作者：Farshid Palad

我需要一个新角色。我知道新角色所要呈现的内容，但我对他或她的把握有多少？我的意思是说，我甚至角色的连性别都不知道。所以我并没有把握任何信息，甚至不知道要从何下手，是吧？完全错误。

我始终握有最强大的武器。你我拥有的最具创意、尚未挖掘的潜力。人类智慧，潜意识的心理活动。

我们只需发挥这个武器的力量。我们可以凭此进行头脑风暴。下面我将分享5个提高头脑风暴创造性的技巧，这定能够赋予你强大创造力。

技巧 1——绘制草图

拿出绘图本和笔，开始进行绘制。你可以绘制一切事物。绘制所有你能想到的东西。你定会对由脑中转移至纸上的构思感到惊讶（游戏邦注：所绘制的内容越多，就越能激活潜意识中的想法）。

是否想要制作有关大舌头青蛙的游戏？那么就开始绘制青蛙。或许是款赛车游戏？那就绘制汽车。图示无需非常完美，可以是由粗略线条勾勒的草图。

只有进行草图绘制，你才能够从中收获新想法，不妨进行亲身试验。

技巧 2——玩耍

这是我的最爱。置身玩具当中，进行玩耍。玩具同手头问题存在密切关系是件好事。但若毫无关联性，那更好。你越是发散思维，充分挖掘潜在可能，便越能够有效激活潜意识想法。试着玩耍30分钟，让自己充分享受其中，但同时要留心潜意识思维所产生的新想法。

legos from mentalfloss.com

我喜欢在进行头脑风暴时玩乐高玩具。我会不会太过年长？或会，或不会，但有什么关系？我喜欢研究过程带有嬉戏氛围，自己能够保持天真心态。

技巧 3——改变环境

有时最佳构思会在出乎你预料的地方出现。上健身房，慢跑，去露台或附近星巴克。有时甚至连你从卧室走到客厅也产生新想法。你现在是不是坐着？不妨站起来，在房间里四处走动。倒立，然后唱首歌。这些都很好的活动。

这是你的项目，你的创意，做你喜欢做的事情，不要刻意着眼于头脑风暴过程（游戏邦注：这会产生相反结果，然后就会出现设计障碍）。

技巧 4——放大字体

我目睹这种情况许多次。大家在进行头脑风暴时总是努力思考，伏在桌面，手夹紧笔，将所有想法写在纸上。这没什么不好，但他们故意缩小字体，旨在将所有内容都集中在一张纸上。为什么？

然后当你想要重新查看构思时，无法辨认其中信息，这意义何在？整个过程非常烦人，毫无趣味可言。我的方法与此相反。我使用粗字笔，在很大张的纸上以尽可能大的字体描绘我的构思。

这不仅比将所有内容缩至一张纸更令人愉快，更富创造性，而且更有助于我们重温构思，产生新想法。这就引出最后一点内容。

技巧 5——创意墙面

着手将所有构思放到墙上。这点的美妙之处在于只要有新内容出现在墙上，你就能够退后一步，把握整体局势。你可以查看这些构思如何混合搭配，缺少什么内容。我利用大头针，而非胶带移动内容的位置，这样更方便。当你将所有内容都呈现于墙上时，你会惊讶于自己的效率。

此外，位置和空格在记忆内容时起着显著作用。若系列内容都同某个固定位置相关，我们更容易记住。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

Become More Creative With These 5 Brainstorming Hacks

By Farshid Palad

I am in need of a new character. Now, I know what I need this character to represent, but what do I really know about him or her? Nothing. I mean, I don’t even know the gender. So I don’t really have anything and don’t even know where to begin, right? Wrong.

I have at my disposal the greatest weapon of all time. The most creative and untapped potential that exists within me and you, my friend. The human mind. The subconscious.

We just need to harness this power. Let us get to it and start brainstorming. I give to you the 5 brainstorming life hacks that I use and are bound to grant you God-like creative powers.

Hack Number 1 – Draw

Grab your sketchbook (if you don’t have one, what kind of a designer are you?) and pick up the pencil. Get cracking and draw. Draw anything and everything. Whatever comes into your mind just draw. You will be surprised at the ideas that start flowing through your mind and onto the paper. The more you draw, the more ideas you will trigger within your subconscious.

Want to make a game about a frog with a big tongue [link to a game by Big Bad Brush]? Then start drawing frogs. Perhaps a racing game? Then draw some cars. The drawings don’t have to be perfect, they can be rough drawings with ambiguous lines.

As long as you are drawing you are generating new ideas, try it for your self.

Hack Number 2 – Play

This one is my favorite. Surround your self with your toys and play. The more related they are to the problem at hand, the better. If your toys are not related, even better. The more you open your mind to the possibilities the better for your subconscious. Try playing for 30 minute or so, enjoy yur self while doing it but at the same time listen to your subconscious feeding you new ideas.

I love playing with lego when brainstorming. Am I too old? Maybe, maybe not, but who cares? I am enjoying my self being playful and silly while working and doing some R&D (thats what you should tell the wife when she catches you, R&D  ).

Hack Number 3 – Change Your Environment

Sometimes the best ideas come to you, not when but where you least expect them. Go to the gym, go for a jog, go to the patio or the local Starbucks. Even going from the bedroom to the living room can make a difference. Are you sitting down? Well get up and walk around the room. Stand on your head and sing a song. All these are perfectly fine.

Its your project, its your creation, do what you enjoy when you enjoy doing it and don’t focus too hard on your brainstorming sessions because it will backfire and you get designers’ block (if writers can get them so can we, right?).

Hack Number 4 – Go Big

I have seen this scenario far too many times. When people are brainstorming they are thinking hard, leaning over the table with their pen tightly gripped between their fingers and they are writing all the ideas on the paper. Which is good, but wait, they are trying so hard to fit everything into one piece of paper by writing extremely small. Why?

What is the point when you want to go back to review your ideas you can’t even read them? The whole process is going to be tiresome and well, no fun at all. I do the opposite. I grab a big felt pen and write my ideas as big as I can on the big presentation papers.

Not only is this far more enjoyable and creative than trying to fit everything on one page but it also helps tremendously when it comes to reviewing your ideas and generating new ones. Which leads to the final and last hack for the day.

Hack Number 5 – The Creative Wall

Start putting up all your ideas onto your wall. The beauty of this little hack is that once everything is up on the wall, you can step back and see the big picture. You can see how all those ideas mix and match and what is missing. I use pins and not tapes for easy removal and change of location. You be surprised as to how productive you will feel when you have everything up on the wall.

Additionally, location and spacing helps a lot when it comes to memorizing and remembering items. It is far easier for our beautiful mind to remember multiple items if they are associated with a fixed location.

I use all these 5 brainstorming tips whenever I need to get my creative juice flowing. So next time you want to brainstorm, grab your sketchbook and get crackin’.（Source：farshidpalad）