Hint: want to make games, don't be such a gaming nerd. Get out a bit. See a movie. Read a book. Read a ton of comics. It helps. Least, it does according to this handy snippet from "Answers for a Game Dev Student":
Diversify your foundational knowledge and skills as much as you can that you might better step comfortably outside the proverbial box. Art, literature, culture foreign and domestic, economics, history, film, theater, sports, science, etc. Anything and everything can add to the mix, and I'm always shocked when some obscure bit of info stuck away in my noggin ends up being the very thing that inspires a solution or alternative to a problem that'd seemed otherwise intellectually insurmountable.
Looks like sound advice. Works for Rockstar. They sell a game or two.
Answers for a Game Dev Student [emon's diatribe, via GameSetWatch]
