Million Dollar Idea: Speech Outline

Outline For Speech

 

• Introduction

• Dream of building a fund for indie game developers.

• Always been a gamer myself.

• Innovation of Indie games.

• Current games

• Current games dilemma.

• Many sequels.

• Little variety in genres.

• Why the disparity in creativity between indie games and AAA games?

• Publishers

• Definition of Indie Games:

• A game created by an individual or small group without the support of a publisher.

• Definition of Publisher:

• Funds projects of big developers and publish them.

• Roles of a Publisher:

• manufacturing, licensing, marketing, and advertising.

• Problems with Publishers:

• Takes enormous amounts of the profits from the games.

• Takes control of the intellectual property of their games rather than the studios who came up with them.
• Can assign whatever game to developing studios working for them: Imagine being assigned: Barbie and the Diamond Castle.

• The Indie Fund.

• Give Indie developers the benefits of a publisher without the restrictions.

• Fund projects, provide resources, and advertise.

• Developers need not fear losing their intellectual property.

• Unless they should fail to complete their project in which case the project might be given to a different studio to protect the fund’s investments.

• Profits from the game will be split 50/50

• The developers put all the work and love into the game.

• The fund provided all the financial risk.

• Requirements of the fund.

• Indie Studios must apply to the fund.

• Must have unique and creative ideas.

• Must be a studio dedicated to their work and set on making this game.

• Must supply a demo of the game or a past project to get a feel for what the studio is capable of.
• Conclusion.
• Fund will help struggling indie developers.
• Hopefully lead to a surge of new games pushing the creative envelope.
• Lead publishers and big development studios to take risks, even if only small ones.
• Quote from Tim Schafer well known for his games like Psychonauts and the Monkey Island Series, “What game is worth doing that’s not creatively risky?”