Hi guys,

Motivation is awesome, and horrifying, at least I think so. It allows you to completely focus on something for days without thinking twice, or it leaves you staring at the screen thinking "What am I doing with my life...".

So I'm asking you guys:

• What motivates/drives you?

Currently nature motivates me, such as below ( Took a walk ). My drive is that one day we will reach graphics that will be indistinguishable from "real life" through the naked eye.

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That's about it, thanks for reaching the bottom.

My drive is that one day I will create a system called "Skynet" that will take over the world. All silliness aside, I do what I do because I love doing it. I love sitting at my computer every morning and writing code. I love compiling and watching that stuff work. I love solving problems. If I didn't love doing it, I wouldn't do it.

Boardom

Usually the current activities that I am doing at a time motivates me. At this moment, it's custom Lego model design and editing the music we recorded with my metal band. There are times when I don't do anything motivational and I'm not with my girlfriend, that times I'm usually bored and reading shit on the internet (or check how famous I am on the internet ).

All silliness aside, I do what I do because I love doing it. I love sitting at my computer every morning and writing code. I love compiling and watching that stuff work. I love solving problems. If I didn't love doing it, I wouldn't do it.

This.

I've never quite understood the need for work to fulfil some higher purpose. I'm generally motivated as long as I have hard problems to solve.

Pure unadulterated rage.

Being able to create basically anything you want, That's gamedev for me.

All silliness aside, I do what I do because I love doing it. I love sitting at my computer every morning and writing code. I love compiling and watching that stuff work. I love solving problems. If I didn't love doing it, I wouldn't do it.

This.

I've never quite understood the need for work to fulfil some higher purpose. I'm generally motivated as long as I have hard problems to solve.

Problems are nice, I just like the feeling of working towards something.

Problems are nice, I just like the feeling of working towards something.

I fall in the middle there. While a higher purpose is nice, I'd still almost certainly plug away at things for the simple pleasure of programming. When it's going well it's almost a meditative practice :P Stress and anxiety kind of melt away and I can lose myself in solving whatever programming problems. I think I play games for the same reason. I have a pretty disruptive anxiety disorder, so I tend to take solace where I can find it :P