I participated in Nordic Game Jam 2025, where I helped organize the event with the wonderful volunteering team, for the second year as organizer.
Around two weeks before the event, we realized one of the presenters cancelled, and as a replacement, I suggested giving a talk/workshop in a similar format to what I have done before, about creative limitations. This is the result–sadly it was not recorded in the main room but I recorded it myself in order to share with friends and those interested.
Watch it here:
The aim of my talk was to inspire people to expand their creative boundaries, and do it in a memorable way that is also somewhat entertaining.
Creativity is something I value, actively practice and think a lot about, in my entire career and generally in life. I learned quite a few things about the creative process, and I wanted to share some of those learnings, in a fun interactive way that maybe contrasts what is a typical presentation format at conferences.
I focused on overcoming creative limitations, and explored what limitations mean and how they can be used to generate ideas and how they affect a brainstorm session - with live examples where we actually came up with little ideas during the talk, with different constraints.
Even though it was more about the process, and I didn't set any expectations to actually come up with good ideas, as it happens (when you put 100 creative people in a room and ask them silly questions) we did have a lot of good ideas! One of my favorite ideas that sprung from this exercise was a one-button rap-battle rhythm game using morse code, which I really hope someone makes! (maybe me?).
I hope you give it a watch and let me know in the Youtube comments if you had any thoughts or new inspiration as a result of my talk. I'd love to spread it around so I intend to use this to do more fun workshops!
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