Designing games with someone else

Like any creative work, authorship is very important. Even in a big team it's important to have someone serve as the head.

This is something that always bothers me about games! people go out of their way to take their names off the game and put a dumb company name there. Even when it's one person, you'll see "teethless dog games" instead of someone's name. I mean, did you go to the movies to watch Warned Brothers Batman? No, you watched Christopher Nolan's Batman, right? Not only from a creation perspective it's good to have a head, but for the custommer it's also better. It gives people someone to praise and follow if they like the work or dismiss and avoid if they don't. I know that I like Nolan's movies, so I can watch them even if he directs for other film maker, but I can't trust the next Batman game will be as good as the previous one, even if they are all made by Rocksteady, because I have no idea if the people behind that name are the same.

Heh. Sorry, this topic always gets me talking.

My suggestion to you is something I always wanted to do myself. Get in a partnership and cycle between projects and authorship. For example, pitch each other projects and the most feasible and that pleases the other more gets done first. The author of the idea gets to have final word on design choices. Since everyone wants their own games made too, it also ensures no overly complicated project gets approved by the other party as a bonus. The sooner you're done, the sooner the team can jump to the next project.