Q: Any advice for coming up with a truly original idea? When I try to come up with an original game idea it usually goes like "Take someone else's idea and add a twist", but I'd like to try to come up with something truly original.
A: when it rains, it pours. make it pour. my best way to get started on that, is go to a text file and just start blowing my brains out, and do it for ever and ever and ever and ever, every day. it works with other mediums too. piano keyboard, song improv, sketch pad, ..... set up contests with yourself as to who can make the worst thing ........ you'll start coming up with some different ways ....