Post links to music, visuals, pictures, game footage, books, poems, strange stuff, weird stuff, stuff that only makes sense to you, stuff you've bookmarked for some weird reason without knowing if you're ever going to look at it again, but you feel like it just deserves a bookmark. Or basically whatever you wish to - as long as you feel like that something has at one point inspired you.

Also - post a short snippet describing what it is in each of these nuggets that makes it special to you. That is, if you feel like it. Or don't. Just try to be inspired and inspire others.

My first entry belongs to the game Pencilwhipped - a hand-drawn first person shooter that I never got into, but I haven't been able to forget since I saw it more than ten years ago.

My second entry goes to this song - simply because of the way I it captures my imagination.

My third entry belongs to the first (so far really only) demo that made my jaw drop. Things go bonkers when it gets to the scroller. This is the first 64 kB demo I ever saw, way back in 2001 (the demo is from 2000).

A considerable selection from Arvo Pärt's repertoire. The cello rendition of his Fratres for the film There Will Be Blood is a particularly chilling example.

The 42 second drop from atop The Sunspire in Unreal back in 1999.

I'm not sure why, but the track Empty Cans by The Streets has always inspired me. Probably because it exemplifies how everything that goes wrong can be turned completely around by a simple change in perspective.

My latest Lego model:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=536041

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Making something like that could be fun! :)

Great topic.

@Irreversible: the 64k is indeed amazing, I just watched it. Takes me back to the time where wormholes were special. I especially remember a demo from the demo scene/ time which featured the music of the movie 'Anistacia' (too bad I can't find the demo anymore). Without offending people, I always thought that creating things in that time, on that hardware, within 'Kb' limits, was even more difficult then the opportunities today's hardware, storage etc. provides.

Here are 2 of my inspiriations, one (Fernando Alonso) being my example in many things (that even the impossible can be achieved sometimes), the other telling me that in my home country amazing gaming productions can take place.

(Ps.: how can I add youtube movies in a topic/ thread?)

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Simon Schreibt's Game Art Tricks archive (plenty of creative techniques)


Prince of Persia 2 game bible


Crash Bandicoot 1 post-mortem article


1138 Behind-the-scenes photos of the original Star Wars trilogy


Epilogue. An online art gallery, mostly fantasy art


Steering behaviours for Autonomous Characters (AI steering models)

Ps.: how can I add youtube movies in a topic/ thread?)

Click on the "Special BBCode" button in your post formatting toolbar (top row, third from the left), and from the combo-box select "Media." Inside the "Media URL" text area, paste in the full YouTube link. Alternatively, use the [ media ] [ /media ] tags to enclose the full YouTube link.

Low poly, pixel-art style 3D artists:

Kenneth Fejer's website

Tommy Tallian's website

Henk Nieborg's gallery

Imagine the games we'll be making with this:

http://vimeo.com/94622661

Who cares for perfection - just make stuff work!

http://www.konjak.org/index.php?folder=4&file=30

Dude makes AAA 2d games by himself. Its impressive the amount of content and quality he manages to pull of.