I have recently started my journey on game development, but I am having a difficult time coming up with game ideas. Can you please post some game ideas that are small and simple?
The best thing you could do for start is copy something you like or something you know, either by playing or by being popular.
A side-scroll runner, a flappy bird, a bommberman…those are games that can be atomized with ease and then improved or expanded.
Try some of the tutos in the Unity main site, the rollerball, the space shooter or the 2D roguelike start really plain and simple and have plenty of room for improvizing once you are done.
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I think the best source of such ideas is to look at old games, particularly arcade games, which were highly constrained by hardware capabilities of the time.
For example, my younger son and I are doing a project this quarter to create a 4-player co-op version of Konami’s Scramble. It’s quite a simple game, but one I really enjoyed as a youth, and adding local multiplayer doesn’t make it significantly harder.
So, go visit an arcade, or play around with MAME for a weekend, and I bet you’ll have plenty of ideas.
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Are there any useful tutorials to make these games?
If you’re still at the level of needing tutorials even to get started, then forget about thinking up your own game ideas; just do whatever the tutorials do.
There are a ton of great tutorials for Unity, both from Unity themselves and from third parties. Google is your friend. (If a somewhat creepy friend who keeps track of everything you do.)
Once you’ve spent a few weeks or months doing tutorials, then go to the arcade and see what inspires you. By that point you’ll know how to get started.
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Ok. Thanks
Build the Unity Tutorials games. They’re all step-by-step, and they provide all the artwork you need to make them. When you’ve done them all, you’ll be able to do almost anything you can think of in Unity, and you’ll be bursting with new ideas.
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Above: “Don’t be this me. Google a Unity Full-Game Tutorial today!”
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I looked at the tutorials, but I can’t find anything basic. I am more interested in 2D.
Did you check the 2d ones? They take you through how it all works
Also check this out on how to make a simple game look more exciting than it actually is
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nvm. I found a tutorial on Youtube, but thx.
Follow these tutorials: http://unity3d.com/learn/live-training
Most of them are in 3D, but those principles apply just as well to 2D games. It gives you a good insight into how a game is made up and what common techniques are used in Unity.
Some of the tutorials even provide you with small games, or parts of games that you could use to implement in your own game. Maybe just watching someone else mess around can give you some ideas for a game of your own.
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what about puzzles? like honeyday blitz 2 or candy crush. like a new version that is abit of RPG?
What about a drinking game
Really?
Waaaayyy ahead of you there.
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Let me guess - you popped in Kingdom Hearts and are taking a drink everytime someone says “Darkness?”
That’s sure to get you drunk in record time.
I am just a kid and new.
Have you tried the Game Design Zen podcast (link in sig)? You can listen to it while traveling.
Gigi
I came to learn, not listen to music
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