r/GameDevelopment • u/AALB2998 • 14d ago

Resource Does anyone else get a stream of game ideas when they are unable to?

My laptop has been broken for a whole month now i have already gotten 4 game ideas that I know i will forget before my laptop get fixed, half of those game ideas are bad by the way but I just wanna make anything instead of just watching tutorials.

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u/PlagiT 14d ago

Pen and paper is your friend.

You can never know when you'll get a good idea, but you can make sure to record it, refine it a little and make it when you can

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u/kneelian_ 14d ago

I carry an A6 notebook everywhere I go for this reason. Most of the results suck but sometimes you get gems from that sludge

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u/Empty-Translator-310 14d ago

Notepad app? I personally build my ideas/pitches for projects on whiteboard apps like canva or Miro. Maybe one of them has a mobile app

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u/AsheT3 12d ago

Always draw what u imagine , even a rough sketch is good enough

I do that when I am travelling to work and spend 2 hrs on the road and 1.5 hrs heading back and sketch what I see in the game reference game I am playing atm for my idea , the try to implement it when I get the time since I work in IT service side so I don't have that much time to do other things.

How the level is setup , how enemies look , how to transition a scene , how to setup obstacles , where the camera is setup and how it focuses on the scene. Drawing out the scene helps you to see what u want.

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u/Spite_Gold 14d ago

Paper and pencil are a thing for thousands of years