Episode #95: Tips For Finding The Great Toy Or Game Concepts Within You with Christian Castro
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Do you have an idea for a game? Well, you’re in luck because to close out Hispanic Heritage Month, The Toy Coach sits down with Christian Castro, the Design Director of What Do You Meme? to talk about what makes a great game idea…GREAT! Together Azhelle and Christian compare parlor games and commercial games in an effort to identify the key characteristics of classic party, family, and kids’ games. From today’s episode you’ll learn the right and wrong way to use theming in your toy ideas, so that you’re truly innovating and not just masking an existing play pattern with a trendy theme.
If you absolutely love the insights into the toy industry you get from this podcast, but you never thought that YOU could come up with a toy or game idea, then you need to press play right now. We touch on how classic games like Candyland and brands like Spongebob weren’t invented by toy industry pro’s, they were created by everyday people outside of our incredible industry.