This'll be a short post.
I'm taking a break from game development for the month, even though it's killing me to do so. My day job has been really stressful and consequently I haven't had a lot of time to do game development in my free time. This has really sucked, but there's been no way around it and I keep beating myself up about not doing more, but that really doesn't help with my stress levels (and I would like to note here that I feel I am typically quite good at dealing with stress).
I'm feeling burnt out and work isn't going to be less stressful for another month at least, so I'm giving myself permission to not work on game development. In fact, I'm going to force myself not to work on it with the assumption that this break is just for the month of July and that this will help me be more energized to do the work in August.
No small part of me worries that not being able to handle this all at the same time means that I could never make it in the games industry. However, I've been reminding myself that if I were in the games industry, I (probably) wouldn't be working literally all day for six days of the week.
I don't know. Guess this is just another part of my grand experiment. Feeling kind of down this month.
On a positive note, I finished my first playthrough of Analogue: A Hate Story tonight and it was great! Also, I'll have some more things to post about the MSU-1 soon, so hopefully people will look forward to that; especially the people who have been posting in the comments of part 2 of that article series!
((hugs)) Self-care is as important a goal as any when you're trying to be creative.
ReplyDeleteYou've been effectively working 2 full-time jobs. There's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't take a vacation from one of them.
Though maybe... just maybe we'll see you on Mondays? Come, relax, unwind, create weird laser-cat fantasy novels....