# How do you find inspiration?
**URL:** https://theunderscore.xyz/t/how-do-you-find-inspiration/704
**Category:** \_creative
**Created:** [December 11, 2025, 6:05am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/how-do-you-find-inspiration/704 "2025-12-11T06:05:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@adriendittrick](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/adriendittrick)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 6:05am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/how-do-you-find-inspiration/704/1 "2025-12-11T06:05:28Z")
I’m a bit on a gamedev block right now, how do you usually get out of it?
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### Author:  [@AlienBob](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/AlienBob)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/how-do-you-find-inspiration/704/2 "2025-12-11T06:43:56Z")
Lots of ways, not all which are in my control, but the one that _is_ in my control the best?
Rest.
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### Author:  [@Festy](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/Festy)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/how-do-you-find-inspiration/704/3 "2025-12-11T10:04:03Z")
Lately for me it’s watching a really enjoyable movie. I didn’t really have the beans for creating anything new, then I watched Saw X, and _poof_– I’d suddenly created a new character for a Monster of the Week tabletop game - complete with a backstory - who I’m slightly obsessed with.
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### Author:  [@nika](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/nika)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/how-do-you-find-inspiration/704/4 "2025-12-11T18:52:25Z")
by scratching it off my porosity with a fingernail.
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### Author:  [@NylePudding](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/NylePudding)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/how-do-you-find-inspiration/704/5 "2025-12-12T22:58:02Z")
Trying something new really helps for me, like a new genre you haven’t experienced much, be it movies, music, games, whatever. :)
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### Author:  [@BadNewsBen](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/BadNewsBen)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/how-do-you-find-inspiration/704/6 "2025-12-13T14:13:15Z")
This is more or less what I was going to reply, I find exploring new genres and mediums I don’t know that well to be hugely influential in creating my own stuff and often results in me wanting to create stuff within that genre or medium.