And, interestingly enough, I bet "Lines of Cocaine" is actually a better metric of productivity than is "Lines of Code"

"Yes... BMX XXX will be the defining sports game of this console generation"

Incidentally, the first death match was when Romero and Carmack hide to defend their stash against an incoming mexican drug cartel


Why do you think the big white ball made you invincible?

If I'm looking for noise to drown out the TV and such (and the horrible reality shows my family watches), I usually listen to white noise. There's a YouTube video with 12 hours of white noise that I listen to with earphones sometimes.
Otherwise, I prefer it to just be quiet. I can't think very well with the TV on and the earphones and white noise eventually get uncomfortable. Due to this, I usually just seclude myself until everyone is in bed and start programming when it's quiet...or I'll play a game and procrastinate. I have a very scarce amount of friends on Facebook, so I can't get many distractions out of that (phew - dodged a bullet there!)

I only break out the nice music when I'm doing level design or something like that. Otherwise, if I'm programming, it becomes too distracting.

Generally, I can't program nicely with any of the fancier programs, like Visual Studio or MonoDevelop. They just kind of irritate me with their bulkiness. I try to customize the layout to make it easier to deal with, but really, I just prefer UniSciTE, which comes with Unity3D. It's light-weight and fast, plus it doesn't have any of it's own code checking: when I'm ready to see if my code has errors, I'll switch to Unity, let it load for a bit, and see what it says. I don't want my text editor to put little red lines under everything I'm writing before I'm finished writing it. Visual Studio bugs me with that to no end...if I stop writing to think for a second, it shows me a bunch of errors and puts red underlines under everything...it's like I'm writing code in Microsoft Word...

[quote name='Shippou' timestamp='1344910822' post='4969290']
Am I the only one who requires it to be - quiet - ?
No music, no TV, no distractions.

I get the most work done when I have something to listen to. I like talk radio style podcasts.
[/quote]

I'm similar. I do music when I'm coding something from scratch, but listen to podcasts while I debug. NPR and Kevin Smith's podcasts pretty much.

I swear a lot.

Sometimes I make time-lapse videos of my work by changing the video options in CamStudio.

(which is also above some awesome baristas)

Dude, you work in Hengsha City? :9

I get in my groove by doing the following things:

1. Get enough sleep. If this doesn't happen, then go to sleep until condition satisfied.
2. Get a large cup of coffee.
3. Put on a large play list of classical music or other easy listening music.
4. Open up my notepad++ doc and read the notes I left for myself on where I left off in the project
5. Code, coffee, code, coffee, code, bathroom, code, bathroom, code, coffee.

The things that break my groove cycle:
1. People needing to talk to me
2. Distractions
3. Problems I can't solve and have to look up online

when I am coding my professional issues, I do nothing but code and smoke in silence, in my office.

But when I get to code my dream game , I turn off lights, play out Digitaly Imported chillout silently, and think of the best fantasy stuff I can think of.

(didn't happen for long though :-( ...)

1. If(!masturbated){
masturbate();
}else{
carryOn();
}
2. Put some crappy TV show on.
3. Get another monitor with facebook/gamedev.net/some kind of irc
4. Get the IDE up
5. start coding at 4PM
6. end coding at 3AM thinking wtf? what happened to the time?