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I know this feel bro! ;)
I wish I could explain to my wife that when she walks in while I am working and asks if I can do something else, this mental intertia explains why I don't just happily drop everything and do it right then!
I think that those of us who work primarily in thought-based work feel this a lot. If you've never done intense thinking over a long period of time, it just doesn't register that this can happen. In the same way that people can't understand how you can be exhausted after sitting down at a desk all day.
Fun!
Commented Apr 16, 2013 on Mental Inertia at Only a Game
Mental Inertia
It troubles me how often I am derailed by my mental inertia. As long as my mind is building up steam on a single track, I can develop an endless capacity to apply myself to charging down that route. But ask me to change track, and suddenly all my head of steam is squandered and my figurative e...
You know you can turn off the google-inserted crap right?
Commented Jan 15, 2013 on Blogs vs. Social Media at Only a Game
Blogs vs. Social Media
When I first started Only a Game, over seven years ago, it was something I did in the morning. Work was only intermittently hectic at the time, and my wife left for her job in the hospital very early in the morning - I could afford to spend a couple of hours every morning writing whatever I th...
I work as a developer full time from home (www.youneedabudget.com - blatant plug, but it's awesome!), and I've got three kids - two at school and one still at home.
I've found getting a good pair of noise cancelling headphones can help, as it prevents the constant little noises kids make as they play/walk around/whatever from pulling you away from the screen. It's not perfect, but for a few hundred dollars, it can make a big difference in getting stuff done.
Also, you can shut the office door for a period at a time, and teach them that when the door is shut, they stay out. Then do half-hour blocks of work, and pop out for five minutes or so after each, so they know they haven't been abandoned :)
Commented Feb 7, 2012 on How Do Stay At Home Dads Get Any Coding Done? at Happion Labs GameDevBlog
How Do Stay At Home Dads Get Any Coding Done?
So lately I've been juggling being a stay at home dad, teaching at DigiPen, and making games. Not surprisingly, my game-making productivity is a lot lower than I'm used to. Kids tend to interrupt your train of thought often and unpredictably, and we all know that coding requires large blocks of ...
Chris, check out "Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon" (here http://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=3403 )
It uses a system called 'drama stars', which you accumulate over time, and can use for all sorts of bonuses. BUT, if you reload a saved game, they are reduced back to 0, and you start collecting them again. This encourages you to keep going instead of reloading, but at the same time it also encourages you to use them, rather than hoarding them, as they are purely a temporary resource.
Commented Jan 18, 2012 on No Reload Bonus at ihobo
No Reload Bonus
How would gameplay be altered if the player received a bonus for not reloading the game? Although I’ve worked on more than forty published game projects, my career as a game designer has been littered with intriguing ideas that I was never quite able to get into a finished game. Many of those th...
Hi Chris,
I recently read through the book God's Undertaker by John Lennox and it brought to mind a lot of what I've read on your site over the past few years.
It seems to hit this topic pretty square on, and you might appreciate it.
Cheers!
Commented Jun 2, 2011 on The Summer of Evolutionary Mythology at Only a Game
The Summer of Evolutionary Mythology
Continuing the Fiction Campaign, this Summer I’ll be exploring the collision between orthodox science fiction and religious mythology in the context of evolution. Two years ago, I explored the metaphorical elements of evolutionary theories in the Myths of Evolution serial, and I’m pleased to say...
Congratulations!
Babies are God's best invention!
It's a whole new game now :)
-Ian
Commented Dec 2, 2010 on Family Level Up! New Baby Unlocked at Only a Game
Family Level Up! New Baby Unlocked
My wife and I have finally collected enough experience points to add a new member to the party; the upgrade should be complete sometime around 31st January 2011. The new kid (a boy, if the sonographer is correct) is already practicing his martial arts by kicking the hell out of my wife's belly...
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