So I was hyped for this LD.\u00a0 Cleared my schedule.\u00a0 Ready to go.<\/p>\n
Woke up, felt a little groggy and off, but not too bad, and still totally hyped.\u00a0 Excitedly waited the hours down to theme announcement.\u00a0 Then it happened.<\/p>\n
90 minutes before theme announcement I started feeling rather sick.\u00a0 Okay, fine, I can probably still LD sick.\u00a0 I mean it’s basically just staying home and chilling in my pajamas, right?<\/p>\n
Yeah, no.\u00a0 At theme announcement I spent a little while tinkering with ideas and decided to go for a 2d platformer.<\/p>\n
I then spent over an hour completely and utterly failing to create the absolute basics of a 2d platformer.\u00a0 I looked at older code as a reference, and I just could not put these pieces together in my head to put them together in the game.\u00a0 After more than an hour of this, I decided to go take a nap.<\/p>\n
The nap has helped.\u00a0 The brain fog is a little less severe, but I still can’t seem to organize my thoughts enough to organize basic elements for a game.\u00a0 I can’t even get a simple prototype running because I just can’t think.\u00a0 Not feeling too hot physically, either; the stomach upset is annoying, but the brain fog is absolutely driving me up a wall.<\/p>\n
I keep thinking about how little time is left and that just seems to make it worse, adding anxiety to illness.\u00a0 I have been reminding myself that I popped into the Compo on a whim last LD (my first!) 9 hours in and still banged out a functional game, from scratch, in about 24 hours – albeit that game had very small scope.\u00a0 I know I can do this.\u00a0 Just not right now.<\/p>\n
I’ll probably sleep some more in a bit.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll feel better in a little while and manage to put something together.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll tinker with art for a little while and leave coding for later.<\/p>\n
Maybe I’ll go for the Jam this time (again, once feeling a little clearer), for the extra time and the ability to re-use some older code as a starting point.<\/p>\n
Or maybe I’ll drop completely and do what I did every LD prior to last – watch streamers make their own stuff \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 Much fun, much learning.\u00a0 And it’s been a lot of fun looking through posts here and seeing what others have accomplished in 6 hours, you guys rock!<\/p>\n
Right now, though, I’m just trying to clear my head.\u00a0 Stupid head, why you do this thing?<\/p>","time":"August 27th, 2016 1:52 am","title":"The spirit is willing, the brain is not"}