plz pin me

imma fail by watching this next week.

watching this while procrastinating rn

1:14 That's not even sarcasm. That's actually real. I cannot count how many times my flow has been ruined by mom, and then she wonders why I can't focus.

0:44 once companies see that my game has bullets that come out of guns and players that move with WASD, I can basically retire!

This is probably the video of this series I needed the least... I am already a professional failure of time management!

This is definitely a personal attack

exactly what i do, although... you forgot the part where you start playing your own debug build non stop, just jumping around doing nothing.

🐕 look at that funny dog!

Don't need the tutorial, I'm already failing

it's been 2 minutes since I stopped watching blender tutorial, you had to call me out, right?

Was going to refactor my weapons system. Watched this video instead. Now it’s dinner time. On to tomorrow.

I think I already knew most of this, but now I can refer back to this video to make sure I’m not missing anything :)

this was kind of a wake up call, thank you

putting this in my watch later playlist 👍

This is honestly relatable. I find myself failing just like the video says whenever I get burnt out (which isn't all that often thankfully). And the weirdest part is my brain thinking I'm making decent progress still, since I tab into the game engine every now and then and make an NPC or put down some walls. My solution to this is to not work on my game at all on at least 1 day of the weekend, and it honestly feels terrible, but it recharges the game making brain so well. Another thing that helps, though a bit silly, is shouting "NO" in my brain whenever I get distracted and go to open social media. Despite your videos containing no helpful information when taken at face value, I can always get something out of them and I love seeing your uploads pop up in my feed.

I fail at time management even while not being a indie dev

Remember: Every second you spend on social media such as KZfaq is time not spent developing your game. Well done! You deserve to watch another video.

When you want to make a game but then summer holidays end and you forget what you were even making

bro the getting called away as soon as I open the game engine is actually too relatable

2:23 OMG HE ACTUALLY ADDED IT, THE LEGEND

1:40 The laughing was so wholesome.

Renember, the most important thing with many creative endevors is just to work on them consistently, which is why it is vitally important you focus on unwinding and "research" first so that when you finally do get started you will be extra consistent

out of all of your videos, this one has by far called me out the most lol

Time management is what makes and breaks a project next to scope creep I manage my time by dedicating weekday to the project while my art gets weekends.

it makes me sad how muthe i can relate to this. looking up music while coding is a sure fire way to insted lern about autism or finde a vedio on som diffent code that is not at all needed ind your game

I spent multiple months trying to make rope. the rope would have made the best damn potentially good 2D platformer gimmick the worlds ever seen. The problem was that it turns out, there's a reason no one had tried to make a 2D platformer about using complicated rope to do many things: the Rope makes the CPU want to hang itself.

In all seriousness these videos are a great way to learn as if you are doing any of these things you know you went wrong somewhere

Yeah yeah just let me watch one more artindi video before working on my game that will definitely be made at some point

Ah the perfect video for when i have gamedev competition deadline in 2 weeks

You calling me out right now while procrastinating is somehow exactly what I needed to focus

The YandereDev strategy.

this was in my recommended the day it was uploaded, it took me 4 days to get around to watching it ... i'll be great at this!

Thank you so much for making this video :D

This video, down to the details, is me. Checking DMs, being distracted, being called to do something else, "taking a break", it's all literally me

Not an indie dev, but I have all the time in the world so guess when I start working on stuff most? ... 11PM. A lot of times even going into midnight. I need to fix this.

Really solid material, dude! Keep it up!

i swear there's nothing more satisfying than hearing those long ass names being pronounced perfectly and quickly as if it was just casually being mentioned in a conversation

I just love how meta this video is

I can't tell you how much I relate to this, especially the distraction parts. Except instead of game development, it's chores or something.

thank you for still continuing to include the watermelon

Holy shot, this one actually feels like it's calling me out personally. Absolutely fantastic

I literally wake up at 6 am, roll outta bed and straight onto the computer to start work on my stuff and then I'm done a full days work by 2-3 pm (depending on how long I take a lunch break)

Jim Croce reference in the description, nice! Lifelong procrastinator, only way out is to understand yourself. If I'm stuck chewing on a problem, I'll just go do something on autopilot, like dishes when home, or going for a walk at work. If my brain is just too tired for coding, but I want to get some game-dev in, I'll watch GDC talks/conference panels, or read up on business/marketing stuff. If I'm feeling media-social, hang out on Discord and do some networking. (Old!Twitter was actually really good for this 😫) If it's just not gonna be a productive day, no matter what, then just relax 😅 So many folks stress over their body wanting to rest, which just causes themselves more stress 😢

I feel like part of this video's purpose is to just get people to stop wasting time and work on their game, speaking of that I should probably do that!

this just feels like a description of my day.

This is the first time in this whole series that I've felt personally attacked. Good job.

you forgot the part where you download a plugin or app to block your social media, only to turn it off and forget about it instantly

"I mean dont blame me I cant help being awesome 😎"

...tch, dang telepath

Another classic video. I'm in it and I kind of hate you for it. To add to your excellent and familiar list - promising to someone (or yourself) that you'll have it done that evening without having any idea how complex it is!

Ah cool. I'll add this to my watch later playlist

If you guys are on a windows PC, look into having things for game dev run at start up. That way you can jump right into things. Theres also a way to start programs from a schedule as well on Windows

*Saved to watch later playlist

When I was writing my Masters thesis, I intentionally went to stay with my grandma for a few days. I just sat in my room working on my laptop and ate the meals she brought me. I don't think she ever distracted me at all. I loved my gran...

You have an adorable sounding wife. Lucky!

your partner cracking up cracked me up

Lol, you nailed it. I actually laughed out loud.😂😊

By reading the comments, I feel better to know that I am not the only one with these issues. After I am still at school or trying to find an internship because I still don't have the strengh to complety commit myself to my dream game. I should find a way to lock myself in video dev...maybe do some streams and lock myself in it

Amazing and funny :)

The playing games for research trap is real man. Don't let it get you.

yeah this is the part i actually suffer with, this was a painful watch. okay this actually motivated me and im getting back to programming

As a mostly failing indie game dev, when I was working on my ambitious open world project, I spent most of the development time at university lectures, when I was bored. I was coming up with the language the NPCs would speak and with the local TV's logo and jingles. Then I came back home and being happy with the progress, I didn't touch the project.

As a Massachusetts-based procrastinator, I relate hard to the Lake Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg thing

I didn't need to be called out like this-

Watching this while I should study for my exam in 4 days.

Someone needs to show this to Robert Topala Games, he is the best at time management and needs to learn how to fail

Oh my god this series is still going! Wow.

Reminds me of the weather guy saying the name of that Welsh city.

I was expecting this to be about time management games like pikmin

the funny thing is that i have done a few projects and for some accursed reason i will be tabbing out every other second to watch something or check things. it is painfully hard to not get sidetracked doing things. doesn't help that sometimes i will just not work on stuff for weeks due to not liking the idea or path the project is taking. ...how do i even get things done at this point

One trouble i got is that doing a task feels impossible unless i have a vauge roadmap (make this system which'll look kinda like this, manage these connecting pieces, etc) and when i reach any point where i dont know what im supposed to do For Real (eg assets, like what do i do, research is genuinely difficult) it becomes impossible again. Neurodivergence plus some weird trauma in a soup makes one weird brain

I managed to achieve a good flow of time management i make a lot of small projects that only take a couple days so I just sit there making as much as possible until I finish or just can’t go on anymore for that day when running on 2 cups of chocolate milk at 6 am and 2 cups chocolate milk at 11 am energy gets very low near around 3-4 pm and that is when I procrastinate most often just sitting there not feeling like doing anything

I feel personally attacked💀

while watching, i thought how stupid this pixel guy is wasting his time, until i realized the guy wasting his time is me

this is just ADHD in a nutshell

I don’t need this video, i’m already a pro, crushed under stress, 50 unfinished games taking up all of my computer!

this is a personal attack 😭

I feel attacked XD

another reason why that developer needs to organize its thoughts and ideas as well as integrate them into a single product. I say this as a video game developer developing my own game at the moment.

We live in a society where the video doesn’t tell you to overwork yourself

Oooohhhhh... this one hurt me. It's too true.

The way I fail at game development is by having too many ideas, starting them all and never finishing a single one, games, custom maps for other games, music, sprites... Honestly I was so tired of the old cicle I just released a remake of the Ocean View hotel from vice city that I made for another game, the outside was finished but I knew if I were to start working on the interior I would never finish it, so I said "fuck it" and just released it as it was but blocked the walls and windows, people liked it tho.

so relatable

I love how the intro is always slightly different

Im watching this while postponing my art class...

I feel called out

I hate how accurate this is for me xD

My obsessive-compulsive disorder [OCD] makes it hard to apply myself to my game development dreams... it triggers my worst obsession. i have periods of fleeting progress. I'm working really hard to work through it in treatment, now; i feel hollow inside when i avoid it :( need to start again today

But once you start working on your game, you need to remember anytime you aren’t working on your game is time wasted. Family dinner? Nope. Important business meeting? Nope. Grandma’s funeral? Nope. Remind yourself that once you finish your game, you’ll feel rewarded and you’ll be able to do the things you love, like making a game.

Just needed to add a bit how you should spend your time looking up productivity and time management strategies instead of actually working

i am watching this while trying to work on my project, i guess i already succeed at failure.

now you have to pronounce that one welsh town in the next video.

The most important tip of all: spend 100% of your free time working on your game until you're so burnt out you never want to touch a game engine again. Works every time

My subconscious is begging me to be offended by this video.

This is how I worked whenever I was going to study

hopefully this video doesn't end on a cliffhanger. (this is my 30th vid)

This is exactly what I do. Have you been spying on me?

Remember that, if by some crazy odds, you actually end up working on something, make it as meaningless as possible. Just make changes for the sake of change without trying to get to a final product. If you finish, there's a chance you could be successful so it's better to try and avoid finalizing anything.

Getting laid off was the best thing to happen for my solo dev game lol