I wanted to share a bit of someone else’s imagination with you today.  I read a while back about the Independent Games Festival, created back in 1998, “…to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers.”  According to the IGF, the creators wanted to develop a forum akin to what Sundance represented for independent filmmakers.  One of the results of that festival is exposure for innovative and imaginative games like Crayon Physics Deluxe.  Crayon Physics Deluxe was created by Seumas McNally.  He describes the game as “…a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects.”  But nothing compares to seeing it for yourself.  Take a look:

Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo.

It seems such a simple concept for a game.  And yet, McNally has created a stage on which a user can test his/her ingenuity and imagination.  What a gift!  You can check out a demo version of the game on their website and test your own creativity in their virtual sandbox.

Cheers,

Megan

As Meg mentioned in a HarmonyWishes tweet recently, the TED video trove is an excellent source of inspiring talks from great minds.  HW’s recent interview on this blog with photographer and painter Nina E. Hauser reminded me of a wonderful TED video I saw several months ago.  Nina mentioned, “The Greeks believed that each child was blessed at birth with a personal “daemon” embodying the highest possible expression of his or her nature.”  Well, writer Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love) spoke on that very subject in her TED talk. It is a lovely speech about the source of creativity, and the faith to believe in it.

Enjoy!

Megan