Clearing Creative Road Blocks to Keep the Creative Juices Flowing

Smashing Creative Road Blocks Presented by Alexander Shen Mochi Media

INTRODUCTIONS – MOCHI MEDIA
Company’s mission is to build a ubiquitous game monetization and distribution platform
Free platform APIs:
Monetization via Ads
Distribution
Microtransactions
Leaderboards
… and more!

INTRODUCTIONS – MOCHI MEDIA
MOCHI GAME DEVELOPER FUND
A $10 million fund to support Flash and social game developers to build world-class games and businesses.
www.mochimedia.com/fund/

MOCHI GAME Fund Examples

WHAT IS CREATIVITY?
Creativity
Mental process involving the discovery of new ideas and concepts. It is the ability to create.
How is it measured? The distance between two separate nodes/ideas in your brain. The further the distance of which these ideas can be connected, the more “creative” it is.

CREATIVITY = SUCCESS?
Creativity
A “very creative” idea does not necessarily equate to successful Idea

G.E.E.K.

G is for Game
Go out there and play games.
Not the games you always play to kill time.
Play games you may not have picked up before.
Do NOT forget about traditional board games, card games and table top games.

E is for Experiment
Prototyping is extremely important!
An idea is only as good as its execution, so build something playable.
Many tools available:
Adobe Flash
Multimedia Fusion 2
HTML5
Game Maker
Pen and Paper

E is for Encourage
It is very important to go out there and encourage other people’s ideas and they shall encourage yours.
Community is very important in absorbing new ideas and bouncing ideas off others.
Resources:
TIGSource
Indie Games Blog
Experimental Gameplay Project
Ludum Dare Competition
Gamestorm (gamestorm.tumblr.com)
Any Flash game place (Mochi Media forums, Kongregate forums, FGL, etc.)

K is for Kill
Kill all thoughts that your idea is not worth pursuing.
Your worst critic will always be yourself, especially after the first three phases.
Unless you actually try, it will always be a dream.

K is for Kill
… but also remember, that sometimes you’ll have to learn how to let go too.

G.E.E.K. in Review

Other resources… books with words!
Other fun resources to check out:
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (ISBN 10: 0123694965)
Challenges for Game Designers (ISBN 10: 158450580X)
A Theory of Fun (ISBN 10: 1932111972)
Game Inventor’s Handbook (ISBN 10: 1600374476)
Game Kickstarter (www.shengames.com/flash/gamekickstarter/)

Contact Information
E-mail:
[email_address]
Website:
alexandershen.com
Twitter:
@alexandersshen
(there are two S’s)

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Clearing Creative Road Blocks to Keep the Creative Juices Flowing

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