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How much time do you guys split between deving and gaming? Nodev 04/18/20 (Sat) 23:20:11 475454 No.34332

Genuinely curious. I'm in a trap. Every game feels like a huge waste of time, but at the same time I am feeling some burnout and need to relax. Playing games seems like it'd be a good way to re-ignite my passion, but I can't even pick them up anymore. Is anyone else suffering this problem?

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Nodev 04/19/20 (Sun) 07:33:57 c673f1 No.34333

>>34332

Sounds like you need a brief break from both. Also sounds like you might have scope creep with whatever game you're making. Keep it simple and short enough that you can finish it in a month. Then expand on it.

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Nodev 04/19/20 (Sun) 15:14:38 e388e4 No.34335

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I go through big phases. For example, last year was something like 5 months deving, 4 months gaming, 3 months deving. During that 4 months I played the hell out of a number of games, mostly KSP. It also largely coincided with 8ch being down.

This year has been solid deving so far.

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Nodev 04/24/20 (Fri) 05:04:34 62e5d6 No.34344

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>>34333

Go big or go home. I never got burned out like this when I didn't have to give up 40 hours of my weekly time and energy.

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Nodev 04/24/20 (Fri) 05:06:30 62e5d6 No.34345

>>34335

I like how you keep track of your relax time and dev time. I was trying to do the same, but I had a huge hole in my productivity because I was trying to shuffle my life around so I could work part time. Failed.

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Nodev 12/17/20 (Thu) 15:13:30 c0d19f No.34395

"Gaming" is a manchildren hobby that serves only one purpose: to get you dopamine addicted on (((product))).

Deving has a pass because it serves a creative purpose. There is no reason to play games. Make them instead and earn money from other suckers' addiction to them.

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Thanks Curious 02/20/21 (Sat) 20:35:07 6dfea4 No.34398

Thank you very much guys. Appreciated your gaming post.

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Nodev 04/20/21 (Tue) 12:46:29 f4ef7e No.34401

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>>34335

That's your chart? Haha nice I like this kind of autistic time management. I should probably start doing it, right now I just use my Github calendar thing

Before the pandemic I had a routine where I'd go out for about 4-5 hours on my laptop after waking up and basically just dev. Between that and eating it'd generally be late afternoon when I got back home. Then I'd go home and try to do some other creativity thing like watch an anime episode or something. Then the pandemic fucked me up because I was used to doing things outside so study and gaming took up all my time.

Right now I'm just getting back into a good routine. Wake up early around 8am, do morning shit for 1-2 hours, go out for 4-5 hours to dev, then a couple hours of studies, then go home and fuck around or go to work. Seems to work for me. For some reason I basically haven't gamed at all this past week, it seems to come in phases like with >>34335. I think I kinda gamed myself out through the pandemic so I'm good for a while. I was just playing shitty timesink stuff like Rome 2 anyway. I know gaming shouldn't feel like work but I'm more proud of the times when I made structured decisions about my gaming, like playing through all of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark over a couple months. I think I'll get back into that and maybe start doing that in the afternoons when I get back from devving and studies. Like just pick 2-3 games and just focus on those instead of having 100 Steam games installed.

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Nodev 05/19/21 (Wed) 09:08:56 55462e No.34409

>>34344

lol. Enjoy your nodev

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