Posted 25 November 2012 - 03:40 AM
Here's one big secret to design:
Inspiration is all around you! You just have to 'see' it.
Basically, yes you can sit there and try to "force" yourself to think of a certain game design, but in my experience this is not the best way to go about game design. I find that my best ideas just come to me whilst simply going through my normal life. What you need to do is recognise when you have one of those ideas and note the idea down in one sentence. Then later when you sit at your desk instead of trying to "force" yourself to think of an idea, you already have your initial idea from inspiration to start from.
Note: this is based on the number of ideas from "forced" and "came to me" that I throw out.

I totally agree with him..
This is the best way to find out new ideas or explore different things and try to make combinations with the contained assets and available resources.