1/16/2024 0 Comments Storywriting space game![]() ![]() Maybe the question is "how do you come up with some premise to get a story rolling? How do you get a push for a game that you might like to write?" Here, I think, the answer is most often "by playing other games or reading other stories. To me at least, that is the creative process. I see it very much as a methodical and logical process of aggregation, filtering and connectivity with the goal of creating an original interpretation or concept that gives new insight. We think of creativity as a romantic artistic magical process beyond logical comprehension. ![]() It keeps snowballing throughout development especially as the team start adding their own ideas to the core concept and it becomes my job to filter, reject or add to these ideas to protect and enhance the core concept. I’d say 95% of ideas don’t stick and sometimes the core idea just doesn’t grow and disappears.īut if the core idea survives, perhaps even a year or more later, I might have enough to create a concept for a game but even then, the process doesn’t end there. Weak ideas tend to just fade away whereas stronger ones stick and I keep building from there. Mostly this occurs in my head before I put anything down on paper. These concepts could be visual ideas like art work, scenes from a film, storylines, characters from other mediums, or thematic concepts. It doesn’t matter where it comes from but if it is something that takes hold and doesn’t go away, then it is a sure sign that this core feeling is important.įrom there, over a period of months, I start throwing concepts and ideas at that core to see if it enhances it and makes it feel more tangible. Usually I start with a core feeling that has impacted me greatly, perhaps from film, a song, a play, news or lived experience. I see myself as someone who aggregates disparate ideas into a cohesive whole and that’s probably true of everyone. The “Eureka!” notion that ideas appear out of thin air hasn’t ever happened to me. How do you come up with ideas? It’s a common question for sure. Tameem Antoniades (Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice) ![]()
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