Game Publishing for Kids

So you want to get rich, because your idea is better ;)

Your Idea

Make sure it is your idea. You can proove this best by making it yourself, out of your own head, in your own bed. Inspiration is ok, ideas can not be patented but their unique presentation may well be.

What this means is, whatever you create with your own hands is protected with your copyright automatically. Meaning you get to decide what to do with it, whom to share it with and how, at what price or just give it to your friends for free. For example, if you make your own game character out of painted clay, you even get to decide who can make pictures of it.

What this doesn’t mean is to make a copy of something and then say the original is yours. The copy is yours, you made it, but it’s still a copy.

To test the originality of your idea, if your friends say “wow how cool i wish i had thought of that” that is a good indicator of a fresh idea. If they say (and you think the same in private) “oh, this really reminds me of BLABLABLA” or “oh, isn’t this BLABLABLA” you might be in trouble. Usually things fall in the middle, some say “oh this reminds me of BLABLA but i like the blue hair better” while others go “wow, BLABLA is so lame you really took it to another level”, which is the point. Ideas spawn ideas, the more the better. Think of how memes work and you know what i mean.