Category: Getting stumped
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There are a number of repeat discussions that I have with myself whenever I go for a walk or sit down to do some thinking. Every few weeks they’ll pop up and I’ll rehash the same information, the same discussion points, and the same insights over and over and over. It’s very cyclical. So, I…
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I have a tendency when I’m playing a game to save my resources and never use them. To keep them in my inventory, tucked away, until I really “need” them. If you only have twenty-fire arrows in the whole game, you should only use them when you really need them, right? On the final boss,…
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In my last post I quoted David Lynch speaking on his process and how he compares ideas to puzzle pieces that he receives individually from some other room. He says he slowly collects these pieces one by one until he has them all, then he begins putting them together. This is a pretty simple analogy…
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The creator of the Mothership RPG, Sean McCoy, posted this blog entry last October. It references another blog by Ted Gioia, also called My Favorite Problems, which talks about the scientist Richard Feynman and how he had a dozen or so questions that guided his life’s work. Gioia created a list of his own questions,…
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It’s a great feeling when you’re struck with a very distinct vision for a project right from the get-go. When you can see all of the elements in one clean sweep, like the instructions have just been handed to you and all you have to do now is follow them. It can feel special when…