Paint colors

[sholio]

I was talking to The Husband last night about a video game he's been playing, an indie game that is apparently a two-person production (it's made by a husband and wife team of developers) and that segued into talking about Babylon 5 and Marvel, and he said something that I wanted to write down because I think it's always going to stick with me.

"Every person's brain emits a particular color of paint. If you mix too many of them together, you just get mud."

You can massage the metaphor in various directions - sometimes mixing together different paint colors is lovely! Or, if all you have to look at is suburban beige, any color really stands out. One person's garish or too pastel is another person's perfect hue. And so forth. It's just such a lovely way to look at it, and I will be thinking about that for a while. I like having different unique paint colors to look at, and refining my own.

Comments

[spacebaozi]

That's so wonderful!

[sheron]

It made me think about writing and about "overfitting" to other people's opinions. About how trying to please everyone can make the work less "personal" and less "your own" than taking some risks and basically sharing your own view on the characters.

[pauraque]

That's a very apt way of putting the "too many cooks" problem, and you certainly do see it in video games. Sometimes a studio starts out small and focused, and when they become successful and hire more people the result is that the clarity of vision goes out the window.

I was just playing the demo of a new game made by a husband and wife team too, funnily enough. He wasn't playing Who Summoned It, was he? :)

[ellenmillion]

I love this.

[silverflight8]

The Best is when the whole is greater than the sum of parts. There's some author duos where I'd sworn off reading one of the individuals but then I love the cowritten books. Magic