[Kairos] Brains and a new game.

Posted by Kairos on April 30, 2007, 3:52 p.m.

I was reading recently about articles and theories based on the brains of left-handed people vs right-handed ones. Mainly cause I'm in that lefty minority and I'd like to know what really differs besides handwriting.

They say stuff that range from being more prone to accidents to being more intelligent, but I don't really believe in that sort of stuff, I'm more interested in how the brain functions differently.

They say you use your left side of your brain for the language and for doing things like math. The right side has a bunch of creativity and imagination. No one really knows at this point, but a lot of smart / famous people were left handed (Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, etc). But since you use more of the opposite side of your brain compared to your left or right handed-ness, I supposedly am less smart in math and more so in creativity.

I guess this does indeed correlate to me, cause I always seem to suck a lot at math, and I have to study hours more than the average person just to get an ok grade on some math test. My art is natural, I never took any real and proper drawing lessons, yet they still look pretty good; same with creativity, which comes in with my hobby of making entertaining things either with physical objects or on the computer.

But I don't get why Einstein was so great with math then. So many things that could possibly change the way your brain works, and that's pretty interesting. Left handers have been assumed to be good at multi-tasking, as well. Their brains do not work like right handers, as they theorize, they solve things by, for example, taking a glance over a couple objects and then try to search for a pattern that resembles what the result would be if you did something. Right handers are assumed to analyze things one by one. All theory but interesting. Then again, there's probably lots of lefties that don't feel anything different, so I'll leave it at that.

Anyway, I'm working on a new game. Nothing but a screen for anyone interested:

I'm focusing more on pixel graphics than fancy effects this time, I'm trying to change the style for every game I attempt to make. This one is going to be average length, I hope. And the spriting I've done is my own style, I dunno if anyone thinks it's ugly or whatnot. I've never really looked at spriting tutorials.

Comments

JID 17 years, 6 months ago

looks cool.

Kenon 17 years, 6 months ago

not bad color choices, but a little dithering would go a long way.

Jabberwock 17 years, 6 months ago

I'm a lefty too. Lefty powah reigns supreme!

Nathan 17 years, 6 months ago

Yay, I'm left handed too, but I suck at maths and creativity! oh well there is always anomalies.