The 3 Steps to Inventing a prosperous Toy or Game

Ok, in this description l will cover how l invented a victorious puzzle, and how you can read between the lines to get your own victorious idea going.

So...let's begin.

Jigsaw Name Puzzles

• Step 1 - I came up with an idea for a stacking type puzzle, back then the stacking jigsaw black and white versions were big, so l opinion that a colour version would be a good idea. The idea flopped, but l learned that you need to bring in at least 3 good ideas to a toy firm to have a real shot at getting something accepted.

So steps 1 is come up with at least 3 good ideas (designs) and find a toy firm to show your ideas to. You can go to your nearest puzzle shop to find your nearest toy firm which could be interested in your idea. You can also try Googling it or the Yellow pages.

• Step 2 - I developed another 3 ideas in between doing 3 models for the stacking jigsaw l mentioned earlier, (the firm l showed it to wasn't interested, but they said that an overseas firm they knew about could be) and tried again.

Bombed again?

So far l had one maybe, and 3 failures. It's regularly at this point that most population would give up, but not me, so l continued. The message to take home from step 2 is don't give up, regardless of how many times you have failed or that your wife or house is beginning to doubt your sanity. Thomas Edison to name a few have been straight through this process and won. Toy and game inventing is no different, keep trying and success is inevitable.

• Step 3 - This time before l left l was shown an old puzzle book mainly showing 16 - 19 century puzzles.

So l went home with a few ideas and came up with another 4 quick sketches to show them. This time it looked like the same old failure. I showed them 3 ideas l got from their toy and puzzle book they let me look though while l was there last visit, with the usual not interested response.

But...

The 4th idea interested them. Initially they said that they weren't interested because the puzzle idea would need to be done using a plastic sheet, but then I mentioned that you could make this yourself with the same materials you use with your on-site equipment to make jigsaws with.

And then the lights went on.

They realized that they could found this on-site, and l had my first success. This took 7 failures to find this.

So the message to take home from step 3 is the more study you do, the greater your chances are of an early success.

It was likely that l wouldn't have had this success if l didn't look at their puzzle inventing books, since l have had a lot of failures since then. But l have also gotten very close to a few board games being appropriate without any study involved.

So find a local toy firm you can see, keep trying no matter what, try to study old toy and game products to get ideas from and success is only a matter of time!

The 3 Steps to Inventing a prosperous Toy or Game