There's no such thing as and uninteresting topic...

awong on 2009/04/25 11:59 of cranberry sauce

Looking at the topics, a lethagic Hammer didn't see much to interest him. "I have no idea what to do with any of those topics." In fact, he was so unenthusiastic, he used a simple python snippet to make his choices :

import random
x = [1,2,3,4,5]
random.shuffle(x)
print x

By chance, he chose as #1, "Talin's Tower" (which, coincidentally, was awong's choice). I asked him, "Well, do you know what Tatlin's Tower is?" He didn't. "Do you know what scuppers are?" He didn't. "What does half a sovereign mean?" He guessed wrong."So what are are you going to do?" The Hammer didn't know? "Why don't you try Google," I suggested, trying to kickstart Hammer into action...

"Hmm, so it was a tower that the Communists wanted to build, I still don't know what to do about it"

"Well, let's talk about it" and I put on my James Burke cap on and started making connections...

...an hour later, the Hammer was raring to go. In fact, he went from the least enthusiasm to the most enthusiasm I've seen in any of the pygame challenges, We had found a game idea could encompass all of the topic ideas. It was a wild idea and we weren't sure if we could do it but were going to be a lot of fun to trying...

As I had told the Hammer before, everything is interesting if you look deep enough, you just need to be creative about it.

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Akake on 2009/04/25 13:01:

I agree, myself. Nothing is uninteresting if you look at it closely enough :-)

I like your use of storytelling to make your point, too. ^_^

--Akake

pymike on 2009/04/25 14:23:

Good post - OT: after reading your list of entries, I'm craving a Thanksgiving dinner. ;)

saluk on 2009/04/25 15:30:

My team had a very similar experience. We were a bit lost at first, but after an hour or two of hard brainstorming, we also had an idea that can fit almost any of the themes. We also have individual ideas for a few of them. My teammate also went from ambivalence to being the most excited about this pyweek of any of them.

pymike on 2009/04/25 16:15:

Yeah, I kinda was like WTF, but we have ideas for everything now. Sleeping Bears is our best idea - man I hope it wins.