Awesome video! I am trying to keep going in my own game development hobby. Sometimes I have too much studying going on and I have less free time. But coming back to develop my game gives me a lot of happiness seeing how much I have developed and improved the. game. Rarely I have a feeling of uselessness and that the game will fail but when I push past that feeling it shows how wrong I was.
Glad you're making progress! Finding time to fit in game dev can be tough for sure. I've been trying a different approach to time management recently, maybe I'll make a video on that 🤔
Agreed! My trello board is nothing but small task I can complete in 1 or 2 days and usually those tasks are just broken down pieces from a bigger task. But it’s nice to move something into completed.
Nice! Small tasks are the way :) This is one more reason why I like Linear. I use Cycles (Linear's term for Sprints, though there are differences) and each task in the cycle is small-ish, ideally fully accomplishable within the cycle. I can't put screenshots in here, but you get end-of-cycle reports automatically based on completion, scope increase, etc. If I hit over 80% completion for a cycle I win, otherwise I lose.
I used to go to computer club across the road from my appartment in Saint-Petersburg to work on mods. The admins there graciously allowed me to bypass their computer club gaming shell-thing to work on stuff. It was a lot of fun writing code while everybody around were playing CS and DOTA, glancing at you like "wtf that mofo doing". But then the darn war started, I fled the country, and I haven't been able to force myself to work on my projects ever since. Almost 3 years have passed. I changed day jobs, I make way more money now, but I work extreme hours and I am not happy with my life, to the point I have to go to therapy and take antidepressants. But that god forsaken itch to create, it just doesn't go away, no matter how hard I drink. Have to start from scratch, just do something, anything, as long as it's every day. It seems I just can't be happy, no matter the amount of liquor and drugs I consume, if I don't actually scratch that creative itch. And at the same time, it is so, so hard to make myself do something, it's like I always find some kind of escape, even if it doesn't really work, even if I don't really enjoy it anymore. I've played everything, watched everything, read everything. It's hard to stop to consume and start to create. I kinda hate myself.
If you liked working on projects w/ ppl try replicating that online. Pick one of the major social networks, post about a project you're doing, and talk about it regularly even if it's small. Over time you'll attract a crowd of ppl to work on projects with together. How much progress you actually make on the project right now is less important than getting that crowd of builders around you, which in turn will help you with motivation to keep going. It does work, but it's not necessarily easy.
You get a bit numb to the "reward" over time. Changing up what your reward is can help with that, or doing things like "after X I get Y". I think of it more like a habit forming technique than a 100% solution.
I always respected you, when I saw the Micron03 I understood we can be best friends Small steps and great patience can take everyone far. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Thank you! They really are great pens, I always have a couple at my desk. I use them for occasional sketching and just writing down random sticky ideas/reminders. I probably use my Pilot Metro fountain pen most often. I more or less have it and a small notebook with me everywhere I go. If you're into that kind of thing this is the one I use: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KRPFD5A/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Awesome video! I am trying to keep going in my own game development hobby. Sometimes I have too much studying going on and I have less free time. But coming back to develop my game gives me a lot of happiness seeing how much I have developed and improved the.
game. Rarely I have a feeling of uselessness and that the game will fail but when I push past that feeling it shows how wrong I was.
Glad you're making progress! Finding time to fit in game dev can be tough for sure. I've been trying a different approach to time management recently, maybe I'll make a video on that 🤔
Agreed! My trello board is nothing but small task I can complete in 1 or 2 days and usually those tasks are just broken down pieces from a bigger task. But it’s nice to move something into completed.
Nice! Small tasks are the way :)
This is one more reason why I like Linear. I use Cycles (Linear's term for Sprints, though there are differences) and each task in the cycle is small-ish, ideally fully accomplishable within the cycle. I can't put screenshots in here, but you get end-of-cycle reports automatically based on completion, scope increase, etc. If I hit over 80% completion for a cycle I win, otherwise I lose.
And you know, Journey before Destination
I used to go to computer club across the road from my appartment in Saint-Petersburg to work on mods. The admins there graciously allowed me to bypass their computer club gaming shell-thing to work on stuff. It was a lot of fun writing code while everybody around were playing CS and DOTA, glancing at you like "wtf that mofo doing". But then the darn war started, I fled the country, and I haven't been able to force myself to work on my projects ever since. Almost 3 years have passed. I changed day jobs, I make way more money now, but I work extreme hours and I am not happy with my life, to the point I have to go to therapy and take antidepressants. But that god forsaken itch to create, it just doesn't go away, no matter how hard I drink. Have to start from scratch, just do something, anything, as long as it's every day. It seems I just can't be happy, no matter the amount of liquor and drugs I consume, if I don't actually scratch that creative itch. And at the same time, it is so, so hard to make myself do something, it's like I always find some kind of escape, even if it doesn't really work, even if I don't really enjoy it anymore. I've played everything, watched everything, read everything. It's hard to stop to consume and start to create. I kinda hate myself.
If you liked working on projects w/ ppl try replicating that online. Pick one of the major social networks, post about a project you're doing, and talk about it regularly even if it's small. Over time you'll attract a crowd of ppl to work on projects with together. How much progress you actually make on the project right now is less important than getting that crowd of builders around you, which in turn will help you with motivation to keep going. It does work, but it's not necessarily easy.
The streak thing doesn't work for me at all anymore. I think my brain realized it's fake and just doesn't care about that anymore.
You get a bit numb to the "reward" over time. Changing up what your reward is can help with that, or doing things like "after X I get Y".
I think of it more like a habit forming technique than a 100% solution.
same 🥹
I always respected you, when I saw the Micron03 I understood we can be best friends
Small steps and great patience can take everyone far. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Thank you! They really are great pens, I always have a couple at my desk. I use them for occasional sketching and just writing down random sticky ideas/reminders.
I probably use my Pilot Metro fountain pen most often. I more or less have it and a small notebook with me everywhere I go. If you're into that kind of thing this is the one I use:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KRPFD5A/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1