Article on Game Idea pitching

[Anonymous]

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050519/diamante_01.shtml

> Making the actual pitch, of course, is quite different from putting together
> the pitch. Other than practice, sometimes the only thing to do is to find the
> right guy to deliver it. “If you don’t know anybody that’s good at it,” said
> Pitchford, “Hire a street performer. They’re good at it.”

Anyone know any good mimers or jugglers? :)

Mal

[Anonymous]

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050519/diamante_01.shtml

> Making the actual pitch, of course, is quite different from putting together
> the pitch. Other than practice, sometimes the only thing to do is to find the
> right guy to deliver it. “If you don’t know anybody that’s good at it,” said
> Pitchford, “Hire a street performer. They’re good at it.”

Anyone know any good mimers or jugglers? :)
[/quote:8dd8d75c4c]apart from you, mal? ;)

[Anonymous]

My juggling career ended when the cops found that I was running the chainsaws on red deisel :)

I was involved with a few commercial pitches for console games, one bit of advice I would give is that you’ll need one person to give the overall pitch, but have a technical / business guy there as well ( ie if the business guy is giving the pitch, have a technical guy there for Q&A afterwards, and vice-versa ).

When pitching to a number of publishers, it was never a 1 on 1, it was always 2 ( sometimes 3 ) people from the publisher that attended them. One of these might be creative / technical, but nowadays, one will definitely be business / accounting orientated and will want to know more about the company / team background and financials than the actual game.

Mal

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

My juggling career ended when the cops found that I was running the chainsaws on red deisel[/quote:264bbf9522]

LOL ya funny hoffster ya

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