Comments on: What To Do? I’m In The Zone But It’s Midnight

By: merc-ai

merc-ai — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:58:33 +0000

I would give some more time to write down the ideas and thoughts that seem most important and rare (meaning the have smaller chance of showing up in my head), briefly mention some of the less important stuff and then go to sleep.

One thing I really noticed is that at evening, something might seem like awesome idea and great design decision, but in the morning (or few days later) you’ll see all the flaws and problems that come with that idea/design. That means there’s no point in writing it all down to tiny details as soon as the idea visits me.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:42:32 +0000

Nice to hear these comments. The fact is that our baby will wake up around 6-9 and keep everybody up :) (well, sometimes at least).

And I know the next day will be crappy if I feel tired.

Thus… I actually was pleased about my plan. I continued about 27 minutes, and started to feel tired… and end of zone anyway. So, it was good half an hour, and also got enuf sleep.

Best of the both worlds I’d say.

By: MrPhil

MrPhil — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:28:29 +0000

One thing to consider is advise from Ernest Hemingway:
“You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and you know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.”

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:03:21 +0000

Carried on and regretted it the day afterwards. I always do that otherwise I just roll around in bed unable to sleep due to the mental energy and I none of the work is done.

By: guy

guy — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:16:18 +0000

yeah well I agree. I also prefer to work at night. You gotta use your flow and in the night nobody disturbs you(maybe also a reason why we prefer to work at night)?.
But anyone of you having issues with people saying ‘decent people don’t sleep till 11′ or something?

By: hermitC

hermitC — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:03:07 +0000

I’m wondering why writing games works that well at night while it takes some willpower to get it running during the day. Most coders I know personally are night owls.

By: infocyde

infocyde — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:10:27 +0000

++ on the above comment, if you don’t have to get up early, and you don’t have a wife bitch’en at you to go to bed, and you are on a roll in the zone, roll till it peters out man.

By: Pathogen David

Pathogen David — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:58:39 +0000

Unless I NEED to be up in the morning, I just keep on working. Killing your productivity when it is going strong has never ended well for me.

By: Mateo

Mateo — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:40:46 +0000

Does anyone else find that work from home game making completely destroys your regular sleep schedule?

Of course, babies will do that too, but it seems that having a ‘day job’ was the only thing that kept me awake in the mornings. (not that I miss waking up at 5am)

@Juuso – were it me, I would scribble down stuff like a madman. I usually write down game ideas before bed anyway, I find it helps me sleep. (just don’t code! that’ll keep you up) Hope that helps!