Inspiration and Staying Motivated...

[Blizzard]

I'm not at parties ALL THE TIME. I'm only OFTEN at parties. :

[nerissya]

I'm not at parties ALL THE TIME. I'm only OFTEN at parties. :

ORly?

[Blizzard]

But actually parties inspire me as well. I often meet new people and sometimes I even do something I've never done before. i.e. I was playing the first time Singstar on PS2 at saturday night. We were and my roommate's boyfriend first for 2 or 3 hours before we went to the party. I've had an idea to make a minigame in my game where you have to sing by hitting the right buttons at the right moments.

[Cid]

I draw inspiration from many things. Mostly stuff that's happened within my circle of friends over the years. When I first started messing around with RM2K back in '02, the aim was to actually make a comedy RPG based on what we got up to during our school days, only greatly exaggerated. Some of these elements are still planned for my current XP project.

TV programmes and other games/RPGs also give me a lot of inspiration. I actually hate it when I play a new RPG because I almost always end-up wanting to shift the setting and atmosphere to suit it. Like the time I played Digital Devil Saga and decided that my RPG needed to have a darker atmosphere and demon-morphs. I've also toyed with Lost/Heroes themes in the past, some of which are still set to be in the game.

Motivation is a big problem for me. Oddly enough, I often lose it due to being inspired by something new. More recent ideas win over against existing ones, and I end up wanting to change almost everything around. Sometimes I'll spend weeks designing characters/animations, jotting down ideas, and really getting stuck in. Then all of a sudden I'll look back on what I've done and just not like any of it. I've made attack animations in the past which I've been immensely proud of, yet when I play them now I just think "ugh...what was I on when I made this?", and leave the whole project alone for the next few weeks. I think it's just a case of my spriting skills getting better over time, and no longer being satisfied with what I already have. Right now I'm in the process of completely redesigning 90% of my playable cast, and cutting almost every skill animation I've made over the last year or so. Although I'm confident that this really will be the last redesign...

On a positive note, it usually only takes one tiny, often insignificant (in the grand scheme of things) idea to set me off again.

[Blizzard]

With me it's slightly different. Instead of new ideas winning over older ones, I always find a way to connect it to the old idea and build upon it. If not, I usually discard the new idea. I also often get inspired with new ideas when I personally have enough of the old ones, lol!
Sometimes I get ideas by simply seeing a battle graphic or a map. I instantly get half of a story for one character, something like the skelleton of a dungeon's background.

[Fantasist]

With me it's slightly different. Instead of new ideas winning over older ones, I always find a way to connect it to the old idea and build upon it. If not, I usually discard the new idea. I also often get inspired with new ideas when I personally have enough of the old ones, lol!
Sometimes I get ideas by simply seeing a battle graphic or a map. I instantly get half of a story for one character, something like the skelleton of a dungeon's background.

It's the exact same for me. I encourage new ideas, and try to connect them with old ones. My only problem is, the data's too fragmented in a manner of speaking. I have a lot of cleaning to do.

Yeah, you can all become as good as I am. You just need to keep working.  I'd love to see more games in the ranking of CP.

My new goal, which might be impossible in entirety - Make my game which will out-class CP!!
...rather far fetched with my current speed, but someday, Bliz HAS to retire, right? CP WIL be complete one day, and I'll beat it someday... BEHOLD MY THIRD ITERATION!

[Starrodkirby86]

Actually I would like to get back onto the topic. When somebody tells you you're doing good, do you guys usually get motivated about that!?

Yes, despite the fact out of my whole friends of RPG Making and community wise, there are only less than 10 people that even use RPG Maker, and I'm the best, which is considered obsolete because of the little quantity of people anyway.

With me it's slightly different. Instead of new ideas winning over older ones, I always find a way to connect it to the old idea and build upon it. If not, I usually discard the new idea. I also often get inspired with new ideas when I personally have enough of the old ones, lol!
Sometimes I get ideas by simply seeing a battle graphic or a map. I instantly get half of a story for one character, something like the skelleton of a dungeon's background.

It's the exact same for me. I encourage new ideas, and try to connect them with old ones. My only problem is, the data's too fragmented in a manner of speaking. I have a lot of cleaning to do.

Yeah, you can all become as good as I am. You just need to keep working.  I'd love to see more games in the ranking of CP.

My new goal, which might be impossible in entirety - Make my game which will out-class CP!!
...rather far fetched with my current speed, but someday, Bliz HAS to retire, right? CP WIL be complete one day, and I'll beat it someday... BEHOLD MY THIRD ITERATION!

You can easily outclass CP in some categories. The only difficult area would be the scripting, especially compiling your very own, as what Blizzard has done. We're lucky that Bliz is very nice to release them out...'least, that's what I say.

[Fantasist]

You can easily outclass CP in some categories. The only difficult area would be the scripting, especially compiling your very own, as what Blizzard has done. We're lucky that Bliz is very nice to release them out...'least, that's what I say.

It's quite the opposite. I can make my own scripts, eventually, but it's everything else that matters...

[Valcos]

Yeh....I make my own ideas :-\ Does that count for anything  ???....guess not

[Blizzard]

Of course it does. Actively thinking about something is like brainstorming. Why should ideas that you get by brainstorming not count as inspiration?

[Starrodkirby86]

Do people actually organize and/or brainstorm (Using the classic web technique) for their RPG? Such as ideas, considerations, traits, and all of that stuff, does anyone do that sort? For me, I keep a journal to write the story, but that's just an organization sort of thing. However, I did use a Brainstorm web (bubbl.us, great site for Brainstorm webs), but not to the extent I would use for essays and writing compositions. It makes me curious.

[Valcos]

Of course it does. Actively thinking about something is like brainstorming. Why should ideas that you get by brainstorming not count as inspiration?

Sweet, Im constantly thinking of new ideas ;D...most are useless but some i actually get something from .

[Calintz]

It's good to see that this topic is getting back on track, and really good input guys...

[Fallen Angel X]

My inspiration again is also from boredom  I might get bored and just start using rmxp 

[Blizzard]

I often work on an idea when I have one. I have a cool idea for a cutscene and then I start improving it in my head. When I finally make that cutscene, I improve it more and more until I am satisfied with the results. (That means I get goose bumps and tears fill me eyes when I watch the cutscene because of its epicness.)

[Fallen Angel X]

I love when I get moments like those blizz... But I don't get goosebumps  That's a good idea... constantly improving...  :-\ I should do that  ;D

[Valcos]

Im not going to lie, I do that with my football. But thats not what this threads about so I wont expand on that.

But like the old saying "Practise makes perfect" is the way to go . Thats what im going to do with my photoshop skillz . I wanna start a Title Screen Making thread eventualy . Not anytime soon though Im not good enough yet ;D.

[Fallen Angel X]

Im not going to lie, I do that with my football. But thats not what this threads about so I wont expand on that.

But like the old saying "Practise makes perfect" is the way to go . Thats what im going to do with my photoshop skillz . I wanna start a Title Screen Making thread eventualy . Not anytime soon though Im not good enough yet ;D.

Will look forward to that Val YAY for practice and hardwork and reaping the benefits to moving forward!

[fugibo]

I just get bored and mess around with ideas.

[Fallen Angel X]

I just get bored and mess around with ideas.

I think that's what most of us do really  :-\