Most important skill

[Codein]

Originally Posted by zokemon

Once you have a very clear understanding of GS2, your level of scripting skill isn't just about the understanding any more but then also about your creativity and logic processing. Really complex and innovative things require a ton of imagination. Joe could be exactly the same as Bob in respects to how much they both understand GS2 but Joe would be ten times better then Bob if his imagination was better simply because he could utilize what he knew in a much more efficient fashion.

Do you think I could come up with the attached set of algorithms with out any imagination?



Sadly, you can.

I get what you mean about imagination...

However, you're missing out big style on the importance of level design. Secret of Mana wasn't successful just for it's systems alone. It had great level design and graphics.