TynanSylvester

@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

@jason_metcalfe @RimWorldConsole should get the message :)

@sleepyfoxella I wasn't aware of that, sorry! We'll take a look.

@ShazamHam It's part of the Ideology expansion, which wasn't finished when they planned out the console edition, so doesn't (so far) exist in the Console Edition.

@WarbroJavaCo I think that's against their TOS

I made an Instagram for casual/life stuff

@TiaPixel Yes, come work with me! We're less insane and morally-compromised than the game makes us look, we promise!

@TiaPixel: Ludeon Studios (creator of RimWorld) is hiring a game designer with a focus on systems design!

Apply now:

Discovering a new game genre is super valuable.

But many of those undiscovered genres are things that wouldn't appeal to us nerdy game devs.

This is the problem with "make the game you want to play". Other nerds just like you already did that.