Games as a reference source for creativity and inspiration

[kotaro]

I'm an artist and often find myself extremely influenced by games in my creative process, game music, game design and art direction always make the good observers eye twinkle, when I get across a game that has all these elements on point I feel so alive :v and it helps me to continue my creative motifs (mostly in the concept art and character design field).
I would like to hear from others what they feel when they get inside a CG interactive story that makes them stick attention to it's atmosphere and narrative.

 

[Yousef]

I agree with all this as I’m also constantly creatively influenced by games to write and create stuff.

 

[kotaro]

I agree with all this as I’m also constantly creatively influenced by games to write and create stuff.

Trueeee

 

[Bonkers225]

Listen to the PiP-Boy radio, while traveling out at night in Fallout 3/New Vegas and 4.

 

[tenkaistar]

I’ve been playing around in game engines and blender for years inspired by the silent hill/twin peaks style. That style of storytelling and aesthetics really inspires something in me

 

[kuroninneko]

I been liking the landscapes in recent open world games like LoZ BotW/TotK. I even took some time to try landscape painting

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

Anything that gives me a pleasant aesthetic experience could be inspirational
One frame is enough to bring me an idea,
Then i try to do somenthing
and i fail miserably
like always...

With the different stories in games is more of the same pattern.

 

[Stingy Perry]

A lot of inspiration can drawn from games like the visuals, landscapes, environments and architectures. Let’s face it video games tells better stories than Hollywood nowadays.

 

[ProcolKrautSprout73]

I've been recently playing Day of the Tentacle by Lucasarts, I'm new to point and click games, but the sheer level of quality in the animation always amazes me. It's so fluid, bouncy, and full of character, really pushing the sprites to their limit. Especially with this game in particular with it's janky, distorted, slightly unhinged, saturday morning cartoon style (similar to Sam and Max which I recently finished). It reminds me of how in Courage the Cowardly Dog they distorted the setting in order to highlight the uncanniness or surreal aspects (akin to the techniques used in German Expressionism with Caligari, Metropolis, etc) I really don't know how Lucasarts did it, it's like black magic!