![]() ![]() Relaxing and socialising is where the effort needs to go, and is required so that you don’t feel like throwing away an amazing job because you forgot to leave your house for a few days in a row. I guess the hardest truth about working from home is at least for me it was less effort to do work, but it was more effort to go out and live my life. At first I didn’t used to go out much, so despite having literally my dream job, this did not hit me at first as I felt like I had no one to celebrate it with. I also have to keep reminding myself of the advantages of working from home for anyone who wants to try it: I can listen to my own music when I’m stressed, literally get up and go for a walk when something is broken and try again after, and the house canteen is pretty good too! Just don’t get lonely, it is the worst thing you can do to yourself. I don’t want that to become an obsession in of itself, it was just useful at first to see whether I was doing enough to be healthy and then adjust from there. I also started logging how often I exercise and go out, though this is only temporary. Once I made myself a work schedule and explained to Arthur about the need to have some flexibility in order to organise my own life, it felt like I had much more free-time and less stress again, despite the fact that I was doing the same (sometimes more) actual work hours. My advice to anyone working in this situation is to set yourself a schedule and don’t end up with Millennial Burnout. Today? Your brain tells you there’s no excuse to ever stop working, ever! This is what leads to the feeling of never being away from work, especially when you work in your own bedroom like I do. In the old days you had general physical limitations to stop you working. This gave me the confidence to keep trying, even if it meant moving on and coming back to a problem.Įssentially, due to the fact that the internet makes us always connected to the world, and so much of our career can depend on our internet presence (I was discovered and hired through this very blog), we can feel like we are always exposed and always in the need to work. But it had another advantage as well, which was knowing I had the rest of the day to solve problems before he would come online. It doesn’t help if I’m genuinely stuck and not able to progress, but 99% of the time it forced me to find ways to progress. By being on my own most hours, I was forced to figure out problems on my own. I, being nervous and lost at first, probably would not have found my independence as quickly had I of been working at the same time as him. We actually found that this works well, particularly in the early days. Due to the time zone difference, our meetings usually start in the evenings. I work from home in the UK, and Arthur is based in Las Vegas. I felt this tutorial may have been a little too needy on specific actions being taken, but it was the only way to ensure that it would all work in the end. It’s quite a complicated system in the game, as it requires a lot of specific pieces to be built and connected together. The trickiest one to design was the baggage tutorial. Note that the last two tutorials were added later as new features were added into the game. I had never used Unity before I had barely looked at the massive existing code base yet I needed to get my head together to create a user interface and start programming objectives. ![]() Within 3 days of starting my new job, I was already beginning to program the tutorial. My first job was to design and implement the tutorial that was recently released! The tutorial with helpful side graphics. And I got my dream job! Month 1: The Tutorial What I needed was a job in a small indie games studio, working on a tycoon genre game, coding in C#, where I could stay at home, there’d be no face to face interview, and I’d have creative input. And there weren’t many other opportunities like it. Shortly after, I had a bad interview for a software development job in my local city, where I outright failed the interview tests! Hurt from my 2-out-of-12 score in the interview test, I was lost. I still don’t know if LVGameDev stands for Love Games Development, or Las Vegas Games Development, but both names could work!įresh out of University with a degree in Computer Science with Games Development, I was ready to get into work. We live chat every weekday, discussing things I’ve broken (whoops) or new ideas to improve the game. The team is small but passionate and absolutely fantastic to work with. It is based in Las Vegas and ran by Arthur. I’m a contract game-play programmer and designer on Sim Airport, working for LVGameDev. ![]()
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