a little inspiration from one of the gaming industry's great designers

[The Hierophant]

I came across this poem at www.adventuregamers.com
It's written by Dave Grossman, co-designer of such great gaming titles as 'Day of the Tentacle' and the first two 'Monkey Island' games.


? Ideas are like dust and lint
They ceaselessly appear
Churned out dirty from the mint
They choke the atmosphere
It's easy to detect them
They are coating every surface
The trick is to collect them
And to make them serve a purpose
To separate the choicest bits
To pound and sand and scrape them
To wad them up and make them stick
To polish and reshape them
Peeling, padding, painting, poking
Pressure, glue and heat
Strongarm tactics, gentle coaxing
Charges and retreats
To add, subtract, adjust, combine
To trim but not diminish
And most of all, to draw the line
That says the thing is finished ?


Gave me a smile. And makes me want to work on my university essays [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Vaskez]

LOL - that's errr strange, kind of insightful but mostly a bit wierd

[Timber Loftis]

Nice. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]