What is meant by brain storming? How to develop brain storming ideas? What is mind mapping and how it works ? How brain storming helps in serious games ?
As per Wikipedia, brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members.
Roughly speaking, it's just an open discussion where the ideas are presented by the participants but not criticised (the critical evaluation is done at the next step).
The basic concept behind brainstorming is to capture ideas as quickly as possible so that you get past the judgment that you typically use to assess ideas before recording them, and instead we want to capture the ideas as they occur assuming no money, time, resource or any other constraint, and without judgment, building on ideas as you think of them as well as pushing yourself to think in new directions.
The concept is that out of quantity comes quality – there will be great ideas in amongst the many ideas you throw out there.
Brainstorming is a process where different options of one particular work/task/event get discussed in detail and it is not depending upon whether any conclusion has been drawn out of it. The thought process in itself is important not the result.