Task 20

Creativity... hmm errrrr

Creativity is a hard thing to talk about, it basically means to create things... yeah, well putting ideas we have into practice and creating something new, and if your a creative person you can keep thinking of new things.
In a game art frame of mind, it would be to think of new settings and characters for example, or something simple like thinking of a cool gun that changes the way we play.. (portal? is that creativity at work)
Game companies thrive on creativity, we need it to keep people buying new games and to keep games from becoming stale and boring, creative people have always been around to feed the games industry with ideas, even poor games have flashes of creativeness in them.
Creativity is essential in gaming but isn't the only thing companies want from graduates.. the quote on the vle explains this well,

'Creativity without craft is like fuel without an engine - it burns wildly but accomplishes little...'

This means that all the creativity in the world is no substitute for raw talent and technical knowhow... well a little, creativity is very important but if you don't know how to put your ideas into a media then your of little use to a company, who may already have lots of creative individuals who are talented in their field.
I think all games have at least a little creativity, (unless its really dire) creating monsters guns and characters all need to be done with some amount of creativity, making a whole new world or environment requires a lot of creativity.
In our course we have many creative individuals who will continue to suprise us, we are always thinking of cool little idea's that could go into games, i also think that playing games have fueled our creativity at least a little, seeing new idea's all the time and playing through different settings and seeing other peoples ideas on screen all help with our ability to create..