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This guide on contract writing could also be a guide on how to write a game design.

Almost every single point applies: Single-topic paragraphs, whitespace, hierarchical bullet points, charts/tables, math examples..

Specifically chapter 7:

@bmdhacks Yes. No metric can capture all the long-term effects of any given change to a product - or even most of the important effects.

@Cataphract RimWorld does lots of that, to help the player tell stories. It's not reported back to us - no need.

Avoiding perverse incentives and data misinterpretation is a decent reason to not put metrics into your game.

Goodhart's Law can't catch you if you don't have the measure in the first place.

Hail the Supreme Gander.

@brazmogu We still use physical paper folders though.

But yes you're right its not the only thing named after obsolete technology, but I was there when podcasts were invented!

Podcasts are named after the iPod, an obsolete technology.

You used to connect your iPod to a computer to download podcasts, then listen to those while out and about.

We still call them podcasts though.

@Banlish I think all the normal healthy body/healthy mind stuff will work.

Exercise, reduce stress, sleep well, avoid drugs.

It's just I've done all that for a long time so I can't say I have personal evidence they work since I've not really been without them. Insomnia kills me though.

@Banlish I exercise, and it's drawing from a different energy well than mental work. However I don't actually find that it gives me *more* mental energy.

That said, I'm always pretty active so maybe it is and it would stop if I stopped. This is just my baseline.

@aideaman1 Not a lot of haters in my life :) It's surprisingly nice. RW community is so chill.

@ckusellagussin Not saying I'm tired now. In fact part of what I'm saying is that you have to pace yourself - I've gotten pretty good at this over the years, so I don't burn myself out.

@Lanceblastoff1 My work capacity is the same, and my mood generally is too.

The nature of the tasks has changed a lot going from working alone and unknown to managing all this. I used to get a lot more pure creative time.

I think these daily limits highlight what working hard really means in practice:

1. Being consistent through many days and years, not short-term intense effort.
2. Allocating effort on the tasks that best move you towards the goal, not on the tasks you enjoy working on. /5

If I switch tasks, I can do about 1.5-2 of those entire things before the whole brain is too tired.

So if I max out 2 tasks, I can't even do gaming afterwards! I have to fall back to really low-brain activities like feed-scrolling. I hate this feeling of mental incapacity. /4

On a good day I can do:
- Gaming 10 hours
- Coding 7 hours
- Reading (interesting book) 5 hours
- Paperwork 5 hours
- Game design 4.5 hours
- Reading (difficult book) 3 hours
- Article/book writing 3 hours
- Article/book editing 2.5 hours /3

The fatigue is task-specific. Each task has its own gas tank, and burns its tank at its own rate. There's also a universal limit.

After years of self-observation, I even know how long I can do specific tasks... /2

I believe in working very hard when you're trying to do something special.

But after a certain amount of effort, willpower is irrelevant. Like an exhausted muscle, the brain just stops working well. I look at the screen and... nothing comes to mind. /1