Tim Schafer, co-founder of Double Fine, creator of Psychonauts, and all around gaming genius, gave the audience at GCDC a rundown of how he sees the creative process. It includes a goose, your head, and four dogs. No, really.
To make the somewhat vaporous concept of "creativity" more tangible, Schafer compared it to a magic goose inside your head. Sometimes the eggs it lays are golden, and sometimes they're rotten, but you still have to keep feeding it, no matter what. The goose eats ideas that come from your life experiences, and if you don't feed it, Schafer cautioned, it will get smaller and smaller.
Schafer went on to illustrate the four facets of creativity with four dogs: the St. Bernard was the explorer, the Collie was the artist, the Dalmation was the judge, and the Bulldog was the warrior. The enemies of creativity (I guess in this example, they'd be cats?) are Mediocrity, Laziness, and Fear. Fear, in particular, can be a particularly daunting opponent:
GCDC: Feeding Your Inner Goose [Next Gen]
