Nobby-W
Not an axe murderer
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I find I tend to swap between extended thinking by myself and discussing things. This is more due to the way my thought processes work. Often I find that processing something in a concrete way - drawing maps, writing stuff up, discussing the things with someone qualified to comment - can get things moving. The act of producing or processing stuff engages bits of my brain that just introverting on stuff doesn't.I find that discussing game design actually warps the process. I have ideas in my head that are somewhat amorphous. They are essentially in a state of flux, even as I playtest them, but the very act of writing them down, explaining them to an audience, be it on a forum or elsewhere, seems to halt the entire process. Things get codified and crystallized that really should not be during the design stage, and in the end it prevents them growing organically. So that's why I generally don't do much design discussion on here.
By doing stuff in (often unnecessary) detail, it lets me think and come up with ideas in the detail. Often if I don't do that I just get blocked. My learning process also tend to be kinasthesic (learn by frigging with things).