Thousander Club

#1 Oh Man! You're in the lead by a longshot so far.

Scott's 1000 hours -- 38 as of Feb 6 12:00am.

A couple of other people have reported their hours, too, but they only just got started on their official tallies. See the latest at:

www.lowpolycoop.com/2006/02/monday-morning-polyhacker-feb-6.html

I'm gonna keep track of the total of everyone, too.

Scott

#2 Holy crap. Im wooping you guys. Better catch up.

If anyone wants to talk on MSN. Look me up chrislabombard@hotmail.com

#3 And, for everyone else, it's not too late to join. You can always just make a super-honest guess at January.

Scott

#4 I like the idea of a thousanders club, but my forte is development and design, not graphics.

though I know i'm well over 1000 hrs in that regard, i have only about 500hrs accrued towards game-related development.

it'll be good to keep track of this stuff more closely :)

#5 Jason - I design on the can. Do those hours count too ?

#6 42 hours so far... seems pretty lame really :)

#7 I hope so Chris! maybe i can count my dreams too?

#8 @Jason. Sorry if it sounded like it was graphics-specific. It applies to whatever you want it to, whatever you consider to be actively working on game development in 2006. So far, the numbers have turned out to be less important than the fact that the hours we have counted are turning out to be very productive and effective.

@Chris. Of course that time counts. I would never be able to finish reading a book without that time.

Scott

#9 Lol. I was kidding guys. I don't count thinking time as dev. I only count time when Im being productive... ie. actually coding and not typing at you weirdos.

#10 @ James and Chris. So did I catch that? Are you officially in? Let me know if you want me to post it on my site occasionally -- I'll be continuing to do it every Monday.

#11 Usually I work full time on my projects, between 7-12hrs a day, 5 days a week.

But had 'much busyness' so far this year... approx. 150 hours total.

#12 1000 hours. My initial reaction was "1000 hours is nothing" ... so ... lets get the calculator out and see if I'm just being melodramatic ...

I generally work about 8 hours a day. 1000 hours at 8 hours a day works out at 125 days. I don't work weekends, so excluding those, 125 days is 25 weeks. Thats roughly 6 months. Now, granted, I dont spend every day of every week on one project, so thats a little skewed.

Let's assume then that I'm someone with a full time job and I can only spend four hours a weeknight on my pet project. Since I am now making things up, I will also make up a wife and 5 kids that keep me busy at weekends. Consequentially I can only spend about 2 hours on Saturday and another 2 on Sunday I can't work on the project at all. That makes the 1000 hours take 250 days, which works out at just under 42 weeks. Still got 10 weeks to spare!

It will be interesting to find out whether reality supports the maths.

I am far too lazy to keep track of hours when I don't have to, but just so that I contribute something useful other then idle banter here is an Excel spreadsheet that I use for a time sheet. You might want to remove the payment tracking stuff for this, but its simple: put the date/time you start work in the Clock On column, the date/time you stop work in the Clock Off column. It calculates the hours automatically. If you want a description you can stick that in too. Note that although the spreadsheet is protected, there is no password so you can unprotect it to edit it. I just protect it so that I dont accidentally trash something without noticing.

T.

#13 I just spent some time calculating timelines spent at my project. This is as close as I can get;

1000+ Viking themed research, surfing, reading, movie watching, etc.
1000+ Writing world background and persona stories. (600+ pages, 7 diff. books, 2 series)
0200 Writing Game Design Document Paper.
0040 Writing actual game quest content.
0160 Drawing world, concept art and more.
0300 Modelling objects, characters, buildings, etc.
0190 Coding C++, Torquescript, etc.
0350 Learning nessesary applications, tools and languages.

With the aid from Dreamer & team things are now speeding up a lot. So hopefully there is something to show soon ;o)

*Edit (If your right Chris)
15 Viking themed research, surfing, reading, movie watching, etc.
6 Writing world background and persona stories. (600+ pages, 7 diff. books, 2 series)
2 Writing Game Design Document Paper.
8 Writing actual game quest content.
15 Drawing world, concept art and more.
20 Modelling objects, characters, buildings, etc.
70 Coding C++, Torquescript, etc.
8 Learning nessesary applications, tools and languages.

#14 Tom - You are pretty much right. I calculated what I would reach if I continued at the pace I am, and it's somewhere around 1600, mind you I can't dev for 8 hours a day. I dev roughly 4 a day and squeeze 30 hours out of the odd weekend.

Scott - I don't think I would have created a thread on the topic and reported my hours if I wasn't. ;)

Christian - I think it only counts for time put in this year.

#15 Scott - you bet :)

#16 Christian - How much time do you put in a weekday and weekend?

#17 I have more than 1K hours, no idea how many, but 2 years worth (sometimes 16+ hour days).
'Morning Chris. :)

Ari

#18 Thank god for content packs too!
LOL.

Ari

#19 Ari - It only counts for hours put in for 2006... and seeing as there are only 920 or so hours so far this year, I doubt you have over 1000 ;)

If you guys want to set up a running total for last year Im probably in the 2Thousander club :P

"Good Morning World!" ... wait that's "Hello World!"

#20 "Christian - How much time do you put in a weekday and weekend?"

Normally I start working on my project every day around 17:30 untill 23(or later). Every thursday our local group members meet and we work on it from 17 to 01. And every second weekend is spend on the project.

But this january have not been all projecttime :/