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PrismSlime wrote:the difference there is the game won't just play itself. you can hardly compare a clicker game to a farming game.

Nick wrote:I don't recall how it came together, but usually game ideas come into my brain fairly whole, as in they're not built upon over time (though the design from there definitely is, still in my head though). So it's quite likely that much of what the game is now was more or less a single thought at some point.

When I was gearing up to leave Sega and start my own thing I started coming up with a bunch of games that I'd want to make. As unromantic as it sounds, I created a spreadsheet where each one was listed and their various complexities, then ranked them by overall difficulty vs some other positive qualities. Slime Rancher was the clear winner for how I would soon find myself (working solo). I then built a very simple prototype to prove it was fun.

But there's other, less clinical factors too: I've always liked slimes ever since DQ, the idea seemed original to me, it was a game genre I've never made before and I liked the challenge, etc.