According to a recent Globe and Mail article, a new online publishing site, TheGameCrafter.com, is pitching itself as a a new platform for innovative game creation. The site is providing all the tools developers would need to come up with games: planning, designing and packaging potential ideas. This is one of the few game creation sites that choose to focus on tangible games, not video games. This means card games and board games are the focus, not first-person shooters and real-time strategy titles.
TheGameCrafter will provide raw materials to turn these ideas into real products to be sold on their site. This is huge news for those looking into game creation. It gives people a cheap startup ability to anyone who has a “good idea” but is too afraid to pitch their ideas to big game companies and also allows them to make money and a name for themselves while testing out consumer reaction to their ideas with few and little costs.
The Game Crafter even provides templates and conceptual mockups to help stimulate interest and innovation on their site.
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