Great brainstorming is a numbers game - you need fifty ideas to get five good ones. But when people sit down cold, they self-edit before they even speak. That internal critic kills ideas instantly.

Brain warm-ups short-circuit that self-limiting mindset. Rapid-fire games force you to generate without judging. There's no time to think "this is stupid." You're just creating. And that muscle memory carries forward. Once you've spent ten minutes being playful and fearless, people stay in that mode. The room loosens up, ideas flow faster, and you hit the quantity needed to strike gold.

That's why screenstorm contains 3 warm-up games that give players 60 seconds to come up with as many ideas as possible, inspired by Guilford's Alternative Uses Task – a test for divergent thinking created by J.P.Guilford.

Here's the problem: staring at a blank page waiting for lightning to strike is a terrible strategy. You need provocations - unexpected combinations, random constraints, lateral triggers that knock your brain out of its usual patterns.

That's what screenstorm games do. They generate inspirational starting points that force fresh thinking. These aren't theory - every game has been battle-tested in real development rooms and have produced pitchable, commissionable ideas. The kind that actually sell!

Now, instead of hunting for the right deck of handmade cards, shuffling through paper prompts, or trying to read your producer's whiteboard scribbles from last month, it's all in your pocket. Clean, instant, ready to spark your next hit show whenever the mood takes you.

That brilliant idea from Tuesday's session? It's no longer scrawled on a Post-it that's now in the bin or forgotten inside a notebook never to be read again. Our logging system captures every idea after each game, so you've got a searchable archive of every thought. Whether you need it in a week or six months later for a different pitch, it's there waiting and ready to be shared with your team via email.