Reddit reviews Designing Modern Strategy Games (Studies in Game Design Book 1)

Ok, but why should somebody work with you if you've barely done any work on your own idea? Like /u/Bastiaan-Squared mentioned, most people are more excited to work on their own ideas, which they are constantly prototyping, refining, reworking etc, than to help you sit down and decide what mechanisms might work well in whatever setting you think is cool. You're better off spending your own time hammering out some potential mechanisms you might find interesting then approaching somebody and refining what you've done.


Here are a couple books that might help you out:

• Kobold Guide to Board Game Design
  
  
• The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Second Edition
  
  
• Designing Modern Strategy Games (Studies in Game Design Book 1)