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Bogged down
By Cowpattybill | June 2, 2008
I’m currently stuck. The creative juices have stopped flowing. Fortunately I know this is temporary. It happens all the time to me. What I don’t know is how long it will last. I hit a roadblock in my mind and had no choice but to put ClueChaser aside for awhile. It’s still in back of my head (seems it always is) but I had to return my focus to the areas of my life that I’ve been neglecting.
My brain works in a funny way. I know that in the back recesses of my mind puzzle ideas are churning and working themselves out. At some point the back of my brain will throw an idea to the front of my brain and I’ll be back on the job, creating puzzles, working them into the storyline, etc.
Currently I have the main idea of Game 3 in my head, the video to introduce it, and the main pieces almost complete. All I really have left is to create 6 to 8 more puzzles of varying complexity. That’s where I’m stuck. So far I have created over 20 puzzles for ClueChaser and each one has been different. Continuing this trend of original puzzles is beginning to take its toll on my limited imagination. It’s not just a matter of slapping something together, you have to make it so that it can’t be solved right away, perhaps there is, or should be, a hint placed somewhere. You’ve got to make sure the answer can’t be determined by accident but only by completing the entire puzzle (done well in game 1 I think but not as well in game 2). I could go on and on but I’ll save that for another post.
Just know that I factor these down times into my forecasting so I still plan to have Game 3: Puzzle PiEces ready by late July early August.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy my ramblings. Feel free to post your thoughts/reactions. Maybe we can make something good of all this verbal nonsense.
Later,
Cowpatty Bill
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