It comes when I least expect it, at the most inconvenient times, and when I'm barely even awake. The creative flow -- a supernatural fragment of neurons (haha what?) that fire while I'm laying in bed and failing to sleep. I'm generally the type of person who puts my head on the pillow and is zonked out right away, but recently (probably due to the copious amounts of caffeine I have been ingesting recently) I am incapable of turning the brain switch off.
And I am so thankful for that. It is rare when I can come up with a gameplay idea that has the potential to be truly unique. Oop! Right as I'm sitting here I came up with another idea. Last night as I was fighting for sleep, I shot up out of bed and dug around for my notebook again. Once again I will need to carry my Moleskine around. At home the flow is nonexistent, and I have no need for carrying it around with me, but here in Burlington it thrives!
I'm wondering if a game idea can come from this idea of "supernatural neurons," but my mind just brings me to Tim Schafer's Psychonauts. That game should have gone platinum, and it is a shame that it didn't. I wonder what his creative flow is like....
1 comment:
It's so good to hear about things like this, especially from you. I too have recently been rediscovering my own passions, especially for art.
I'm also going to try to keep up with this journal. I regret falling behind and such with your last one.
Really interesting stuff.
-JB
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