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#1 sounds familiar
those symptoms are dangerous as sooner or later
it leads to exhaustion and might not end up the way you tought

lets say you work a whole year on something
day/ night - all your free time
and it ends up bad
- that is a neckbreaker
happend to me last year
where i was supposed to work on a future mobile title
and i did worked on it
gave my best until suddenly i cracked and run with my head thru the project lead wall - result was i lost the gig and all the stuff i made
ended up being worthless
that was especially hard since it pretty much was compareable to AAA

now months after when looking back at it
ic my faults and i understand that when its best to just shut up and not suggest things to your Project Lead
ofc this doesnt fit in your case Nils
but sooner or late you might just end up with more ppl on board
and leading - following are really two totally different pairs of shoes

another thing i realized it is really best to just shut up
and not tell other ppl
- hey ye am working on a game
- i did that great model, sadly cant show you but its gonna be in a future game
- bla bla
---- so what i want to say with this is
avoid telling the normal humans^^ what you are doing
mainly because they do not understand the passion you have
for something that is so trivial in their eyes

others might even look at you like
someone who is not able to grow up
or
isnt able to stop dreaming

many many things like those
so yes you should really avoid talking about it
it is more harm then good for you and your project

so when is the time right you might
ask
well - realease a demo then you can talk about it but even then
the ppl you talk to in real life arent those that will buy your game
/ assets or whatever
these ppl are not even interested in games
as the majority of ppl still look at games
in the way that games are just for children

now another thing that might happen is
gettin sick
ofc that happend too last year
being so focused on the work
i didnt even realized that i was sick
so by the end of the year i was under medication for 3months - antibiotica
hope that all gives you some insight
in things that can happend but dont have to
cheers

#2

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Hi, my name is Nils and I think I'm addicted to developing games.

I'm Steve, it's been 3 hours since my last coding - I've found alcohol helps take my mind of it ...


I loled good and hard! XD

#3 I know I think about my game all the time at work, driving, shopping the only time I don't is at the gym where my other passion is.

But then I get home and I got more work to do and hardly get any time for it anymore :-(. Need to free up some time.

When you talk to people it often is seen as a childish thing to many, but really I think its because they are jealous they had to stop having fun.

Some people seem to think because its a game it must be easy and that their accounting software is properly the pinnacle of software development.

Same thing I find with bodybuilding, the stupid conversations you get in with that too (Why can't you do this that? eat this that? How much can ya bench? I used to bench '200kg' :-/ please DON'T DO IT!)... Better to just pretend you know nothing and don't want to talk about anything your interested in.

Though you never know you may meet that fantastic artist/programmer to work with you... Kind of like a dream of winning the lotto.

#4 @J0linar; That's a real story you posted there. Thank you for sharing with us. Things like getting sick and all are clear signs you indeed better not should ignore. I personally crossed my boundaries twice and think I learned from that pretty well. For me is a some sarcasm once in a while helpful to ease things a bit. I also posted some footage on Facebook to share with family and friends a couple of days ago. Seeing the positive comments likes I believe it's a good way to gain the trust and respect from the people close to you. Keep the faith brother!

@Steve; Thank you for sharing with us. It's good to have a veteran like you on board. Intoxication can indeed be a relief for this matter. Of course I wouldn't encourage it to other group members.

@Edward; I whish I share your passion for the gym. I'm sure you'll find the people you want to work with eventually. You made a point with being jealous because they stopped having fun. Thanks for sharing this with the group.

#5 I'm Ron. I have a game development addiction. I also suffer from an acute case of adult attention deficit disorder. Seriously though, I spend nearly every waking hour scripting, coding, modeling. I have a serious LCD tan goin on. (seriously... look at my avatar pic... that's full color!) Problem is, I love every minute of it.

Ron

#6 To show how addicted I am - I thought you meant "Game Developers' Association" by GDA... and yes, I was a card-carrying member for a while (of the International Game Developers' Association, that is).

#7 heh... I have those cards as well, in addition to paying for the right to carry them.... I currently hold BOTH cards and I initially looked at this post because of the GDA tag.... :-) By the way, this is yet ANOTHER great thing about this community, many of us disagree at times but at our heart, we all have similar goals and thoughts.

Ron

#8 @Ron; that's very good... you show a lot of light reflection...uh I mean self-reflection! We welcome you with open screens... uuhh I mean arms in this group.

@Richard; You started with acknowledging you're addicted. That's a good thing! You were referring to IDGA. There are many ways to come here, we all have the same reason. Do you want to share some more to the group beside you were a card-carrying member of IDGA?

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Go on...

#9 I noticed in my daily life, beside the processes, it can use up all the free RAM in my system.
A few days ago at an airport I bumped into this:



Just before that moment I was thinking about how to improve a material (stainless steel)
and instantly I thought about 2 other things:

First about @Richard and worried if I maybe was a bit to harsh on him a few days before.
That stayed a couple of days;

Second, I didn't have any working ladders in my game :-O !!!
The second issue is still consuming RAM, hoping there will be a moment to make a process out of it.

#10 You bumped into that at the airport - even after they put a "Beware of Collision" warning on it....

@Nils - don't worry about it, I'm old enough to leave my feelings at the door... lol - and I can't really think of anything you said that would qualify anyway. All just discussion, and fairly constructive at that.

Daily on my drive to and from work I fantasize about making a Car Wars-style freeway combat game....