Game Design Theory Creativity 101 Paul Taylor 2010
Jan 03, 2016
Unlocking your creativity and locking it in your cage
Based on Chapter 6 of The Art of Game Design
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Why?
• Becoming a designer will require you to use your creativity on demand.
• It is easy to dream, but far more difficult to create something on demand
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Inspiration• Your Ideas are driven from the
experiences you have had over your life
• When you are trying to generate good ideas, it is important to know the problem
• Having found the problem do not jump to the first solution, this is the creative bit...
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Going slightly schizophrenic
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To understand your creativity you will need to separate yourself from it a little, and learn to negotiate with it.
To this end we :consider your subconscious to be a different
personNow to meet your subconscious....
He/She is:
• Mute– only talks through imagery and emotions
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• Emotional
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Playful
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Irrational
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Living with your Subconscious in a professional way
In the same way you manage any of your relationships, you must treat your
subconscious well to work together.
Pay Attention!
• To gain any good ideas from your friend you must listen!
• How?You must pay attention to what your subconscious
offers– thoughts– Ideas, suggestions– Feelings– Emotions– Dreams
Remember the Ideas
• Remember it can be really difficult to get your subconscious to refresh you on an idea it once had
• Writing everything down is a great way to keep your ideas
• You do this when brainstorming in a team, so really you are just doing it more often.– Pictures, notes, dot points, however you
remember best
Look after your subconscious’ appetite
• To be creative it needs to have things to eat– Playing different games– Watching Movies– Going somewhere new– Doing a new activity– Reading an interesting book
These are just some of the ways you can feed your subconscious
Watch out for Junk Food
• Your subconscious will eat whatever you give it
These are some of the Junk foods you need to keep away from your subconscious!
• Dealing with school• You Being Hungry• Being Tired• Outside Pressures
Your subconscious is nocturnal
• When you sleep well, your subconscious is awake.– Whilst you think during the day, your subconscious
does all its great work when you are asleep
Don’t push your friendship!
• Ever had a friend that just wont shut up or leave you alone. The one that just keeps talking?
• Don’t be this person to your subconscious . If you don’t give it time to rest, pretty soon your relationship with it will fail
Overall it is a very personal thing
• Not everything is relevant to you• There will be other things not covered that
will be relevant.• This is a learning exercise, its only through
experience that you can manage and improve your creative abilities
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