Max working on 4 hours sleep again?
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Join Date: 2003-04-10 Member: 15371Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Playtester
Join Date: 2003-04-10 Member: 15371Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Playtester
Things are being accepted to the tracker only about 4/5 hours after work stopped last night.
I know there are guys working around the world but I thought final acceptance to the build stream was signed off by Max.
If that's true then the guy is pulling major hours again, lets hope he doesn't make himself ill. :/
I know there are guys working around the world but I thought final acceptance to the build stream was signed off by Max.
If that's true then the guy is pulling major hours again, lets hope he doesn't make himself ill. :/
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Yes, and we're LOVIN it.
all i can say is, Max and rest of UWE, don't kill yourselves to please the community.
do what you gotta do to release your game, but don't get too affected by impatient people who can't wait for progress.
Edit: Here: <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?act=findpost&hl=&pid=1792554" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...amp;pid=1792554</a>
It'd be good to follow a strict work schedule. Maybe you guys don't do it that way and like to keep things like that flexible -- that's cool -- I'd work there, lol. I much prefer coming in early and going all-out for 8 hours...then go home. I seem to get more done that way and have time for life-stuff. Milling about during the day is the worst thing I can do.
<a href="http://xkcd.com/303/" target="_blank">http://xkcd.com/303/</a>
Staying up late and working is never a good thing in my experience. I know you guys don't want to disappoint and feel responsible for getting work done when you say you will...but we all know easier to make mistakes when you're tired. I've written and done a lot of things that made no sense because of that :P.
As a funny aside: sleep deprivation is not good. Sometime last year I pulled an all-nighter (playing games of course...used to do it all the time...but now...) and then the next evening I went to a furniture store with my girlfriend. Man, they aren't kidding when they say sleep deprivation can make a person seem drunk. That's what it felt like, and according to her, that's what it looked like. Good thing they had all those beds and couches for me to lay on at the store -- yeah...we left and she wasn't pleased. I didn't care of course (like a drunk).
Crunch mode is common in game programming, in fact at some places (E*cough*A) it's pretty much S.O.P. to the extent that programmers burn out and turn their back on the whole industry.
Stating concern is not the same as patronising, if I was telling him how to regulate his sleep pattens and what times of day he should / shouldn't be working THEN I would be patronising him. (and a hypocrite as I am work some very odd hours myself)
<!--quoteo(post=1832608:date=Feb 16 2011, 11:56 AM:name=Enceladus)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Enceladus @ Feb 16 2011, 11:56 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1832608"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If you're worried about the 4 hours, what would you say if you knew they worked through last weekend..<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just ouch.
<!--quoteo(post=1832609:date=Feb 16 2011, 12:02 PM:name=rhez)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rhez @ Feb 16 2011, 12:02 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1832609"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I'm pretty sure accepted means it's been tested by playtesters.
Edit: Here: <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?act=findpost&hl=&pid=1792554" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...amp;pid=1792554</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I was just going by this post by him: <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=1832189" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...amp;pid=1832189</a>
in which he says he signs off the tracker.
The work could have been competed some time ago but then has to be tested *THEN* signed off, makes sense that he rather then the tester has the final say to it being committed.
Edit - IIRC he commented that something along the lines of being on his 4th illness on the xmas pre beta crunch they pulled.
I want to see the game done as fast as the next guy but not if they are going to kill themselves in the process.
2nd edit - Max has posted now anyhow, seems the testers can sign off the changes then. ;)
"people who drive after being awake for 17 to 19 hours performed worse than those with a blood alcohol level of .05 percent"
It starts kind of slowish. Gets better and better.
<!--QuoteBegin-qroach+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (qroach)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I'll see if I can remember anymore, to be honest there's lost of odd stories. At least two stories where someone in the office went crazy from overtime. One of them bought a grand piano (without knowing how to play) and another took all the toys in the office early one morning, went into the stairwell, and proceeded to light them on fire. yeah, he thought they were evil.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
^ + minimal changes = ns? :D
Hivemind needs to learn how to laugh, only the aliens themselves can right now :(
Love the Topgear reference. ^^
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->QUOTE (Sops @ Feb 17 2011, 05:28 AM)
Would be cool to hear a faint chuckle come from the hives when a command station is destroyed.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Or a sigh if a Command Station is recycled while being attacked.
Actually it's a relatively common problem in the games industry.
Most of my lecturers at uni have stories of having to make people go home because they didn't leave the office for several days or something.
Game developers are often kind of insane I think, really good, but also really crazy given the amount they work to meet deadlines and things.
Hell yeah! +1
I first misread this as, "I was home by 10 PM, but Sgt. Barlow had cooked up... a nice home-cooked meal that was hot and ready for me when I got there."
i'm sure somewhere a giddy fangirl is writing up that slash fic at this very moment.
/me shudders
+1