How to Be Creative

[soniCron]

This really should have been titled "How to Follow Your Passion." It's an excellent article over at gapingvoid about developing yourself so that you can persue your creative passions. I don't agree with everything he says, and he's a little...well, mad at "the man," but it's a solid piece of work and well worth the read.

gapingvoid: how to be creative

[Anthony Flack]

Oh, it goes in-depth? Well, I might or might not read all that, but I agree with the list anyway. It's a good, wise list.

[GBGames]

Heh, awhile back I printed it out to read later only to discover that the images hadn't all loaded. B-( Definitely a great read, though.

My favorite: 6. Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.

It goes along with my belief that it isn't that some people have talent and others don't. "I can't draw" was one of the most annoying things I have ever heard. I had difficulty ignoring the urge to grab the person, throw them in front of a piece of paper and pencil, and yell, "LEARN, MAGGOT!"

...this is a post that is going to stick around on the Internet for years, huh? No political aspirations for me then. B-)

[mahlzeit]

6. Everyone is born creative

Too bad that lots of people are born more destructive than creative. ;)

[Andy]

Pardon guys! I just can't resist to not make a quotation. :D

"Their (publishers) business model is to basically throw the pasta against the wall, and see which one sticks. The ones that fall to the floor are just forgotten."

REM: Nice catch Daniel! Now back to work. Back to work. ;)

[Ratboy]

It goes along with my belief that it isn't that some people have talent and others don't. "I can't draw" was one of the most annoying things I have ever heard. I had difficulty ignoring the urge to grab the person, throw them in front of a piece of paper and pencil, and yell, "LEARN, MAGGOT!"

Hey! I count on those people for a living!

(snort)

[Raptisoft]

You guys forget that creativity is a serious liability. I've been sitting here four hours tweaking the way a word "bonus" appears on the screen. Four f'ing hours. That's what creativity got me today. Four f'ing hours and an f'ing headache, and meanwhile I'm suicidal because somehow all the merits of my current game have fled and focused down into one small point of contention-- this bonus animation. Without the perfect animation, the game is garbage. I think I'll go cut off my ear.

Who the hell wants to be creative? It's not like it gets you girls when you dress in black with a little beret and talk about how you're really a vampire.

[papillon]

It's not like it gets you girls when you dress in black with a little beret and talk about how you're really a vampire.

Visit more LARPs.

[Jack Norton]

Without the perfect animation, the game is garbage. I think I'll go cut off my ear.
Who the hell wants to be creative?

That's what you get when you make casual games, I agree. You have to make everything perfect.
Luckily for other kind of games I don't have to worry too much about that. For example while making a game like UBM, I have to know the rules of boxing well, but if I want the commentator to be a big fat ugly boy I can do this and I won't lose sales for that ;)

p.s. on the other hand probably your games sells 10x mine so don't complain too much

[dmikesell]

Anyone else stop reading after this?

"1. Ignore everybody."

[Jeroen Stout]

Anyone else stop reading after this?

"1. Ignore everybody."

If you'd listen to that you wouldn't be ignoring everybody, so whether you read on or not, you're listening to him there.

[dmikesell]

If you'd listen to that you wouldn't be ignoring everybody, so whether you read on or not, you're listening to him there.

Damn. Good point. What should I do next? Anyone?

*paralyzed*