Monday 23 September 2013

The randomness generator

A great way to create original themes is using 5 subjects and random things! Basically what you have to do is write down a few things with no correlation to one another and them pick them randomly and try to make up something to relate them, look at the example:

Person: Mom, Dad, God, Bruce Willis, Teacher
Place: Europe, Krypton, Gotham, India, New York
Time: 12:34, 1998, Iron Age, 8 BC, 3647
Object: Power Sword, Rock, Socks, Hair Brush, Watch
Animal: Dog, Wolf, Shark, Minotaur, Fly

We can create a game that involves Bruce Willis traveling in India when he spots a Hair Brush made in 8 BC that gives him magic hair growth. But in order to get it he has to swim in the Ganges River and defeat a giant Shark. When you say it like that it sounds stupid, but think about other great games created in the past: Mario; an Italian plumber who has to go to a castle to rescue a princess from a giant dinosaur.
Mario vs Bowser

And there are many more in the list. You can add and remove as many items as you want from the list, it doesn't matter! Anything can happen i the world of games, so use your imagination!

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