Damn! It always takes me far too long to work out exactly where I'm going wrong with an ailing project.
Why have I had so much trouble trying to squeeze inspiration from this place? The reason being my memories are interfering with my creativity; Almost everywhere I look I see what something or somewhere has been, rather than what it could be. Being in new territory, my imagination runs riot, visualising the area in five different styles before overlaying events and action that could potentially fit around the surroundings.
Working from Letchworth, however, when walking down a street I see a street walked a thousand times, in a shop-front a place entered more times than I can count, my parents house the place nineteen years of my life were spent.
As it stands all I can come up with is to produce a piece mostly auto-biographical, although given my time and resources that's a reasonably illogical course of action. Not to mention the trouble I would have to make an interesting gameplay concept out of it.
Currently, the most inspiring area for me is the road where I now live, and that's only because it was never really travelled on during my years growing up here. Either that or it could be down to me bizzarly finding industrial buildings visually interesting.
If I can work out where this project is to end up utilising the few meagre ideas my head, I'll be able to make a decent start on this.
At the very least it will all be good practice...
