/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

No, real life hit me and I have to work a shitty job that leaves me with no time for gamedev. And when I come home I am so tired that I fall asleep while trying to program something. I want to kill myself already.

Bad days only happen when you don't create a design document.

Whenever I made progress I get really afraid that i'll die of a blood clot or a stroke or ill choke or someone will kill me

>>22244

do it then.. youre worthless anyway if you "cant make time" for what you like in 21 century

>>22236

figured out and implemented pathfinding and collision detection in one weekend

"holy shit they actually really walk around the house and not through it.. fuck meeeeeee this is so cool !!!"

I still cant believe it, Im expecting something will fuck up badly any time soon

feels good tho

>>22247

Worry about your backups instead. So many promising projects going under due to "my hard drive broke lol".

>have trouble with something for several days

>wake up one day, implement incredibly simple solution that just works

better than sex

>>22236

I am undecided on whether I should pursue game development. I can easily just download Unity or Unreal, but real life and family shit has left me with little time.

Good thing is I'm working on improving my mental and physical health so I will be in a better state of mind if I ever start.

>>24227

TBH If you can't be arsed downloading Unreal or Unity, you won't be arsed to deal with the many problems that come up when devving.

If you're into it, you gotta be into it. I mean I'm somewhat casual about it but it's not entirely riding a bike

>>24235

I find that the best way to work is in strong bursts with long rest time inbetween. So solving two problems in one day of concentrated work, then having a day or two where I take care of RL things. If I sat down on the next day after doing some big things I would probably not get anything done at all. Maybe it's just because I'm a beginner and there's information overload every time I go in or maybe there's more to it. The brain is like a muscle after all. You wouldn't train hard every day of the week (natty).

>>24236

I hear you actually I'm much the same. This week I had 4 days where I just pounded out decent work like a madman, but now I feel completely tapped and need a break.

My only point was that game dev don't care about your work preferences, it likes to throw problems at you when it feels like it, even if that happens to be 2 minutes before you were about to go to bed but everything suddenly stopped working for no reason. You could go to bed, but then you'll forget where you were tomorrow and itll take you longer to sort this mess out..

That stuff happens.

Anyway you should just download an editor and give it a shot. Follow a youtube video to get the foundations of whatever type of game you want to make in place

>>24259

Ha, random dev anecdote that you're the best audience for:

The other day I had a control glitch where clicking somewhere on/in the editor window while in "play" mode would bring in a boatload of projectiles on the next frame when clicking back on the game window, proportionate to how long you held the mouse button outside. Any way, the button I was using to fire was right click and I accidentally deleted my "Scripts" folder which was 90% of my work in that project. CTRL Z would not bring it back. Reloading the project would not bring it back. Never right click in windowed mode.

Twist: The day before I had made a backup of my project files for only the second time ever. I lost NOTHING. Backups after every productive day from now on.

>even if that happens to be 2 minutes before you were about to go to bed but everything suddenly stopped working for no reason

Yup, that's what I meant with strong bursts. If you attempt something you must brace for the consequences and stick with it before you forget the previous step. But then I need rest or I will get stressed out and give up prematurely in the next session.

>Anyway you should just download an editor and give it a shot.

This part must be directed at the other anon you were talking to, >>24227

>>24236

im not really sure if thats how the brain works

and if it is, we should tell /fit/, most of them are skipping brain day

>>24283

Well, it's how MY brain works. As I stated every one of those sessions is information overload. I spend more time reading vague instructions than actually writing code or tweaking some values. Art fags (like someone who builds levels out of pieces made for them by someone more technically skilled) surely don't need much rest. But I'm trying to stop being an art fag. When I "develop" I'm learning new, complex things non-stop and I've never excelled at rote memorization. If I kept going the next day I wouldn't see the forest for the trees.

>>24285

then Id say I have it different

when Im doing something big, I have to keep working without long pauses so that I dont forget all the mechanics and parts of the project and how they work together

if I stop mid-work, I have to go through all the stuff again to know whats exactly going on and what do I have to do next

>>24300

Proof of importance of design docs.

Map out all your classes and interactions as you make and change them. Helps so much.

>>24189

I've moved to AWS codecommit, its usually free and when its not its $1 per user per repo, way cheaper than github, and its a nice backed up remote and secure store.

>>22236

> trying to rig graphics composition options for fast fake lighting

> screw up and accidentally create an awesome motion blur effect

well fuck me!

>>24362

If Google doesn't bother you, install Drive to desktop to autobackup all file changes.

Uses a lil mem though so maybe set it to run once a day.

You can also use a basic batch script to do this, and set it to run once a day but with onedrive

net use X: https://d.docs.live.net/(yourOneDriveID)/ /user:userd password

(tar, gzip, encrypt with tools you desire)

Final file could use %DATE:/=-% %TIME::=.% as a crude timestamp

(copy file to X:)

net use X: /delete