Game Development Organizations for an Innovative Game?

The mobile gaming industry is one of the most crowded spaces in tech. Very few companies would invest in ideas, we are at a point in tech investments that very few firms would invest in seed stage funding, and most of those would want to bring you and your team to work on the app with them, under their supervision and with their facilities.

My advice is to build the game first, launch it and see peoples reaction to the game. Because it's very hard for any large organization to invest in an idea on paper. When you launch the game you have data and analytics to support your idea, without that you would look a bit out of your depth and seem like someone who doesn't understand the industry.

For the next steps, I would start with the team, you should definitely build a proof of concept first, or a minimum viable product "MVP" to go do user tests with. After that you need to figure out how are you going to monetize the game. As in how is you business model going to make money? is it through in game purchases, advertising or any other form of income you can think of. And then you need to focus on analytics to see how people interact with the game, how many users download it everyday? How many play it everyday? How many times a day? and for how long? And then you have to figure out your average user life span, as in how long it takes a user to get bored of the game and stop playing it, or even uninstall it. This in subscription based business models is called Churn Rate.

The main purpose of all of this to determine how well your app retains it's users. The numbers your investors or advertisers would like to know are you ARPDAU -Average Revenue Per Daily Active User-, LTV Life time value for each user and the churn rate.

Mobile games are tough, but if you have a good idea, people will eat it up.

Hope this helps, good luck. Ali

Okay, first, I am going to assume you are not a developer. And for this reason you have no idea how big of a project something like this would be. Second I am going to assume you have no business or enterprise building experience. And for this I will give you only business advice.

Your pitch isn't something a big organization would take seriously. Mainly because to me it seems like you are making a mountain of a grain of sand. As big of a fan as you might be of cricket, it is no where even close to being the second most popular sport in the world.

And it seems like you are trying to actually change the original game and then make a digital version of it. That to me is like casting a net and then trying to find fish to go to it.

I don't want to discuss or take away from the idea. But if you ever say things to a game studio like you posted here you wouldn't be taken seriously.

There are so many cricket fantasy leagues and all of them combined don't amount to half the basketball or football fantasy revenue in two companies in the US or like bid8 in Europe.

Big organizations would be too worried about sharing the ownership of intellectual property so essential to the game with anyone outside the studio.

And taking a risk on a variation of a current sport that hasn't even launched or gathered any type of audience around it seems very unlikely.

Though I can say this, unless someone very senior in a game studio is on treehouse, your chances of getting a connection here are very small.

Trust me, build it, prove it, and they will come to you. If you chase them, especially that you need them more than they need you, you might get cut out of your own idea. Be realistic and set realistic expectations for you and your investors. Don't be too optimistic. Especially in this space.

Good luck

The company encourages it's own employees to come up with ideas. They don't encourage the public to contact them with ideas.

And again in terms of revenue, cricket is not even in the top 5. And I have the data to prove that. That's why I am worried about you. The ICC made about $2.5 billion in 2015, that's the equivalent of Real Madrid and Barcelona only in spain combined revenue, and even less than their current value individually. That's the whole international cup. Sports here aren't about fans, it's about money, and cricket barely has enough to keep it going, that the icc had to change their business model a couple of years ago to stay in business.

Yes there are many fans, it could be the second largest in the world in terms of the audience. But even countries like Australia and the UK don't make money from cricket, it is no where even close to even horse racing in terms of revenues. Not a market I would get involved in. A lot of competition for very little reward.

Again, you're too optimistic. This might collapse on your head and you won't even see it coming.

I am not from treehouse, just like you, I am another member. You came here asking for advice, and I wanted to bring you back to earth as you have been sky high and I am afraid that you'll be shocked by the current state of the industry. I am not trying to talk you out of it. But obviously you lack relevant experience, and you need to see things the way they are, not the way you want them to be. And when comparing 797 million to 95 million, the 95 seems like pocket change, and those are revenues not net profits, keep that in mind.

We can disagree about the idea, but the facts are that revenue is what drives success in this field. And no the sport isn't valued by it's viewership, unless you're a cable or broadcasting company, the number of people that follow the sport isn't a large determining factor. The engagement and customer lifetime value is what matters.

Anyway, treehouse doesn't develop games. It's an education platform, not a startup accelerator. That's who you should be in touch with.

good luck