I semi-consistently wake up at 4 AM (EDT) and I leave for my full-time job at 10 AM.
I have 2 hours of self-care and then 4 hours of uninterrupted Monkanics development time. It’s super chill.
I then get home at 8 PM, chill for an hour or 2, then go to bed.
Has anyone else tried waking up earlier to do game development first, instead of after work? Because my best focus is in the morning and I do NOT want to program netcode after an 8-hour shift.
It also helps that I only need 6-7 (don’t you dare say it!) hours of sleep for the full day.
Yes, I do that too. I take an hour in the morning for coffee, journaling, etc. Then program in the morning. I also program in the afternoons, but morning is better. Most evenings I try to take a break from programming and do something else. Weekends I mix it up and do social things in the mornings.
I really wish I could do that during the week. I’m sure I’d be more productive then if not for the fact that when I have to be somewhere at a specific time (work, appointment, etc) I tend to dwell on the time. It’s a feeling I hate and find really distracting, so I tend to be out the door within half an hour of waking up. Haha
I had to change my habits a LOT. Which means I try to go to bed at 10pm, and I wake up at 6:30am most mornings. That’s the only way I have the time. But that’s when I’m most rested. And I go to the kitchen and journal, etc. so I am not tempted to sit down at my computer desk and start coding.
It depends on the day. When I’m working on plugins, I often go 12-16 hours and have to make myself go to bed. If I’m deep in code, I really enjoy it. When I’m in a game jam I often work WAY too much.
I always prefered idea of efficient work over more time, maybe because i don’t have much time myself, but ik that you can do 3x more in the same amount of time, as long as you work on something daily, and implement stuff like task lists, learning a lot about engine, keeping healthy lifestyle in order to improve mental power or depending on lenghten motivation over habits (complex stuff, i won’t explain it here) so if you want to work more, you can try inventing such tactics, it’s all individual tho so you need to work a little to see what helps and what not
I’ve been fighting that battle for years. I’m naturally both a night owl and a morning person. Last night (or rather this morning) I went to bed at 2am.. still woke up at 6am. Not healthy, I know.
I do better when I’m reading a good book in the evenings. Right now I’m trying to get through a not-so-good book.
Should I become a morning person now? I’m more of a code-at-noon-till-evening kinda guy. I’m almost never awake for the morning lol.
As of my knowledge, only people who live under a rock say that these days. Then again, I have as much knowledge as someone who doesn’t have a lot of knowledge, sooooo….
I find the same - I’m most productive before 10am when I get up early (and after 10pm when I stay up late, which sadly isn’t really compatible with getting up early >_< ).
When things are “normal,” I usually wake up around 4am without an alarm, so that suits me fine.
Edit: But game development is my work, so I also don’t have to balance things around a commute and an unrelated day job.
Not healthy, I know.