Building a Game Pitch: How to Bottle Lightning [Hardcover]

1 Introduction

2 Conceptualisation

3 Validation

4 Articulation

Based on the PocketGamer MasterClass Building a Pitch: From Concept to Document (2021), a decades worth of industry experience and numerous industry-level pitches for a variety of organisations, including Mediatonic, Epic Games and GDC, this book will equip you with methodologies, best practices and insights around video game pitch design. It will guide you through a step-by-step process from initial conceptualisation and idea validation to communicating your pitches on paper clearly and effectively as well as illustrating why such a process can be highly valuable.

In a day and age where video game development is more competitive than ever, the value and importance of lightning in a bottle pitches has never been higher: foundational visions capable of delivering video games that stand apart from the crowd as industry-renowned titles, generating immense critical or commercial success which (after the awe has abated) usually triggers the same internal question  why didnt I think of that!? As such, this book will cover:

• How video game pitches can determine the success potential of a video game
• How to conceptualise unique and compelling ideas for a video game
• How to validate your ideas to better determine whether they are capable of becoming lightning in a bottle experiences or even worth prototyping
• How to structure, format and write a video game pitch in a manner that not only helps you better expand upon and understand your own pitch but also makes it easier for others to understand and buy into

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