Creativity

What is creativity?

I started my reaserach into what the term creativity actually means, and the first definition of the word creativity was.

"creativity is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts."

I believe this to be an extremley good definition of creativity. Becasue my thoughts on creativity are that it requires a huge amount of imagination. Whether it be a musician or an artist to be creative in your field you need to continually immerse yourself in that subject, this means creativity does not just require imagination even though it is a key factor, you also need to be dedicated. Dedication to better yourself, because if you dont have that determination to strive to better yourself then that creative spark will soon die out before you know it. I found a quote by Cecil B. DeMille a famous who was a famous filmmaker, and he said

"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without."

I feel that this satatment further helps me understand that creativity is not just about imagination you need have the drive to be creative, the determination.

Is creativity hindered or enhanced by technical constraints?

For me creativity is enhanced by the technology that is around today, I have not just woken up and thought this. It is evident in different areas, for instance in the movie busniess the technological advances have allowed filmmakers to do things that were not possible before, so there for it has given them a licence to dream of visual master pieces.

Also in the gaming world the technology has enhanced games for instance games have become so realistic it is slowly becoming harder and harder to tell a game from the real thing, but it has allowed designers to make their dreams a reality.

How do games manifest creativity?

Games show their creativity by coming up with games that other companies have not come up with, games that bring something totally new to the table. For instance Street Fighter, the reason why this game was such a big hit was because it was an original concept and it bought a whole new culture ti the gaming world.