Game Pitches

[...] the site which were used to pitch what became successful titles. One of the more recent examples is the original pitch document for Bioshock, but the website also contains useful design documents about older, classic games such as Fallout [...]

it’s a good thing they did this, it helps designers and people learning Game Design how to come up with different pitches.

Please update the part 2 from the Irrational´s vault.

I think the top description should be changed. Bioshock has nothing inside it that System Shock 2 (made by almost the same people over ten years previous) already did. Even down to EXACTLY the same things being able to be hacked, plasmids are psyonics, adam is cyborg points, you see ghosts at lots of turns aswell as being able to find recordings of the crew everywhere. No, bioshock is far from unique when the desighners simply went “I KNOW! we’ll do what everyone is doing atm! take cyberpunk, and turn it into steam punk! yeah that works!”.And if people argue, then im sorry then i have 1 bigger example than those. In bioshock you are working under ATLAS, who later turns out to be the badguy, FONTAINE. System Shock 2, you are working for PALTO, who turns out to be the atagonist from the first game, SHODAN. Not good enough? The character you play has no memory of who he is or why he is there, being guided only by SHODAN barking orders just like fontaine….Its a shame that so many people have forgotten system shock 2, yet rant and rave over bioshock being so UNQIUE AND AMAZING. Its what most people do nowadays, its CYBERPUNK, converted to STEAMPUNK.Do not however get me wrong, i did enjoy bioshock and thought it was a very fun game to play, but it annoys me how old games and the like get forgotten so easily, then a BRAND NEW SHINEY THING comes out that is pretty much the same game but somehow, UNIQUIE, and ABLE TODO THINGS NEVER DONE NOR SEEN BEFORE!

Crash, that description is a direct copy-paste from their own product description, the same as every other doc on the site. I’m not editorializing.

[...] ist es, zu schauen was mal angedacht war, und wieviel davon letztlich im Spiel gelandet ist. Für Bioshock war es zum Beispiel geplant, den Spieler auf unterschiedlichste Art und Weise mit der Umgebung [...]

[...] ist es, zu schauen was mal angedacht war, und wieviel davon letztlich im Spiel gelandet ist. Für Bioshock war es zum Beispiel geplant, den Spieler auf unterschiedlichste Art und Weise mit der Umgebung [...]