Unless there is something severely wrong with your laptop it does not take 5 hours to format and reinstall windows. At least, not windows 7, nor windows 8.
Well, something must have been wrong with my laptop, because I swear it did take that long. How long is it suppose to take?
This one didn't have a DVD drive so Windows was packaged internally on the hdd.
On an SSD? It takes me about 15 minutes to be back up and running, maybe 20. On an old fashioned spinning drive, maybe 40 minutes.
In time the project grows, the ignorance of its devs it shows, with many a convoluted function, it plunges into deep compunction, the price of failure is high, Washu's mirth is nigh.
I want to see the new game!
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Avoid burn out by pacing yourself.
Use win7 instead of win8.
Don't get viruses.
Make backups.
Use a disk imaging program like Acronis if you are concerned about reinstall times.
You only fail when you quit trying.
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The best way to get people play and try games is to enter competitions :)
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You only fail when you quit trying.
Totally Epic. +1
Also I totally believe you when you say refreshing a system takes 5 hours. It takes me one week to get back to a usable state (reinstall all little softwares and utilities, place my customizations, optimized drivers...) Just installing visual studio takes the whole day.
That's why I just dont get viruses. I think im careful enough. same windows vista since 2008, and its in a good enough state. My win8.1 machine is recent so fresh as well.
side note: Linux is much faster for this kind of iterations. and much more comfortable for development. vive apt-get install libboost-all !
What are the steps you're taking to get back into game development? What did you do today?
If you can't figure out Windows, I worry how you'd going to find installing and using Linux on your PC.
If you can't figure out Windows, I worry how you'd going to find installing and using Linux on your PC.
Which LInux there is 60+ distros and uh Justin Bieber linux. I think installing Justin Bieber linux is like Puppy Lucid linux though. I could be wrong, though.
Sometimes Fantasy is the Only option.
Also, after fifteen years here, I've seen very few people actually care when a community member actually finished and posted a game. It's a curious duality.
Thank god there was the Week of Awesome II for that :P It is indeed one of the rare occurrences I've seen myself. It seems Gamedev is more about sharing issues/solutions than it is about bragging about the final outcome. This isn't bad though, but it does mean people will care little whether you are actively developing or not.
Avoid burn out by pacing yourself.
Use win7 instead of win8.
Don't get viruses.
Make backups.
Use a disk imaging program like Acronis if you are concerned about reinstall times.
You only fail when you quit trying.
Pretty much sums it up.
- Pace yourself with a system. You've read my article on the 5,1,1 Perhaps consider applying it, or devise your own, but a system will prevent you from jumping into mood swings which would inevitably lead to burn out.
- I use Win7. I loathe Win8. It's not that it's UI is not user-friendly, it's that I was born with the "other windows". I have better productivity with Win7, so I don't see any reason to jump to win8 (plus, I feel like a noob whenever I want to fix my gf's laptop!)
- My approach to viruses has never changed. I don't invest in anti-viruses. At best, I keep Spybot or Malwarebyte for common issues. I backup everything to external drives (and sometimes keep a working copy on a usb key). I format my computer whenever I hit a major roadblock (read: virus) which means I lose about 4-8 hours per year to setup my computer from scratch. Minor impediment compared to have anti-viruses and dealing with crap that pops-up...
Also, don't use your dev setup for leisure. Don't look at porn or crap sites or whatever. My dev setup is always 100% legit, and is used only to dev, which means that, aside from the very rare audio driver issue (what the hell was that anyway), I minimize the risk of losing work or cursing at my dev machine.
- Now I want to look up Acronis!
- Never, ever give up. A bunch of cheesy images will depict you as being 1 failure away from success. However cheesy, this is always accurate unless you're failing on purpose or have unrealistic goals (and even then, you could still get a win with a lot of efforts). It's never easy to fail, but it is how you get back up that counts.
