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¿Question #1859?
isolated: Have you ever spent time and effort to design your perfect game, just to discover that it already existed?

Fribian: No.
Phil Fleischmann: No.
Woelf: I took an existing game that hadn't been published yet, then spent time and effort to develop it into my [near] perfect game.
oldhoss: Stupid checkers.
Jatoha: HA HA!
djwyattwood: Nope.
whac3: no
cgund: no
Polgara: no
Ludocrazy: no
Pepsi4Me2: Yes
ZeroZilla: I've seen a number of 'my' ideas on the shelves... That's not to say that my "perfect game" was already created by somebody. I think that that perfect game would blend quite a few of the concepts found in other games. That's one of the joys of gaming, actually, seeing new mechanics, and etc., that you think 'Wow. That was neat. My perfect game would have something like THAT in it, too."
sffh: none of mine was found in archives up to the day
foxxdye: yeah, I designed this incredible game involving black stones and white stones called STOP! But, Ce La Vie.
quantumplation: No. My perfect game is perfect, and thus cannot exist.
DHEK: Nope. I've not even tried designing a game.
Butterbane: No no -- always original!
aleo09: no
JimmyJingle: Yes and No.
ZiggyZambo: no
rawdawg: not yet
jjloc: no
bigbadsteve: i havent gone so far to design, but i have thought of ideas, only to realize they have already been used
dmomo: Yep.
Cromaa: No
Nekura: That's what the Search box on the left is for
Chris Page: Not yet.
gr8lookinguy: no, i am not, what's it called, ummmm.......creative
Platinum Dragon: Heh, no fortunately.
POvidiusNaso: Nope.
Whirlinghurly: yes
LemonyFresh: YES. Freaking Knizia.
_Kael_: Yes. Call it 'any wargame'
Tushratta: Yes. That happened to me with PanzerBlitz.
arkibet: nope.
brainrob: No - but some ideas and mechanisms have been used
javelin98: Yep.
gamesbook: Yes.
LesterKlew: Yes, Monopoly.
GI Joe: No
Gecko23: Nope.
BaSL: no
Null Signature: no but ive made a bunch of quick ones
Thedalek: Almost. Had a civilization development card game, which used individual decks for each of 6 nations. It looked too similar to the Settlers of Catan card game to the publisher for whom we demonstrated it, when in fact, it probably had more in common with Magic: The Gathering and Diplomacy.
sourwyrm: no
ValJor: No
CharlieWonka: Not got the time to.
The Unbeliever: 42
Lord_Prussian: Nope
Scott Tepper: nope
skrutsch: Nope.
darthcliff: Yes
AWildEep: no... but my games suck
mandj2001: No. I can see how that would suck.
Belash: no
melissa: No
2amp: no
Toxidyne: Yes, a number of times. I guess games are just in the zietgeist.
Jern: No
snoozefest: no
nexttothemoon: No
toulouse: no
erli: Happens all the time, babe
Reloaded: I have an idea kicking around but I'll check it out before I commit time to it...
heli: n
Wintergoblin: no
gnomehome: No
CDRodeffer: No
djlg: No.
ptper: nope, still working on the design
CortexBomb: Nope, don't design games
chaddyboy_2000: No.
skelebone: Sure not -- I haven't even designed a game to completion.
jttm: Yes
Spielfreak: not yet
Blackwind: uh..no