File 001: classified
Announcement pending
Form BID-001
Office of Questionable Decisions
Now accepting bad ideas
We publish games that shouldn’t work.
Fig. 1One (1) bad idea, actual size
Bad Idea Department is a game publishing label for the pitches that make sensible people nervous. We find them, stamp them approved, and get them out the door.
§ 01The mandate
Most of the industry exists to talk you out of it. The Department was set up to help you ship it. If an idea sounds wrong on paper, we’d like to see what it does on a screen.
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Art. 1
Wrong on paper
If the pitch makes a meeting room go quiet, we want to hear the rest of it. Sensible ideas already have plenty of homes.
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Art. 2
Right in the hands
The idea can be bad. The game can’t. We care about feel, polish, and the thirty seconds that make someone say “one more go.”
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Art. 3
Out the door
Store page, trailer, launch, forms in triplicate. We take the unglamorous parts so the strange part actually gets finished.
- Focus groups consulted
- 0
- Of ideas officially questioned
- 100%
- Lightbulb harmed (see Fig. 1)
- 1
§ 02Case files
Approved
for release
Every game the Department signs off on gets a folder. The cabinet is new, and the first folder is sealed.
This folder intentionally left blank.
§ 03Public service
Need a bad idea? Take one.
Free to the public, one per press. The Department accepts no liability for any prototypes that follow.
Ideas dispensed this visit 0001
Bad idea dispenser
A cozy farming sim where the crops have unionized.
Not an announcement. Probably.
Approved
§ 04Submissions
Got one of your own?
Working on a game that sounds like a mistake? Good. Fill in Form 27-B, or skip the paperwork and email us.
- Something we can play or watch today
- What makes it strange, in plain words
- Where it is now, and what you need
Direct line pitch@badideadepartment.com