?

First option. Saves a lot of time with game development, advertising will be funded by the company, risk of rejection but if accepted, I will gain a small portion of the revenue.

Second option. Takes a lot of hard work to organize a good team, hope kickstarter provides the funds or its a lot of free time until published, a huge portion of revenue goes to myself.

Now, the way I see it, maybe both are good options and it comes down to less time for less money and getting over the fear of rejection or a lot more time and a lot more money with fear of advertising not being enough to get the game going.

What would you do? Build a game for a successful company already that will add to their business? Or make the game on your own, using your own art and your own sources?

Does anyone have experience with option 1 or option 2? I think I will try option 1 and if it fails go to option 2 cause option 1, if accepted is a lot less money but if it does really well, a lot less money can still be $100k or more for the game.

Please don't ask for specifics for my game. I'm not interested in sending my idea off because I can't win the race if I compete against someone with an already organized team and I have already put in a good amount of time into the project myself. I can manipulate the project to be for another company if I want to and hope they like it so I can work for them and be successful.

Ok, good response. I'm actually not offended from the response like I usually get from this site.

Well, my information isn't specific enough... maybe Ill have to give a good example.

Ok, here is an example. Blizzard is a huge successful company. They already have popular games. So I build a game using their popular game they already have, lets say diablo. I want to call my game diablo 4. I want to through at them a huge pitch on all the ideas i have for diablo 4, i want to help build the diablo 4 version.

Is this example good enough? Or do I need to go more in depth?

You said that they are looking to use "my team". thats the biggest reason i go to them is to get a team. maybe thats not how they work, but if the idea is presented very well, not just the ideas, but the art work is accomplished, with a full out playable design in front of them, all that needs to be done is to transfer it to be a program, is this logically reasonable? Or is it just better off to go do my own thing? Does this help?

Should I build a game for a bigger company that is already successful...

This translates to "should I get a job?"

If you have no experience in a game studio, starting your own studio is statistically destined to fail. There are a handful of exception, but you're looking at the scale of one-in-a-million odds. It's a lottery that you're (almost certainly) going to lose. Your odds really are better at government-run lotteries. If your intention is to run a game development studio you should work in the industry first.

First option. ... {publisher funds idea and pays percent of revenue}

Second option. ... {kickstarter}

The first option only works if you have some startup money and a team of experienced developers. Among the first questions asked when businesses explore those deals is the list of key people on the project and their work history. If there aren't enough people with enough industry experience the bigger companies will move on to the next group.

The second option falls back in the lottery category.

You have more options, such as:

* get a job at a game studio and after several years pitching the game with the hope of making the game from the inside
* get a job at a game studio and after a few years leave with some like-minded co-workers to follow one of those options
* get rich some other way and hire experienced game developers

You might find this video enlightening, along with many others they have created as they are focused on game design. That specific video talks on the role of game designer, which isn't what many people think of.

Finishing it up, Game Designer is not a beginner role. Usually it is a fairly senior role needing a decade or so of industry experience. There are design jobs that are early-career and mid-career like level designer and character designer, but the job title of Game Designer is a senior level role. The person with the Game Designer business card is in charge of millions of dollars or tens of millions of dollars of work.

Wasn't there a plan once to stop answering these sorts of questions in the hope that people would stop asking them...