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inspiration - xero - 29-03-2016 i assume i'm not the only one who draws inspiration from random things. for instance, at work i was fixing some bug and saw this product image and saved it. idk why, but i was really infatuated with the image. if you haven't noticed yet, i have a thing for seamless tile wallpaper. so i worked out the pattern, tweaked it a bit, changed the colors, added a new element... and it made for some cool wallpaper. show / tell me some of your inspiration stories nixers. RE: inspiration - acg - 29-03-2016 You did quite good job there, xero. Hopefully I'll have an inspirational story like yours one day. RE: inspiration - venam - 30-03-2016 Ah... inspirations. I have a story for every single project I've worked on. Actually, all of them were created because or as a consequence of a weird idea. The potato game was made just after the gravity game. It was summer, some years ago, and I wanted to try myself at a new HTML5 game. I was cooking dinner for my little brother and big sister and talking about what the game could be about. And, like all brainstorming sessions, we were throwing non-sense ideas until my brother said, while I was pealing potatoes to make French fries, "Why not make a game where you cut potatoes". I replied positively and everyone was surprised as it was total non-sense. I started working on the game and I thought of adding a new factor, an enemy! I was sitting on a bench at univ when that girl, which I liked at the time, passed by. I told her to give me an idea of a "monster-thingy" to add to the game. She said "add a cockroach", and that was it. The game was built. (It's not a very good game) If you like this kind of story I can go on and on. I have more Unix-oriented stories too. RE: inspiration - Wildefyr - 30-03-2016 What software do you use xero for creating a pattern like that? RE: inspiration - pranomostro - 31-03-2016 Sometimes I see things and I immediately think: This is art. It can be anything, the way some books are put into a shelf, a street, people working or a chair. It's probably because I have seen too much modern art, but it's also funny when I realise I have stood in the street for 10 minutes staring at some street sign because I got fascinated by it as a work of art.