Week 20 – Creativity

I would say you can’t be taught creativity, you’re either born with it or your not. But if you could how would you do it? To explain creativity is hard in itself to be creative you need to understand and think in a way no one else would. I would say I am quiet creative but not as much as I want to be. I hear people saying that schools are depriving students of being creative. Instead of trying to find if the person is of creative nature, they instead rather feed them normal life system, get good grades and get a job. Rather then help or encourage their creativity we are being subjected to things that would ultimately makes us lose interest in the arts.

I would say maybe its true; in school I didn’t to any kind of art-based studies, because in them days I drew because it was a hobby. I knew my teachers saw me drawing and they would rather stop me being creative instead maybe pushing me into the right direction of maybe going into the arts. I did do graphic design, which in some cense is a creative study, but I was more working with computers then creating something with pencils and paints.. I guess leaving school made me realise that I could be a lot more creative with a pencil. Through a lot of practise I became a lot more aware that I could draw to fairly good standard, which then led to the pursuit of what I am doing now.

But when you talk about creativity in the games industry you are always working with restraints. Time schedules, budget, and poly counts. So when it comes to creativity whilst working you have work with them restraints.

I honestly believe Halo is the worst game I have ever played, it’s over hyped and to be honest completely original, if I was going to look at from a creative stand, I don’t think it is. People will argue but its so original, space, guns and aliens wow! I am going to pre order that now (yea right). I maybe over critical of this game but I see games such as uncharted drakes fortune, the game is beautiful, colours, environments, and the character models, but people wont appreciate that because there to busy shooting aliens? There’s were I see creativity fail, peoples perception of creativity is different from someone else’s.

But then it also shows you don’t have to be creative to create a brilliant game. There going to be people who are just going to go for the space age, alien shooter, maybe because gameplay is suited to their taste. Gameplay is another issues that involves creativity, because the most creative part of the game is the gameplay itself.

I believe the games industry is going t become even bigger in the future, I believe it will challenge the movie industry, I am surprised that its not already happened, cause you play games now that have better storylines and graphics that most high budget and CGI movies.
Now that’s creative!!!!