Streak Club is a place for hosting and participating in creative streaks.
10 ideas about using so-called "neural networks" to improve one's (creative) workflow
I'm not deep into neural networks (yet). I trained a neural network on text based works (Jules Verne) the last days (used https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn).
I hope this makes sense .. a very interesting topic. I don't get it completely yet, but I think it'll increase in use and influence in near future.
I attached my first test of training a RNN on 4 books of Jules Verne for a day. It would need a bit more time and data, but it already yields pretty interesting results.
This is my last submission to the 10 ideas a day streak for now. My goal for this streak was to improve on my creative thinking, as I believe that can be treated like a skill you can train. So this last submission is devoted to more ideas to improve.
This was a fun streak! I really felt like I there already was a change in my ability to come up with ideas, putting me in the right mindset.
And I created some maybe interesting ideas on the way :D May continue this in analog form in my notebook.
Today I chose a random theme using https://www.randomlists.com/random-words and added the modifier of "3d prints" to it - I want to come up with 3d printed products.
To switch things up, this time I asked my Twitter followers to give me a theme. Well, I got this. Not my favorite theme but I'm gonna try.
So this was actually a good theme! Lot's of meaningful, darker things here. Thanks ludonaut for the theme! :)
It's already pretty late, so I'm gonna try to make it as quick as possible this time :D
Theme is from my generator again!
Today is a little experiment! I used my generator to give me a random topic and will try to come up with art ideas around it.
I really liked this experiment! Was a really fun way of brainstorming, it just kept the ideas coming ^^
While I'm still a student, I heard from quite some people how much of a struggle it can be to earn a living as an indie developer.
As I'm also considering this as an option, I want to come up with alternate ideas about getting an income, besides the regular selling games as product and filling the gaps with contract work (not that there would be anything wrong with that).
Ideas to make game worlds more coherent and atmospheric
Time to revive the 10 ideas a day streak, to get better at creative thinking!
Today I want to come up with ideas to increase reader participation in the "traditional" blog format.
While blogs had a great importance in the early 2000's, the audience seems to shift more towards video formats. I assume this comes from videos being more fitting for the medium of a 2D screen (blogs as relic of newspaper and early text-oriented Internet), more visually appealing and more "personal", with a stronger connection of reader and author (e.g. Vlogs, Streams, Social Media).
So how can blogs be adapted to be more fitting for the current point in time? How can we make them more visually appealing, interactive and personal? Here are 10 ideas.
1. Involve 2D visual arts (images, video) in blogposts, as they are the dominating medium (will prob change later towards 3D representation & VR)
2. Use headlines & images (other means of providing a clear structure) to make articles easily skim-able
3. If fitting include personal thoughts, experiences and stories to underline points (more personal)
4. For personal blogs, introduce yourself as person (e.g. image, short description or video), not as pure name
5. Provide easy ways for readers to participate by discussing the points highlighted in the blogpost
6. Include specific questions about the topic of the blogpost to spark discussion
7. Provide opportunities for the readers not only to discuss with you, but also with each other. The traditional threaded blog-comment system is probably outdated. Maybe a more "grouped" system as on Youtube would work, but without the upvoting feature.
8. Create "illustrative" cover images (with title text), that summarize the expected content and spark interest
9. Host a regular blog format all focused around discussing a topic or question with the readers/ encouraging them to share their perspective and and experiences
10. Provide more "modern" ways to keep updated with your blog. RSS is great, but most people use Social Media. Or use an email-newsletter, everybody still has an email-address.
So this were 10 (random) ideas to make blogposts more fitting for the current developments. I hope you found some inspiration.
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