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I often end up in the following situation:
Each day, I'm eager to start working on my project, and generally in the first 2 hours of work I make a lot of progress. But at certain point during the day, I become content with my progress, and end up playing my game over and over. My game is a platformer which is heavily slope based so I constantly go back and forth across the screen doing various jumps in a trance-like state.
To a certain extent playing your game like this can be useful because it allows you to imagine things you might like to add, and occasionally you spot bugs or oversights in how things work. But there's definitely a point where you're playing it too much and it's not beneficial. Does anyone else have this problem? I have a feeling it's pretty common, but it's annoying because I definitely have periods where I'm very productive, it's just that after a certain amount of "work" my will power reduces. There have been multiple studies on will power and how it, at least, seems to reduce throughout the day as you do more and more work. But I also wonder if not being able to work for longer periods could be like a bad habit. Like once you reach 2 hours or so, you're so used of stopping that you continue to do the same thing you always do!
What do you think?
Each day, I'm eager to start working on my project, and generally in the first 2 hours of work I make a lot of progress. But at certain point during the day, I become content with my progress, and end up playing my game over and over. My game is a platformer which is heavily slope based so I constantly go back and forth across the screen doing various jumps in a trance-like state.
To a certain extent playing your game like this can be useful because it allows you to imagine things you might like to add, and occasionally you spot bugs or oversights in how things work. But there's definitely a point where you're playing it too much and it's not beneficial. Does anyone else have this problem? I have a feeling it's pretty common, but it's annoying because I definitely have periods where I'm very productive, it's just that after a certain amount of "work" my will power reduces. There have been multiple studies on will power and how it, at least, seems to reduce throughout the day as you do more and more work. But I also wonder if not being able to work for longer periods could be like a bad habit. Like once you reach 2 hours or so, you're so used of stopping that you continue to do the same thing you always do!
What do you think?