As we said, ideas can come from many different sources, so let's try to recap them in a practical list of activities that can help you come up with interesting concepts for future new games:
- Play tons of video games, especially ones outside your favorite genres
- Watch movies, TV, and theatre, and read books
- Travel
- Think how to turn your interests outside gaming into a game (bricolage, wine, fitness, art, music, traveling, and so on)
- Analyze the market and think about unique games that are not quite there
- Ask other people what they'd like to play that is not quite there
- Deconstruct your favorite games, focusing on what would make them better
- Go to game jams where you'll have a very restricted amount of time to create a ...
