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Hey, As you may or may not know, I've had LBP and LBP2 for only around 3-4 months, and in that time i've created about 5 levels that were published and around 5 that wern't. That's alot of creating, and because of it, some say "I burnt out". By that it means that i've built so much than i simply can not do it anymore, for now anyway. So I was advised to take a break, so I have done for about 1 month now i havn't created a thing, i've been trying other games and doing other activites., which was nice, though i'm wanting to get back to being creative and creating some decent levels for everyone in the community to enjoy But I can't, dispite my month break, I'm still in a creators block. There's not much more to add as to what lead up to the creators block, though i'm here requesting some answers/help to get me back creating some enjoyable platformers. Basicly, I need to get out of this block and back in to creating mad demon I was once How would you suggest I do that? Is there a way you keep yourself motivated? What do you do when your in a creators block? Can you offer me some themes/ideas to get me started? Why has it taken me so long to get out of this block, why am I still in it? How is it that i'm always wanting to create, always wanting to build, though when I do i'm suddenly restricted from effort and motivation? Any answers are much appreciated as i'm wasting time doing nothing each day, it's not me. Thanks in advance, RC

2011-04-29 18:52:00 Author: Unknown User

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For me I just go into create mode and mess around. I'm where your at right about now. I've done a ton of stuff that is just sitting on my moon unfinished. I always have ideas but when it comes to bringing them to the game I blank out. So what I do is set a challenge for myself. Bacsically what I'm saying is there is always room to learn. Let's say I want to build a level based on some military event. Well I known can do it but it may look that great, meaning the tanks say. I had no clue how to build tanks, they just looked like crap. So I took my time and built a bad *** tank. They are really hard to build if your building a decent looking one. Then from building tanks and learning some great skills I continued building the entire level with no problems. My point is challenge yourself with something your not good at or do not know how to do. If you do that you will open up that part of your brain thats creative. You have to be creative building whatever it is you set out for. I play the guitar and throughout the years there have been many times where I just gave up. Sometimes I felt I had known everything there is to know. Well that's just dumb. Of course I could still learn. I'm not no Hendrix or clapton. The only way I found to get out of those ruts was to learn something new. Then from there me own ideas would blossom. So my advice is to pick something challenging for you to learn and watch some tutorials. Then from that you'll start getting creative again. Just the other day i was feeling like you do. I sat in create mode messing around. I wasted about 3 hours on nothing. When I was done all I had was a bunch of junk sitting around. The next day I was doing the same thing as before. I stopped myself and thought hmm.. I'd like to make a song. So I learned everything I could about the sequencer and started composing music. I've written 5 of my own songs and started rewriting some well known songs so the community can enjoy them. Good luck, remember to have fun.

2011-04-29 19:35:00 Author: METALPUNKS Posts: 306

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Ye, I understand your point about being creative, and I can when I am motivated to do so. However, that's not the case. I have plenty of ideas, themes, and i can build it all to a great looking standard, though for some reason i'm all happy whilst do anything besides creating. The second I load up LBP2, i become drained of all efforts and just look out my window in bordem. It's not the creating I have issues with, it's geting motivated enough to want to do it. It's really complicated which Is why i'm asking for help. The best I can explain it is whilst playing other games such as Demon's Souls i play it for hours at a time before taking a break, and during the time i'm playing, i'm not bored, i'm fully focused and interested in the game. When I load up LBP2 to create, i'm wanting to build, like i've got the ideas, i know the visuals roughly so lets build! Though, mabie 5 minutes in, i become tired, bored, uninterested and unmotivated. So i lay there doing nothing but trying to focus, but nothing. So i head back onto Demon's Souls, and i'm fine, suddenly i'm not tired and full awake. It's like LBP2 drains me from wanting to play it, it's annoying. Another thing i noticed is the ealier i go to sleep and the later i wake up, the more tired I am. So if i went to sleep around 2am and woke up at 6am, i would be fine, full awake. If i went to sleep at 11pm and woke up at 11am, i'm tired for the remainder of the day, that's what's causing the drain i get from LBP2, but WHY!? It doesn't make sense and it's driving me crazy.

2011-04-29 19:46:00 Author: Unknown User

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This is fun, it's a hobby. If you force yourself to do it the fun will disappear. Let the creative impulse come and go as it will.

2011-04-29 19:50:00 Author: roux- Posts: 379

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I suppose, though it's a shame i can't create at the moment. If i let it continue, i may not create ever again AHHH

2011-04-29 20:06:00 Author: Unknown User

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Why has it taken me so long to get out of this block, why am I still in it?: How is it that i'm always wanting to create, always wanting to build, though when I do i'm suddenly restricted from effort and motivation? For both of these you have to really want to create a level with that certain theme or topic. I don't mean just mentally, I mean... well it's hard to explain. You need to have that internal "drive" pushing you to do it. I can't exactly tell you how to do this, most of the time it is spontaneous. You won't be in a rut forever, eventually your mind will latch on to something. I wouldn't advise pushing it. But if you want to try to spark inspiration, I would recommend listen to music, or looking at pictures related to your theme.

2011-04-29 20:13:00 Author: Maxi Posts: 1176

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I have an idea that i've been wanting to create since the day I got LBP2 back in Feburary, and i've always put it off, but it's one that I always get a kind of heat wave rush through me when I think about creating it, something like a spark of moitvation, and I really want to make it, because I know i'll enjoy it, i know i want to do it, and I have so many ideas that can be linked to it. Though, still, as soon as i set eyes of LBP2, i'm just suddenly drained, completely unmotivated and bored. Even though the idea i had is sitll wanting to create, i mentially can't for some reason that I can't understand. The idea i've been wanting to make is something I would call unique, not been done before as far as i can tell and would open new themes for players to explore. The idea was a platformer that begins with a book like in fairy tales. It opens, and some subtitles appear below reading the intro to the book, then the camera zooms in to the book and the level begins. That's just the start, and i'm wanting to make it, though i JUST CANT! *Sigh* Who knows?

2011-04-29 20:20:00 Author: Unknown User

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Ye, I understand your point about being creative, and I can when I am motivated to do so. However, that's not the case. I have plenty of ideas, themes, and i can build it all to a great looking standard, though for some reason i'm all happy whilst do anything besides creating. The second I load up LBP2, i become drained of all efforts and just look out my window in bordem. It's not the creating I have issues with, it's geting motivated enough to want to do it. It's really complicated which Is why i'm asking for help. The best I can explain it is whilst playing other games such as Demon's Souls i play it for hours at a time before taking a break, and during the time i'm playing, i'm not bored, i'm fully focused and interested in the game. When I load up LBP2 to create, i'm wanting to build, like i've got the ideas, i know the visuals roughly so lets build! Though, mabie 5 minutes in, i become tired, bored, uninterested and unmotivated. So i lay there doing nothing but trying to focus, but nothing. So i head back onto Demon's Souls, and i'm fine, suddenly i'm not tired and full awake. It's like LBP2 drains me from wanting to play it, it's annoying. Another thing i noticed is the ealier i go to sleep and the later i wake up, the more tired I am. So if i went to sleep around 2am and woke up at 6am, i would be fine, full awake. If i went to sleep at 11pm and woke up at 11am, i'm tired for the remainder of the day, that's what's causing the drain i get from LBP2, but WHY!? It doesn't make sense and it's driving me crazy. Two things what I meant was yes I know that you have ideas and all sorts of things floating around in your head. My point is learning makes you start bringing those ideas to create mode. Even the best creator in the world can still learn ya know. But now I'm thinking, I don't think the problem is that at all. I think it's because LBP has almost no limits. With demon souls you do what your set out to do. You can't sit there and create a UFO the shoots out hamburgers to the robotic cows that are running around a town from the old west, oh yeah while Chuck Norris is trying of kick you down. You get my point? Just think when you have no money and your in an electronics store you wish you can buy this that this. But when you finally go back after you just got that nice check. You have every intention on buying everything you've looked at, just like when you go into create mode with every intention on creating this GREAT level. Guess what you come out with nothing, why? Because there was too much to choose from. Lol sorry for all that ranting. I was having fun. Hopefully you get what I mean.

2011-04-29 20:49:00 Author: METALPUNKS Posts: 306

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No, your "ranting" is helping me understand the cause of my block towards LBP2. Though I undertstand your point, I doubt it's that at all, infact I doubt it's anything like that, though I could be wrong. I'm thinking it's because i'm just burnt out from creating in the past, and because i've deleted my levels, i'm lost all my achievements and work, and now i feel like there's no point in continuing with something that's what i would have been doing a while ago. Kinda complicated, though it's most likely my issue. Though i'd like to thank you for your "ranting" and support for me, it's always appreciated and helpful to get me back on my feet. Many thanks, Signed, RacingCreed

2011-04-29 20:56:00 Author: Unknown User

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No, your "ranting" is helping me understand the cause of my block towards LBP2. Though I undertstand your point, I doubt it's that at all, infact I doubt it's anything like that, though I could be wrong. I'm thinking it's because i'm just burnt out from creating in the past, and because i've deleted my levels, i'm lost all my achievements and work, and now i feel like there's no point in continuing with something that's what i would have been doing a while ago. Kinda complicated, though it's most likely my issue. Though i'd like to thank you for your "ranting" and support for me, it's always appreciated and helpful to get me back on my feet. Many thanks, Signed, RacingCreed If I ever lost the object and levels I've created I'd give up. LBP is so time consuming. Jeesh it took me twenty hours to build this weird space machine and I don't even have a use for it lol. I've actually been thinking about this all day because I feel the same way most of the time. I just think you need a long break from the game. Don't even look at it for the next month or two. Play something else and come back to it later. Thing is your burnt out, your done with it, you've found better things to do. For instance I am a huge Rockstar fan. I never thought I was until Red Dead Redemption came out. I spent countless hours on that game having a blast. Toward the end I would want to play it but just couldn't. I had done everything, I was finding myself hunting. Not even for the challenges, just hunting lol. I got so bored with it, no joke, I would get to the highest point of the game and watch the sunrise. So I decided it was time to retire good ole John Marston and his annoying little son. So then undead nightmare came out, even then I was bored, great game but I was over it. The network goes down about 8 months later and here I am playing single player having a blast, just like old times. So ya you are right take some time, some decent time away, at least from creating and before you know it you will be making a story book level. Your idea is cool by the way.

2011-04-30 02:08:00 Author: METALPUNKS Posts: 306

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I'd say go play some levels for inspiration, but that's kinda hard right now.

2011-04-30 02:42:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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Try really pushing yourself. Step away from making platformer - make a story level, or a survival level. It's like a rocker making a ballad, or using acoustic over electric, sometimes you have to change it up to stay creative and keep having fun. Step out of your comfort zone and really push yourself. Creating is a lot like working out, it can be fun, but most times, its hard work and dedication, and its easy to quit - but as you know, when you hut your goal and get that level looking the way you envisioned it - its well worth it.

2011-04-30 03:18:00 Author: CYMBOL Posts: 1230

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Well I don't really see myself taking time away from it because i just can't do that to a game enjoy soo much. I've begun making a lobby showcasing members of LBCE's group levels, kinda like a level showcase. 'm enjoying making it, but purely because I don't have to worry about making any gameplay. That's what bores me, the thought of obstacles and things like that. I enjoy scenery, like landscapes that have no play value, but look amazing. Almost like a painting, it doesn't do anything though it looks visuallly appealing, which is what i need. Its a shame though because that means I won't be able to publish my work for others to enjoy because most players like gameplay. If i made just scenic levels, they would be boring for players to play, and most likely just be ingored, so sadly, i don't know what to do.

2011-04-30 13:49:00 Author: Unknown User

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I realize this is kind of hard right now with PSN down, but why don't you try a group project? Find someone else to worry about the gameplay side of things and you can just work on the scenery.

2011-04-30 15:11:00 Author: KnutsoPX Posts: 116

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Yeah that's what I was going to say. People--in all walks of life--in North America especially have this notion that they should be good at whatever they want to do. The reality is, we all have different talents, so work with what you've got.

2011-04-30 20:53:00 Author: roux- Posts: 379

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