User blog comment:Gamma Venom 567/Do you want a Hellsing Video game?/@comment-3463132-20141222212530

Trust me, coming up with ideas for video games has never been the hard part.

Take any 5 people and ask them to come up with a game idea. They will make one, and it likely would not be a bad idea either. Implementing the idea is everything when it comes to making video games.

But before even that, for proffesional companies anyways- you need to know you'll get a profit. That really is the bottom line- "will this sell?" Even that isn't the entirety of it- you also have to be able to justify that future profit against how long it will tie up your money, your workers, your servers- your company! You need to pit possibilities against the profit line and hope your idea rings solid enough to get the company to agree.

Now, most of that isn't an issue of Indie developers, that's almost purely just needing experience, equipment, and time. Oh, and the owners of said product not taking you down- always a possibility, no matter how unpleasant.