The Puzzle Works! Time-Consuming Problems -> Simple Solutions

Catching up on homework! No longer tired! Feeling productive again! It is hard to keep being productive when I keep burning out, but I am trying my best to balance everything out. I take time working on things that I enjoy working on, and I also have been spending time playing games. This is a well needed mental break, and got myself feeling more ready to work on stuff, which is why I was able to catch up on homework again. This week I have been working on various projects, cooking, cleaning, and moving around a lot. I uploaded 4 hours worth of podcast, and have been hyping up myself to work on projects. Everything is a mindset. I try to make finishing work a game, whether this is thinking about tasks in a different way or by doing a lot of “sprints.” Everything has been difficult, but that makes it even more rewarding to work through it.

Project TempestWinds

The sliding puzzle is now working!! It was very strange, but all we needed to do was change the shader. It took a lengthy amount of time to figure this out. On top of that, I worked to get a section of building in the game, and fixed some merge conflicts. This game is coming together, and we should be able to have the demo available soon. I will definitely have more time after tomorrow to work on this.

Acxiom

We are continuing looking into my automation projects and taking the next steps! I created documentation for my projects, showed someone everything I do each week, and they said we should be able to put it directly into our automation system fairly easily. This means I will no longer need to manually run the script! I will just have to keep an eye on it so that nothing bad happens. Also, there is a part that I need to work on automating quicker that I will need to run fairly soon. This might be a task that I have to wait on though.

What’s Coming Up?

• Getting a demo ready for our client
• Show our client where we are
• Continue working on a better landing page for this blog.
• Change “Projects” page to be a portfolio.
• Edit all the pages connected to the WIP landing page.

TL;DR

• I have been working through my tiredness.
• I am no longer as tired now!
• Burnout is hard to avoid this semester, but I’m doing my best
• I have given myself more relaxation time
• The sliding puzzle is working, I started work on the “building”
• Progress towards further automation is underway at Acxiom