--- title: Don't be afraid of IDEA THIEVES! | daily.dev description: Indie developers often fear that sharing their game ideas will lead to theft, but this fear is largely unfounded. An idea is just a starting point — every... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-be-afraid-of-idea-thieves--oiuxdoggx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Don't be afraid of IDEA THIEVES! | daily.dev og:description: Indie developers often fear that sharing their game ideas will lead to theft, but this fear is largely unfounded. An idea is just a starting point — every... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-be-afraid-of-idea-thieves--oiuxdoggx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oIuxdOgGX.png og:image:alt: Don't be afraid of IDEA THIEVES! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Don't be afraid of IDEA THIEVES! **[Code Monkey](https://daily.dev/sources/codemonkeyunity)** · 1 min read · 13 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary Indie developers often fear that sharing their game ideas will lead to theft, but this fear is largely unfounded. An idea is just a starting point — every decision made during development leads to a unique result, as evidenced by game jams where everyone starts from the same theme yet produces entirely different games. The real threat to indie devs is obscurity, not idea theft. With so many games releasing constantly, the bigger risk is that nobody will ever hear about your game. Developers should talk about their projects as much as possible to build awareness and generate interest before launch. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@gabrielgn** · 4 upvotes > Can't take seriously opinion of "gamedevs" that don't do it for life. That's just YT content. > > > "Idea theft" is real, and some developers (eg: Lucas Pope creator of Return to Obra Dinn and Papers Please) are not active sharing details of his current development. AI is accelerating the development, and no one wants their idea get fed into some slop that might hurt the original concept. **@bits\_and\_bytes** · 0 upvotes > i wont prefer sharing the idea of game. due to rapid evolution of tools in current era . **@niforos** · 0 upvotes > This sounds what IDEA thieves would make ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The games industry is stifled by a culture of fear](https://daily.dev/posts/the-games-industry-is-stifled-by-a-culture-of-fear-hjylqc8mm) · GamesIndustry.biz · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-be-afraid-of-idea-thieves--oiuxdoggx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Don't be afraid of IDEA THIEVES!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-be-afraid-of-idea-thieves--oiuxdoggx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-be-afraid-of-idea-thieves--oiuxdoggx"},"datePublished":"2026-07-09T14:03:17.384Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:17:44.850Z","description":"Indie developers often fear that sharing their game ideas will lead to theft, but this fear is largely unfounded. 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