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[Klaim]

Thinking about the problem of perfectionism that me, some of my friends and a lot of people around here and in other creative or development communities have...


...I started to think that there might be ways to work on ourselves with help of a game?

The goal would be to design a game that :
 - help realisation perfectionism (maybe by exploiting/making obvious analisis-paralisis?)
 - maybe help to learn ways to reduce the negative impact of perfectionism
 - ?

Here I consider that perfectionism have a bad but also a good side so it shouldn't be totally considered a problem, but only something to better realise and manage in an efficient way.

Maybe games with such goals would help us all? What do you think?


So here I'd like to ask you if you have ideas of game concepts, game mecanics and other ideas, whatever they are, that might inspire us to build something to help us (recursivity is natural).

At the moment I'm still thinking about starts of ideas but didn't get something interesting yet, so maybe you have some and want to share?

[jwaap]

I think the most important thing is to realize that a game is never done: there is simply a point where you have to stop working on it and throw it out.

Also, make sure you take decisions. Perfectionism only works when you actually do something with it.

[Klaim]

Yes, at the moment I'm thinking about macanics of hard choices, but with a coin fliper in the interface (that don't give you anything else that the fliping result).

But until now it's still hard to think about a game concept that would exploit that in an interesting way, that's why I ask here.

[gimymblert]

Plan milestone, not taask

[Klaim]

A game about planning?

[s0]

Plan milestone, not taask

Pretty much, yeah.

[Uykered]

Pro tip: this game sounds boring. If you want to communicate something like this just do it in text its much clearer that way.

[Klaim]

Again, it's not really about communicating, it's about experiencing it. And then play with the concept.

[C.D Buckmaster]

Perhaps some kind of game where the purpose of each level/central mechanic is to convert some kind of chaotic object to a more ordered form.

It's kind of a broad outline of an idea and may be too abstract for your purposes, though.

[antymattar]

Consider a painting, the Artist is never done painting it until it is perfect in his eyes. But, by becoming perfect it becomes almost real, and by becoming "real" it is no longer a painting.

[Klaim]

Perhaps some kind of game where the purpose of each level/central mechanic is to convert some kind of chaotic object to a more ordered form.

It's kind of a broad outline of an idea and may be too abstract for your purposes, though.

I'm mostly at this point too in my thinking.