I’ll do it on monday!

Okay, i’m actually going to keep the challenge seperate from the game design progress updates. I got 2 more hours in developing characters. 7 good guys only 6 bad guys. But trust me this is enough. I’m thinking you won’t be playing the bad guys after all. So we can leave a little mystery to the story. But you will get to play each story of the good guys. In the next post or next few posts (as the case may be) i’m going to outline the main story. Then in another post i’ll introduce the characters to you.

Previously: Enchanted Lands: 100 Hour Challenge Update #1

Keith

Okay now i’ve got your attention, i’m going to be doing this a little different in the future.  I’m going to combine my 9-5 experiment and thousander club updates into the the same post under the title “Time Management Struggles”.  In any case if you wanted to read how i’m doing in the thousander club you can find it under here.

Okay first thing 9-5 experiment update : Today’s a success only I did it differently.  Today I worked from 6 - 2 for 8 hours so I consider that a success, which relates to my thousander club stuff.

Thousander club update :

I did alright on my 8 hour day however I feel I probably wasted an hour, mostly because I was up a bit late last night, so it took me 10 minutes to get going on the computer.  Then I ate lunch and sort of slept through a little bit of it.  I may not have wasted a full hour but i’m only going to count 7 hours in the T-club.  so that makes it 133 hours.

133/1000

Keith

I haven’t been doing much, struggling with my lack of time management skills.  In any case i’m looking at the free Popcap Framework for making small completed games to increase my skill set, or at least to show myself i’ve accomplished something.  I’ll be starting with various small games and offering them probably for free through my website/blog.

As far as Enchanted Lands Progress goes, i’ve added 2 more hours of work to the 100 hour challenge, and i’ll be updating that soon.  I’ll also let you know what I came up with.

Thanks for reading.

Special thanks to GB Games for mentioning my irc chat channel #GameDevelopers on the Starchat network ( irc.starchat.net )

Keith

Collectively i’ve only gotten about 6 total hours of work done to add to my 120 hours

So that makes it 126 hours out of 1000

126/1000

Keith

Lagging behind a little bit, collectively since like thursday i’ve done about 8 hours.

That puts me at about 120 hours.

I’m thinking of going back and trying the 9-5 experiment again.  Maybe tommorow (technically today) tuesday march 7th.

120/1000

Keith

Okay now that i’m over 10%, i’m going to add more hours.  Okay i’m going to add 12 hours, making a total of 112/1000 –  I’ll tell you why.  Today I got up at 6 and worked till 4:30 - not quite 5, but then I didn’t complain.  Then at around 9 pm or so, I added some more time, only it got interrupted with various things, finally I got to working till 12:30 - all told about 2 and half hours.  So that’s it.

112/1000

Keith

ps.  I promise i’ll get back to some real content soon.  Like week after next, depending on how things go.

Yep you heard right.  Finally got up to 100 hours out of 1000.  Of course I think I only have probably 2 readers about now, and they’re probably getting bored.  Of course i’m working on Droidarena related stuff.

Good news is, i’m getting to a point where I can almost settle down now and get back to my other projects.  I may put in another work-tastic week — In the meantime i’ll try to put up some more about Enchanted Lands.  And if I can manage it, hopefully i’ll start making some animations of Hypno-Joe.

I do have a time where I ge to watch tv, goes from about 5-9 at night.  Which means I could be drawing at that time.  Which means even if i’m doing something else, I should be able to show animation progress.

In any case 10% — Maybe I should attempt the 2grand club or something.  I mean I have all this time, I should put it to use.  Other people shouldn’t have to stack their hours against mine, unless they also stay at home.  Most of you guys (okay you 2 the only ones that probably read now) have day jobs, I don’t, so by that nature, I should probably put in twice as much.  It would stack up more fairly.  10/2000 is only 5 percent and that is about what you guys do have ( a little better but it’s roughly 2-1 ).  What do you think?

100/1000

Keith

Yep, I managed another 12 hours…  when I woke up this (yesterday) morning, I was late, however I did nothing but program all day.  Then I caught about 4 hours later at night.  So I did manage to actually pull off 12 hours.  It brings me to 92.

What i’ve been doing is working on Droidarena –  On particularly top secret stuff.  Just to let you know why i’ve been racking up hours yet failing to produce anything here on the site.  I can’t go into the details.  I should be back on track either next week or the week after.  But i’m doing some stuff that requires me to put in a lot of time.  And i’m trying to do it at one time, so I can eventually be “finished”.

so here’s to:
92/1000

Keith

Yes i’m reporting on a daily basis, so sue me ;-)

Today I managed at least 10 hours.  I wasn’t sure how to work it, I was a little lax on my timekeeping today.  I know I worked for 6 hours, then from 1-5 I worked in there somewhere I figured I managed about 2 hours, and then I worked off and on from 9 - midnight (plus some extra, that is i’m going to do a few more things before bed).

So i’m giving my self a total of 10 hours today instead of counting actual time which may include more.

that means 80/1000

80/1000

Keith

Yeah yeah, I know that’s all i’m doing lately. Trying to get this project done. Don’t know if i’m going to postpone the others to finish this quicker, but this week i’m at least doing 10 hours a week. So for my first day 10 hours bringing my grand total to 68 hours out of 1000.

I’m trying to work up to workaholic :-)

68/1000

As an update I got more than 2 hours in, however i’m keeping it at 2 hours because I didn’t plan to spend longer.  So the new total is below.

70/1000

Keith