Finishing my first game while working full-time

Post by vlunkr » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 4:37 PM UTC

sershe wrote: post #106

boplicity wrote: post #34

Not discussed in the article: You have to have the support of the people in your life this will impact. For example, the 7-9am timeslot for working, as listed in the article, will impact my family, as that is when I'm getting the kids up and off to school. OK, so I could move it to 5am to 7am, but that would mean I'd need to go to bed earlier, which eliminates important evening time with my wife. Similarly, I could d…

The meta is that if you add something to your life, and you don't currently have a lot of time when you are just bored, something will have to suffer. I was wondering why I was often stressed out even though my life was good and I mostly did the things I want to do. Years ago, I had 3 things in my life - work, rock climbing, and coding/reading/videogames ("geeking out"), and I was never stressed for time. Then I got…

Post by throwaway2331 » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 4:46 PM UTC

the_only_law wrote: post #36

capableweb wrote: post #19

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> I'd push hard at work for 9 hours a day, eat, then push hard on the side project for 8-9 hours a day, sleep, wake up, and just keep going. One day a week maybe I'd just sleep. No wonder you feel like hell, where is time for people, leisure, exercising and all the other activities that will help you move faster by feeling better? The true optimization for becoming a more efficient person is to do less of the thing y…

This has been my line of thought for a while. You spend a minimum of 8 hours working, and ideally you get 6-8 hours of sleep. Let’s say you have a couple more daily responsibilities that take 2-4 (could be commute, cleaning, some other maintenance). There’s almost no time to do anything, and some of the hours you have left may be at non-prime times of the day. > The true optimization for becoming a more efficient per…

Post by bobobob420 » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 4:56 PM UTC

throwaway2331 wrote: post #113

the_only_law wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has been my line of thought for a while. You spend a minimum of 8 hours working, and ideally you get 6-8 hours of sleep. Let’s say you have a couple more daily responsibilities that take 2-4 (could be commute, cleaning, some other maintenance). There’s almost no time to do anything, and some of the hours you have left may be at non-prime times of the day. > The true optimization for becoming a more efficient per…

One simple trick to exit the labor class; investment banking MDs hate him; "how can one man achieve so much?": Work less, but keep clocking the same amount of hours. A lot easier to do with WFH, but still achievable if you're in an office cubicle. Impossible to do if you work a trade/labor-intensive job.

Post by Zababa » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 5:06 PM UTC

philh wrote: post #103

Zababa wrote: post #54

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I've heard this called before the "4 hour life", you have 4 hours every day for yourself: https://medium.com/@pskallas/4-hour-life-glossary-4740bca641...

This doesn't acknowledge weekends, which if you have the same 8 hours sleep and 4 hours "not for yourself", add more than 50% to the time you supposedly have "for yourself". (4×5 + 12×2 vs 4×7.) Which doesn't necessarily change the point, but I'm not sure what if anything the point is supposed to be, and it seems an important omission.

Post by ffitch » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 5:11 PM UTC

ca6d8815 wrote: post #12

Good tips... but in reality if you're working full-time (especially in a software related role), you may find yourself depleted before you get to the keyboard. It took us 5 years to finish our game (everyone started from 0 knowledge on how to make games, so it was a rocky road), and for the last 1.5-2 years my life was absolute hell. I'd push hard at work for 9 hours a day, eat, then push hard on the side project for…