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silver4donuts
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CloseWe could always do what my bro does...
smoke some weed everyday!
He usually comes up with his best ideas after his...um...session! He also seems to play WAY better when we play Mario Kart. I told him to change his name from Sean to Weedman88. But he declined. :)
smoke some weed everyday!
He usually comes up with his best ideas after his...um...session! He also seems to play WAY better when we play Mario Kart. I told him to change his name from Sean to Weedman88. But he declined. :)
author=Max McGee link=topic=1871.msg31113#msg31113 date=1221244397
Anyway, I would suggest applying the same philosophy to game design. Themes are over rated. I didn't even notice that zodiac shit in FFXII, just an incomprehensible story and too much fucking levelgrinding for me to get past the halfway point.
I'd be hesitant to even call the zodiac thing a theme. Its more like a motif, really, though perhaps not a very meaningful one. Just stylistic.
Themes are fairly relevant, but only so far as the main idea is concerned. In my opinion, you are better off coming up with a cool idea and working from that, though. Themes can become more pronounced later with a little editing.
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author=silver4donuts link=topic=1871.msg31148#msg31148 date=1221254697
We could always do what my bro does...
smoke some weed everyday!
Nah, i think i'll stick with Kentona's idea. Drink beer and get wasted is all the inspiration i need. :)
author=Darken link=topic=1871.msg31130#msg31130 date=1221247074
Gotta agree with Max McGee here. Themes are bound to show up as long as theres characters and a conflict.
Also Feld, are you talking about both story inspiration and gameplay? Or just story?
The entire game as a whole.
author=silver4donuts link=topic=1871.msg31148#msg31148 date=1221254697
We could always do what my bro does...
smoke some weed everyday!
He usually comes up with his best ideas after his...um...session! He also seems to play WAY better when we play Mario Kart. I told him to change his name from Sean to Weedman88. But he declined. :)
Getting high is one of the best ways, if not the best way to come up with a random new thing. ;)
For some reason I find that I get a lot of original ideas when I'm half awake in the morning, like when I'm still laying in the bed and can't decide whether to get up or fall back asleep then forget I'm awake at all. One day I when I woke up, for some reason I saw like myself booting up as a computer, then when it was done loading I realized I was awake and got up, weird.
One problem with creativity and trying to come up with original ideas though, is that its nearly all been done before. The trick seems to be to make all the little details as unique as possible, and do things that haven't been done all that many times before, never been done very well, or merge different themes and such to create a unique hybrid.
Honestly, I find I work a little more and enjoy working a lot more when people are paying attention to/discussing my video game/writing/PnP RPG/whatever I am working on at the time. I dunno, maybe that makes me an "attention whore" but that's historically always been what motivates me.
EDIT: I don't even know if I'm "on topic" any more, this topic got pretty weird.
EDIT: I don't even know if I'm "on topic" any more, this topic got pretty weird.
