Tonight's topic:  managing downtime

Part 1: Professional downtime - 00:05:40

• Tackle smaller side tasks or other one-offs (i.e., design changes, small graphics, wording updates...web stuff)
• Organize information stores
• Storm up upcoming / forgotten tasks
• Iterate on non-current-project-related ideas, go through your backlog of half-baked designs
• Catch up on the industry - new releases, critical acclaims, bad stuff
• Poke a field you are not comfortable with, even if just to FAIL SPECTACULARLY

Intermission:  Brandon Strader - Murkan Supreme - Street Fighter 2 (OC ReMix)

Part 2: Personal downtime - 00:28:13

• Check out play-throughs of games you don’t own and will never buy / play - it’s interesting / funny to see (usually)
• Grab some tips about a game you’ve played a lot of
• Play some games!  Don’t stick to the genre you’re currently dev’ing, branch out a bit (or beat that one cocky-ass high score that’s laughing at you - past-you is a dick for being so awesome)  Poke a game you are not comfortable with, even if just to FAIL SPECTACULARLY