Chapter 6
Conceptualization
Coming up with ideas is difficult for many people; coming up with excellent ideas is even more difficult. But coming up with an idea is just the beginning of the creative process. Crafting your ideas, fleshing them out, and bringing them to life are all part of the ongoing work of game design that in the end means generating not just one grand idea but rather layers and iterations of ideas that all help to refine and evolve your original concept. This process will be different for every game designer and for every game on which a designer works, beginning with different sources of inspiration and yielding a variety of results.
I cannot tell you exactly what your own personal process should be, but I can offer some ...
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