{"id":553,"date":"2019-12-04T16:06:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=553"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:06:32","slug":"getting-my-act-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2019\/12\/04\/getting-my-act-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting my act together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, after looking at what the hive mind is doing on #100daysofgamedev &#8211; I&#8217;ve been re-evaluating my random, throw crap at the wall approach to working on my game and decided that its not pushing me in all the directions I need to go. I&#8217;m lacking in organization and need some serious scheduling to keep me on track and focusing on <strong>ALL <\/strong>aspects of making a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Including the stuff I think sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After watching this incredible GDC lecture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No Time, No Budget, No Problem: Finishing The First Tree\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g5f7yixtQPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I immediately realized that I was sorely behind in several key areas of both development and marketing myself and my game. I really should watch that video each and every morning over my 1st cup o&#8217; coffee&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I decided something needed to be done. Something a little more concrete than just using my tablet monitor for Microsoft Whiteboard (which <em>has <\/em>been a handy place to jot notes) and have something physical; staring me in the face to remind me of what still needs to be done, AND force myself to work on those aspects I had been neglecting. So &#8211; I found an old corkboard down in the basement and hung it adjacent to my desk; I marked out 7 sections representing the days of the week and marked them as such:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>MARKETING MONDAY &#8211; research shows \/ money \/ opportunities to apply to.<\/li><li>TECH TUESDAY &#8211;  make backups  \/ clean project \/ optimize game, assets, FSMs<\/li><li>WRITING WEDNESDAY &#8211; write blogposts, applications for opportunites<\/li><li>TEXTURE THURSDAY &#8211; make assets \/ levels for the game<\/li><li>FREE FOR ALL FRIDAY &#8211; whatever I damn well want to do<\/li><li>SCREENSHOT SATURDAY &#8211; capture images \/ video \/ gifs for Wed. posts and Sat. sharing online<\/li><li>SUNDAY &#8211; Day &#8216;o Rest. Work if I want to; don&#8217;t stress if I don&#8217;t<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the aforementioned useful stuff &#8211; I found this really cool link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/comments\/e48oro\/lucasarts_room_design_document_blank_pdf_download\/\">LucasArts Room Design document<\/a> and immediately grabbed a blank one to start with my &#8216;mapping out my game&#8217; ideas, a quick way to organize and get all the ideas together in one spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that as long as I dedicate at least ONE hour towards these tasks per designated day; I&#8217;ll start to see progress in the areas I feel I&#8217;m lagging behind in. Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after looking at what the hive mind is doing on #100daysofgamedev &#8211; I&#8217;ve been re-evaluating my random, throw crap at the wall approach to working on my game and decided that its not pushing me in all the directions I need to go. I&#8217;m lacking in organization and need some serious scheduling to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2019\/12\/04\/getting-my-act-together\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting my act together<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}