Ideation is grouped together with pitching and marketing because the latter two depend on selecting a marketable idea to begin with.

Under every category below, I try to have a rough “most relevant first” sorting.

Table of contents:

My lectures

Lecture slides from Fall 2025 Game Project class:

Ideation and pitching:

Pitching_and_ideation_2025.pdf

Trailers and marketing:

Trailers_2025.pdf

Ideation

Steam Review Guesser: Practice recognizing game ideas with success potential

November 18, 2025

To allow one to create and pick game ideas with success potential, it’s essential to learn to recognize the good ones and predict their sales. This game lets you practice just that:

https://youtu.be/Tu2cCEMwvHI?si=NaRjwcT-v37BqN2E

The game shows you random Steam pages and asks you to guess the number of reviews for the game (which provides a rough estimate of copies sold when multiplied by 30).