Hey everyone,

Something I've been curious about on the more business end of things is how you would go about making individual ideas and features for games feel or seem unique for potential employers to make them more likely to hire you or use your idea? For example, I'm dabbling in AI for the first time and one of my first ideas was an AI character that learns and grows with the player as they play. I realized that this was very similar to the “Amiibo Fighters” from the Super Smash Brothers series and other games with AI characters. So in a hypothetical situation where I was trying to pitch this idea to a potential employer what should I do to set it apart? Or would it be better to embrace the similarities and try to show how improved my version is?

Going further: companies don't hire workers for the worker's ideas. The company isn't going to make your ideas, they are hiring you to make their ideas. Your ideas really don't figure in to the equation.

On your other question

Renzu said:
I'm dabbling in AI for the first time and one of my first ideas was an AI character that learns and grows with the player as they play. I realized that this was very similar to the “Amiibo Fighters” from the Super Smash Brothers series and other games with AI characters.

It's actually been an idea in games since the 1980s. It's been implemented in various forms many, many, many times. It only sounds like fun while you have no idea what machine learning actually does. Once you understand what machine learning actually does, you'll understand why it is a terrible idea to make fun games. AI cannot train against ‘fun’.

One of the first requirements for designers is to study the past so they learn from failures and from successes.