I do game development on the side and my project Wormhole Ventures was long ago greenlit for Valve's Steam platform. Yet, I also work a day to day job as a senior network engineer where I am on call 24/7.
In development of the game I had instantiated a random map and tweaked it so they look quite nice. I've had playable older versions, but this takes it to a new level and I was focusing on making sure it is multiplayer.
To this extent I wrote my own network handling routines and I had the maps and such synchronizing across machines. I was at the point where I needed to start instantiating the player ships and actually making it move, and testing to make sure it works properly over the network.
Then the project was greenlit. This came as a pleasant surprise. I got access to the powerful Steamworks API which is only available behind the scenes and has a big NDA we agree to on it.
This resulted in me going back and changing a lot of my networking.
I have been at the point where I needed to instantiate the player ships for months now. Yet this particular point is much like tossing 100 balls into the air at a time and juggling them. The blip of an IM, or a hangout chat from work, or a family member coming in and talking to me and all of the balls fall to the ground. After that is over I begin tossing them into the air again with the hopes of being able to focus.
I actually planned several weekends to do this on. Every single one of them was interrupted.
I have taken the next three days off as vacation, and instead of actual vacation I am going to go nuts trying to power past this barrier that has been stalling my development for many months. This means no distractions. This means I likely won't look much at steemit except near bed time or something like that for the next few days.
The exception to this will be after I manage to power past the 100 ball juggling problems. It should be smooth sailing and much more interruption tolerant at that point.
So for those of you that pay attention to such details... that is why I am likely to be far less present for a few days.
Steem On!
