Every morning I start my day by replying to the artists, providing feedback or acknowledgment so that they can continue to the next stage. I look through my messages so that I can work with my story manager and other people at RC, whether it’s translators, promo, etc. Today I need to respond to my translators and write spoilers.
Yesterday, I submitted a draft to my editor. While I wait on the edits today–not that they ever take long! my editor has a radically quick turnaround!–I’m going to work on assigning the emotions/expressions to characters, updating the text asset spreadsheets, adding asset IDs to the draft, etc., and finishing up some last minute art documentation, the types of mechanical tasks that can easily be done to some music.
Since it’s summer, and my children aren’t in school, I have to drop off my partners and kids in the morning, which happens after I walk my dog. This means I start working around 9am. Today I have a doctor’s appointment at 10:50, so that means I have approximately 40 minutes to work in the morning after breakfast, and I pick up my eldest from summer camp at 11:50. I have a sitter this afternoon, so that means the majority of my work will happen in afternoon and evening. Summer… is not my favorite time. But I’m certain that many other parents are in a similar position.
It’d be easier to focus over these next 40 minutes if my dog wasn’t a maniac. She’s chewed up a green pen and now looks like she murdered a leprechaun.
I’m hoping that if I make sufficient progress with RC I can write asset description for the programmer on a private project so that he can work on creating parameters for procedural generation of certain game objects. I also want to add more touches to my website, and review ISIL so that I can begin drawing for it again. I had dreams this summer of writing some prose, too, but this seems like an after-the-school-year begins deal now. I’m hoping that I can do some minor projects (repairing a desk organizer for the kids’ art desk, some clean up) before cooking dinner.