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I've heard over and over that a good thing to do is focus on getting three meaningful tasks done in a day (Google it) rather than running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to do everything (and then usually getting overwhelmed and getting nothing done at all). I've been practicing this lately and it definitely makes life a little easier and has helped me prioritize in spite of the chaos that is generally my life. It doesn't mean three things are all you can do, it means three things are all you obligate yourself to do and take top priority in the day. So anyways, in the spirit of the 'Human Hugs' thread, "Something you JUST did thread", goal accountability, etc. I present to you...

(http://i53.tinypic.com/10sabls.jpg)

Here's how it works: Everyone posts 3 things they intend to accomplish with their day and then... they do them. 8)

It seems that most of us frequent these forums in and out of the day so make it a point to view your post here each time you 'visit' the forums today. Let your post be a reminder that today you are kicking ass and taking names! Today you are getting shit done! Encourage others here to get shit done and be encouraged yourself. That is the goal here.

Make sure you declare your goals here in an over-dramatic movie bad-ass way! Declaring them while walking away from an explosion earns you extra style points. Also, make sure at the end of the day (i.e your day) post what you've accomplished.

Now take the day and fucking own it Chuck Norris style!




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I declare that for the day I shall lay the smack down on the following endeavors:

(1) I will finally get around to deep cleaning my house, like a boss. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c) Real men don't live in filth, they create it. Status: Owned it.

(2) I will set up the framework for my Etrian Odyssey ripof... ...er I mean Etrian Odyssey inspired game I am making in GM8.1 and its sheer awesomeness will melt your fucking eyeballs and set your hair on fire. Status: Half-Owned it.

(3) I will do my crossfit excercises, weight lifting, and strike training until my limbs turn to jelly and my lungs exhaust lightning bolts. I do not procrastinate from exercise, exercise procrastinates from me. Status: Owned it.

Great idea.  :)

(1)- Will get a playable build of my WIP game to request music from a musician.
(2)- Will do a complete revision of 8th grade Math.
(3)- Will get some bureaucracy done. 

i don't think people in 8th grade should be concerned about productivity or wasting time. that's the time to have fun and do whatever you want.

anyway, i already do this (not '3' in specific, though). i don't really need to frame it dramatically for it to work because it's a habit to decide what i'm going to do in a day and then do what i decided. but may as well see what limited it to the number 3 specifically will do.

- import the 'fifish' sprite into SD, and animate its parts
- do the same for the 'giant hippo' sprite
- do the same for the 'opinicus' sprite

will post screenshots of what they look like after they're done, later today

I'm not on the 8th grade, I just need to remind some math knowledge I forgot for a mid term I'm going to have this month.

ah, i see

That was actually said for humor's sake, Paul. You know, to lighten the mood and try to add a fun spin on things?

That's okay though, you can own your day in the subtle and subdued ways of the 'Master Ninja'. Sip some tea and kick some pixel ass, Paul!

Good idea. :) Glad you caught me in the morning, time to do this.

-Make a mockup of my game's intended interface
-Make HUD graphics, including healthbar and weapon information
-Finish creating the HUD within my game.

1. Solve upside down gimbal lock
2. Solve upside down jumping
3. Solve upside down camera

???

please solve problem SOLVE! and dissolve my stress  :beg:

also are we going to do this every day or just today (e.g. will this thread end after today or will this be an ongoing thing)

if the latter i move that we rename this thread 'the days of ownage'

Or 'Lifetime of Ownage'. I hope this goes on for a while, it's actually fairly motivational.

I believe you can solve gimbal lock by using quarternions.

no it's a special kind of gimbal lock called the gilbert lock (see his thread about it)

Hopefully this will be an ongoing thing (i.e. every day). I know that at least for myself I will try to keep it going.

i find the first post really offensive

No time to be offended, KICK SOME ASS

i kick ass a lot. quite often i kick actual ass. my shin bone meets ass. with considerable force. and never in this process is a picture of chuck norris required.

Going to run some errands...! This cuts back on stuff. Crunch time.

crunch time? More like munch time AMIRITE?

I've got none of the above. T_T

Working on the graphics. Mockup doesn't seem realistic.

Congrats, gilbert.

Is 2/3 good enough? I'm not skilled enough in inkscape to do much more work. I'll try some concept art in place of it.

no, 2 out of 3 is not good enough, 3 out of 3 is what the day is about

here's a chart for you

3/3: chuck norris
2/3: chuck liddell
1/3: chuck jones
0/3: chuck taylor (salesman)

1. Go to doctor's office, get prescription for antibiotics      DONE!
2. Go to drugstore, get prescription filled
3. Go to work      DONE!
4. Finish a texture for a game model while at non-gam-making job      DONE!
  Wow I suck at texturing. :(

/ or is that cheating?

EDIT: Doc sez my immune system is so tough that antibiotics are useless at this point, it's already kicking the shit out of the infection.

That's cheating, unless you can fill the prescription while walking away from an explosion in slow motion while AC/DC is wailing in the background

*sigh* Mockup time then.

In the meantime, here's a dragonball radar I worked on.

(http://i.imgur.com/ma40M.png)

Made basic mockup of a design., found here: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=19471.msg558364#msg558364

3/3.

Chuck Norris, bitches.

i don't understand what those weird shapes are but congrats anyway

Read the main topic.  :monoclepop:

It's too late for me to post about things I intend to do today, so instead, here's the three things I did yesterday and today.

Yesterday:

1. Implement generic audio, video, and mouse configuration menus.
2. Allow patches to be flagged as "chokepoints" that must be patched to before future patches can be applied.
3. Allow localized strings to be specified in any packed content file.

Today:

1. Spend all day trying not to move my arm because I got a shot yesterday and my shoulder is sore.
2. Be in a bad mood all day.
3. Drink a beer.

Cough. :-\ Yesterday was somewhat more productive than today was.

i don't feel responsible to you. anyway:

1. do neck stretching and resistance exercise
2. prepare a 15 minute report for the quality control class
3. troubleshoot my seemingly not working microphone jack with a linux live cd

11am here

I like you Paul Eres.

-Eat cereal.
-Post about me eating cereal.
-Watch anime.

tags : chuck norris jokes ownage gamer fuel indie cave story XD random humor funny philosophy kickass

Done two of the three.

Using the internal logic of this statement, guess which one I have left to do.

hgahaahahaha this place is the gift that keeps on giving

WHICH ANIME? :screamy:

watching anime is a hard task. i've tried once, it's torturous

• Take the working prototype of my new game and package it into a more concrete shell to move forward with.
• Start a dev log for it.

• Dominate mid as Vayne.

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EDIT:  Failed the rest.  Got to tinkering with my job system and decided I hated it, so that ate up my time instead.

Cow, I do that stuff everyday... and so do you. :facepalm:

What's on my plate...

-Tons of overdue lessons for school
-Add a knife attack to my game.
-Design more weapons.

I have EIGHT tasks for today:

1. Fix the order in which fonts are drawn.
2. Add a console command to allow patching to be temporarily disabled.
3. Write up a list of all console commands.
4. Modify my controls system to allow for non-bindable controls.
5. Generalize menu input using my controls system.
6. Add a patch notes text file.
7. Ensure my patcher supports filenames with spaces.
8. Look up this word that's been on the tip of my tongue all morning...means something like "trivia," "miscellanea," or "lore."

minutiae

Nah, that wasn't it...I think it might've been "apocrypha," but now I don't know. I still feel like there's some other word I'm missing.

10pm

√ do neck stretching and resistance exercise (10 min)
√ prepare a 15 minute report for the quality control class (3 hrs)
√ troubleshoot my seemingly not working microphone jack with a linux live cd (15 min, now i'm certain that it doesn't work)

i haven't been posting throughout the day because i think it's dum and i discourage others from cluttering the thread that way

Ephemera?

I think that might've been it. That popped into my head earlier, too. Though after I looked it up, I realized it didn't mean exactly what I was wanting anyway. Derp.

dammit now you have me feeling like I'm forgetting a word too

I also thought of "obscura," which I'm pretty sure I've seen used in the same context, but I don't think it's technically correct.

don't you dare fucking tell me i'm wrong. i'm super joe bitch.

What the heck was I thinking? My game doesn't need a melee attack. :-\

Another goal...... Hm. I guess I could organize my notes, and finalize the design document.

Recap:

• Do buttload of school work
• Design more weapons for my project
• Organize design document in a neat, orderly way so as to find things simply
• Finish the design document. (~15% done)

My biggest, most ambitious goal is obviously the design document. All i've covered is potential interface, and barely covered controls. Thankfully I've got a bit of down time away from the computer.

i think it's a bit too ambitious to finish a design document in one day if it's only 15% done. my design documents take me months to complete (but then again, they're often more than 100 pages long).

also i did finish my 3 tasks yesterday, but i didn't get a chance to make a screenshot. i'll make one soon and list my tasks for today.

Make sure that making a screenshot is one of the tasks, then it's sure to be done!

that'd make it 4 things instead of 3 tho

I try not to make my design documents huge. The largest I've ever done was about 15 pages, and that was over-ambitious and not that organized. Often times I don't make official 'design documents', just a few notes over the course of many pages. If I want to be neat, I'll make a design document.

Maybe it's reflective of how I am; my workspace looks like a pigsty to the average onlooker, but I know where everything is. If someone were to clean it, it would take me hours to find stuff.

Ahh well. I'm about 45% into it, but to be fair I did have lunch and watch TV.

That is just not true, you're a damn liar.

• Do buttload of school work
• Design more weapons for my project
• Organize design document in a neat, orderly way so as to find things simply
• Finish the design document. (~85% done)

Almost finished.


EDIT: Whoa, 1000 posts. Level 10. :beer:

Okay so my goals are

1. Get high.
2. Gkorae thigh.
3. rpf

Mesh is a treasure.

You're obviously wrong. You are Superb Joe, not Super Joe Bitch.

okay so it turns out i animated one of the 3 creatures from yesterday badly, so i spent today fixing up that creature's animations and making it better again. i didn't get to set 3 tasks for today because i waited too long before i set them (now it's 11pm). but anyway here's the screenshot

http://i.imgur.com/pk35A.jpg

i didn't draw them (my artist komera did) but she just drew the individual parts individually (e.g. the legs, wings, tail, etc. are all separate image files) so it's up to me to put them together and make them rotate and move with the creature as it moves, which took a long time, particularly for the biggest creature there (which has 20 separate parts).

anyway my 3 tasks for tomorrow will be: finish coding the behavior of those three creatures (now that they're animated i need to make them do stuff other than just move around)

Seven of eight's not bad. I can write up a list of console commands any day.

Also I fixed like three other bugs I didn't even intend to fix, so yay.

The creatures look awesome, Paul!



Well, I completed two of my goals yesterday but underestimated one of them (but I completed as much of it as I realistically could in the day). So today (it's 10pm but this is technically my 'morning') my new goals are:

(1) More crossfit, weightlifting, and strike training. I must hone my ninja skills. The specific goal: at least 60 minutes of total workout for today. Status: In queue.

(2) Set the dungeon crawler aside until tomorrow (to give myself time for ideas to percolate) and resume work on Maidens of the Hunt (with the specific goal being to create no less than a dozen digital concept roughs). Status: In queue.

(3) Create either at least 1 canvas painting or 2 pencil drawings. Too much digital is not a good thing for me. Time to go into Bob Ross mode! Status: In queue.

It's just about bed time for me now, I'm going to set my goals for tomorrow.


-Finalize design document (Copy from physical paper to MS Word and save as a PDF file.)

-Begin my Sprite-A-Day practice to get better at making sprites.

-Set up external resource loading.. Right now I'm packing all the graphics/sounds into the game maker file, but I plan to release this project as open source. So I will be externally loading so resources are easily accessible.

3pm

1. do two neck exercise routines (listing it because it isn't a habit yet)
2. implement a compilable and visible SurfaceView for a school project
3. do http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_writing for at least five minutes

this seems familiar somehow

congratulations to jwk5 for not having a tigforums account anymore

BAH Why are all the good people leaving? :(

2am

√ do two neck exercise routines (10 min)
implement a compilable and visible SurfaceView for a school project (10 min, turned out to be unnecessary)
√ do http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_writing for at least five minutes

-Finalize design document (Copy from physical paper to MS Word and save as a PDF file.)

-Begin my Sprite-A-Day practice to get better at making sprites. http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=19506.0

-Set up external resource loading.


EDIT:

Fixed external resource loading, though because of it, GM8.1 throws an error with the runner (Go figure. I finally do something smart and I get penalized for it. :P).

Now all thats left to do is type up the design document.

finished 1.5 of the 3 tasks for today. my first failure happened too soon! tomorrow's 3 tasks are

- finish the other 1.5 tasks that i didn't finish today
- resume exercising (i had stopped because you're not supposed to exercise after wisdom tooth surgery for like a week; but it'll be a week tomorrow)
- make some new screenshots for SD that i actually like and update the SD facebook page and SD devlog thread with them

I too have to put this down as a failure. I didn't type up the design document.

On my plate for tomorrow-

-Type up the design document first thing. This takes priority. I hate having my notebook on my desk.

-Name my game.

-Create a to-do list to finish my game so that I can decide my tasks easier.

1pm

1. do two neck exercise routines
2. code the UI layout for the school project
3. record a video of the latest version of Inside a Star-filled Sky

2am

√ do two neck exercise routines (10 min)
code the UI layout for the school project (change of plans, was doing related tasks for 4 hours)
X record a video of the latest version of Inside a Star-filled Sky

i don't see the point of posting this in this thread so i'll stop

social culpability -- supposedly people are more motivated to do something when others will know if they fail and that they'll be judged worse for having failed

i don't feel it here

maybe it's cause your tasks aren't very interesting to a social audience -- it's not a game they can potentially play or anything

All done, 3/3. My game's name is Mole, and it is about a spy in various Timesplitters2-style missions. Devlog coming tomorrow.

EDIT:

My tasks for tomorrow:

-Write a dev log.

-Take measures to safeguard external resources.

-Free drawing, like free writing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_writing).

Counterpoint: http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself.html

already familiar with that but the context is different -- long-term goals / dreams vs short daily tasks. the research shows both are true in different contexts. but it's probably also different for different personality types -- i think that some people treat obligations as impositions, and react negatively to feeling that they 'have' to do something, or are expected to, and other people are more dutiful and react positively to obligations (the more things they're expected to do, they more they get done)