Really feeling the Face to Face of late

Silly little nothing of a blog today, won't be saying anything incriminating and nothing insightful, just a bit of a mundane person journal entry...

DEAR DIARY!

Yesterday we were all ready to migrate to JetBrains's Rider, and SURELY everything was going to be better, and new and we just had to get used to all the awesomeness, and it has that better hotkey system!

Well we got about 10 minutes into dev and I whipped out my trusty (Alt + Q, Shift + F12 originally) to find all references, and this odd menu came up, with all this excess info and references and file structures, and I just found it so horribly unnecessary.

Ok, just some growing pains getting into this new software SURELY. JetBrains Rider is better, everyone says so! So I poked around, asked AI some questions, and while there were  a few settings I could change to kinda tone down the bloat of information... this was just the core experience.

And the other elements of the editor were kinda weighing on me. I had to do a lot of setting adjustments to get the software from beating me over the head with lots of other references and bits of information I didn't need.

M*THER FUCKER I DON'T NEEDS TO KNOW ALL THIS BULLSHIT INFORMATION, I BUILT THIS FUCKING PROJOECT FROM THE GROUND UP, STOP DISTRACTING ME WITH WORHTLESS INFORMATION.

And it kept trying to optimize my code and standardize it in ways that sucked, sometimes it was pretty good suggestions though.

Anyway, boring ramble aside, WE'RE GOING BACK! We're going back to VISUAL STUDIO WITH ITS SHITTY HOTKEYS! Because everything else i'm actually really happy with!

Sometimes all the fancy bells and whistles just just in the way, and people go overboard creating all this functionality thinking more and more is better.

But it's not. Those should be add ons at most.

I've always kinda preferred driving stick over an automatic, I just like being in tune with the machine and having control over everything. And this is doubly so for code. I don't want spreadsheets and excess noise in the information I'm parsing, just give me the shit I need to know, nothing more. It's like information overload using rider.

The software itself is a miracle and it does so much neat stuff so well, but it's presented in a way that it gets in the way of my flow, SO IT'S GOTTA GO!

So we're right back to square one.

And I had another epiphany about the game and how we've been overthinking everything and we're going back to our old plans.

We keep holding ourselves to these stupidly high standards and thinking we need to just work on one element at a time and it has to be perfect before we make it part of the main demo, and we were going to work on shields, and then another thing, and polish the crap out of everything as we go.

And I'm kinda over that, I'm over the notion that we need to stress and hold ourselves to perfection every step of the way.

How about we just start adding shit and try to finally strat making a playable game again? We'll tweak and tune stuff as we go.

It's not like anyone is playing the damn game anyway! We haven't even put our game on steam yet! We're on the downlow so we can put out crappy demos!

THAT SAID, at the time of typing this we are at 8,999 plays on the Unity play site and very likely

GOING TO BE OVER 9,000 PLAYS!

https://play.unity.com/en/games/62bf367d-bf96-4612-a6d5-e1617bfc5c82/seacrit-tai...

And that's pretty dope! On hand cool, people are actually playing this stupidly small and unfinished version of our game! On the other hand, DON'T PLAY IT, IT'S NOT READY YET!

XD

I don't friggin' know, what I DO know, is that the only way  it's going to show it's true potential is if we get to fookin' work!

So I'm tired of feelin' sluggish, and even though it used to put us into bad episodes of breathlessness, tonight I'm going to be WILD AND CRAZY and drink a singular cup of TEA! WOW WE ARE NUTS! I BETTER NOT OPERATE ANY HEAVY MACHINERY!

So yeah, hoping to wake the fuck up at least a little bit and do some ok work. Tired of just being in this perpetual state of wanting to work but just feeling bleh and hoping a cup of tea gets us over the hump without any terrible side effects, we'll see how it goes.

We used to slam like 8 iced coffees a day before all this health bullshit and we could get to work no problem. Damn I miss those days.