Ideas Machine Part 1
My ideas machine is broken, so I'm describing how it works so that a)I can come up with ideas manually and b) one of you can build me a new machine.
The first bit is easy: This is the "Input" section. You type in a phrase, or word and this is what starts the whole thing working.
Some people like to use daily obervations as a starting point for a comic strip. I love reading diary comics, because they are about somebody else, but I can never motivate myself to create one of my own; it would be boring for me to read about my own day.
Instead, I like to start with a nice ambiguous title. I used to have this section of the machine plugged directly into the Stripfight.org website, so I didn't even need to type anything in here! Each week, a new title was published, and the challenge was to create an original strip before the week was up. Sometime I forgot to check the machine until about ten o'clock on a Sunday, leaving little time to actually draw the strip. Stripfight has not been active lately (I hope it wasn't my fault - leaving my machine plugged into the internet like that..)
The machine doesn't not accept all types of input. For instance, anything involving superheroes, zombies or robots seems to make the screen freeze up.
Some good examples have been idioms (like "Burning the Midnight Oil") or single words (like "Procrastination").
Perhaps, in order to replicate the operation of the rest of the machine, I could ask one of you to give me a suitable title for a strip in the comments? I'll try to use the first one, but I might reject it if is not consistent with the idiosyncratic keyboard layout of the machine.
The first bit is easy: This is the "Input" section. You type in a phrase, or word and this is what starts the whole thing working.
Some people like to use daily obervations as a starting point for a comic strip. I love reading diary comics, because they are about somebody else, but I can never motivate myself to create one of my own; it would be boring for me to read about my own day.
Instead, I like to start with a nice ambiguous title. I used to have this section of the machine plugged directly into the Stripfight.org website, so I didn't even need to type anything in here! Each week, a new title was published, and the challenge was to create an original strip before the week was up. Sometime I forgot to check the machine until about ten o'clock on a Sunday, leaving little time to actually draw the strip. Stripfight has not been active lately (I hope it wasn't my fault - leaving my machine plugged into the internet like that..)
The machine doesn't not accept all types of input. For instance, anything involving superheroes, zombies or robots seems to make the screen freeze up.
Some good examples have been idioms (like "Burning the Midnight Oil") or single words (like "Procrastination").
Perhaps, in order to replicate the operation of the rest of the machine, I could ask one of you to give me a suitable title for a strip in the comments? I'll try to use the first one, but I might reject it if is not consistent with the idiosyncratic keyboard layout of the machine.