Business Ideas of Interest

Business Ideas of Interest

          My first business idea is quite simple, I want to create a good quality free to play game for phones and tablets that would generate revenue though advertisements or a $1 game. I notice a disturbing trend in free to play casual touch screen games where the game developer will try to squeeze money out of the customer any chance they get. Most of these games even require you to pay money or wait a certain amount of time to continue to play the game when you lose. Another issue is the quality of these games, especially on windows phone. Almost none of the games offered are worth playing, even $1 games (unless you are still entertained by angry birds). I believe there is a market on tablet and phone for more than just rip off and low quality games for casual gamers. My idea is to create a set of episodic RPG games based around player decisions that affect the game story, like many popular handheld Nintendo games. Each game would build off of the decisions the player made in the previous games and the theme would be sci-fi or crime drama.

         My next idea is to create a website that would host high budget videos (like tv shows). I feel that television will become obsolete in the near future because of the greed of the cable companies making you buy 500 channels to get the one you want. There is no reason why you couldn't create a cheaper alternative and still have high budget entertainment through a subscriber system. It would operate much like Youtube but with a few major differences. Most importantly, the channel would have a much greater say over the monetization of their videos. For instance, a channel could choose to charge $5 per month to subscribe and watch their videos and take home $4 of that. This is important because it will finally make it possible for big budget shows (like walking dead, breaking bad, game of thrones...) to thrive on the internet and it would only be a small fraction of the cost of cable. Instead of paying $300 to Comcast for the 6 channels I watch, eventually I could just subscribe to 6 shows of the same quality online for $30.