Cardia on 15/12/2014 at 22:35
This question probably has been placed, but anyway i thought it would be important to ask this since i´ve been feeling lately mentally exhausted , i´m working intensely on Dromed like never before, it goes around 3 hours a day, and before i was no more than 2 hours a day working on Dromed. what you guys recommend me, should i make breaks, reduce the hours per day? because my brain feels like a flickering light with ups and downs. anyone felt this before? I´m not seeing what else might have cause this, i know i drink a little bit too much wine sometimes but never in a way to get drunk, i don´t know, lack of love?sex?
Mofleaker on 15/12/2014 at 22:43
Like any hobby, if you treat it like a job with daily quotas you're going to find yourself hating it more and more each day.
Sometimes I get new ideas, which in turn get me excited to implement them. So I boot it up for however long when that happens. I dromed when I WANT to dromed. And if you don't find that inspiration, maybe it's time to take an extended break.
Though I haven't actually released anything yet, so take my advice with a grain of salt :laff:
Cardia on 15/12/2014 at 22:51
Quote Posted by Mofleaker
Like any hobby, if you treat it like a job with daily quotas you're going to find yourself hating it more and more each day.
Sometimes I get new ideas, which in turn get me excited to implement them. So I boot it up for however long when that happens. I dromed when I WANT to dromed. And if you don't find that inspiration, maybe it's time to take an extended break.
Though I haven't actually released anything yet, so take my advice with a grain of salt :laff:
I work it as a hobby, although sometimes i confess i do it for routine, as for the inspiration i never get my hand to dromed without first drawing scecthes with what i plan to build. And i´m don´t imagine myself working on dromed and improvise things i want to build. i have this maps in draws which i project them to dromed, but many times the result never gets to be exactly the same as i have in my draws, either because it dones´t work or because i remember to add other shapes.
LarryG on 16/12/2014 at 01:05
25 -30 hours per day. I can't work more than that as I have a full-time job.
darthsLair on 16/12/2014 at 01:11
Quote Posted by LarryG
25 -30 hours per day. I can't work more than that as I have a full-time job.
Thats cool! My general rule for hobbies is, do what you feel like, and if it feels good then do it. If you feel overwhelmed, it is probably time for a vacation away from Dromzilla. The beast can represent never ending dreams of pure hell.
Cardia on 16/12/2014 at 11:46
Quote Posted by darthsLair
Thats cool! My general rule for hobbies is, do what you feel like, and if it feels good then do it. If you feel overwhelmed, it is probably time for a vacation away from Dromzilla. The beast can represent never ending dreams of pure hell.
I´m feeling better today, even if i still feel a bit this weakness. Yes Dromed can be really addicting specially when the project is something ambitious. i don´t work 3 hours without breaks in between , usually i do morning after breakfast, then after lunch and then after dinner, i guess i could say i use dromed as a digest time.
john9818a on 17/12/2014 at 09:10
Quote Posted by LarryG
25 -30 hours per day. I can't work more than that as I have a full-time job.
I need some of your days Larry! :joke: Sometimes there aren't enough hours in the day.
On days that I work I might spend 3 hours working on my mission but only if I have something in mind to implement. On my days off I can work maybe 12 hours but interspersed with watching dvd tv shows or playing with the cat.
Eternauta on 17/12/2014 at 16:35
1-2 hours per day, physically. 24 hours with my mind!! :)
Random_Taffer on 17/12/2014 at 17:35
It depends what I'm working on, but I tend to work in spurts. Right now I've been working on my contest mission for at least 2-3 hours a night after my wife and kid go to sleep. More if I can help it. Since I almost never plan much outside of Dromed time, it usually takes me a bit longer to build and get the look just right. Even if I do sketch an idea it almost never actually ends up looking similar in game.
If there's not a contest going on, I may go weeks or months without touching DromEd at all. Then suddenly inspiration will hit and I'll spend all my free time for several days dromeding. Russ and I finished Cell 6 from start to finish in something like 27 days. Betatesting included I believe.
Yandros on 17/12/2014 at 20:17
It was more like 5 weeks, but yeah, it was a really intense and creative 5 weeks running full-throttle. Lucky I had a down week in there somewhere to devote like 8 hours a day to it.
On average I Dromed an hour or two in the evenings. On weekends, sometimes another hour or two in the morning before I get busy with family stuff. Between the job and family I don't have much more time than that typically. Sometimes I go weeks without touching it too, like after reaching a milestone in testing on DCE or submitting a contest entry.
