Finish It! Motivation & Processes For Video Game Development

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GameDev.tv Team,Rick Davidson

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1 - Your High Level Vision

1 - Section 1 Introduction.mp4

04:21

2 - Course Workbook.mp4

03:14

2 - Finish It Work Book.txt

3 - What Is Your Project.mp4

10:11

4 - Not A Waste Of Time.mp4

02:01

5 - Why This Project.mp4

11:09

6 - Your Powerful Why.mp4

05:22

7 - Should Want Have To.mp4

06:13

8 - GameDevtv Community Forum for Finish It Discussions.txt

8 - Sharing And Asking Questions.html

9 - Role Models.mp4

08:39

10 - How Will You Finish.mp4

07:02

11 - Changes And Gaps.mp4

08:24

12 - The Toughest Question.mp4

02:54

13 - Intention Vs Commitment.mp4

03:14

14 - Ballpark Milestones.mp4

09:12

15 - Note On The Workbook.mp4

02:24

2 - Getting Unblocked

16 - Section 2 Introduction.mp4

01:05

17 - Why We Procrastinate.mp4

01:47

18 - Clear Your Cache.mp4

15:03

19 - Honest Assessment.mp4

05:11

20 - Procrastination Pattern.mp4

07:11

21 - VNT Technique.mp4

11:19

22 - 1 Minute Reminder 1.mp4

01:01

23 - The 4Letter Word.mp4

09:59

24 - Why Am I Blocked.mp4

04:24

25 - Code Mentor.txt

25 - Contacting-someone-to-ask-for-help-email-Example.txt

25 - Contacting-someone-to-ask-for-help-email-template.txt

25 - Deviant Art.txt

25 - GameDevTV Community Site.txt

25 - Game Dev Mentors.txt

25 - Indie Game Developers Group.txt

25 - Stack Overflow.txt

25 - Upwork.txt

25 - Who Can You Ask.mp4

20:15

26 - Killing Distractions.mp4

13:46

27 - Your Workflow.mp4

06:45

28 - Work Or Dont Work.mp4

02:18

29 - Finding Flow.mp4

10:40

30 - Being Specific.mp4

05:09

31 - Setting Good Objectives.html

3 - Building Momentum

32 - Section 3 Introduction.mp4

01:45

33 - Ricks RPG Project Mindmap.txt

33 - Work Breakdown Structure.mp4

08:43

34 - Single Most Important.mp4

05:24

35 - What Is Agile.mp4

08:15

36 - User Stories.mp4

04:48

37 - Skin In The Game.mp4

08:10

38 - Accountability Buddy.mp4

06:43

39 - Inputs Not Outputs.mp4

09:46

40 - Change Your Environment.mp4

03:28

41 - Make The Commitment.mp4

07:25

4 - Building Habits

42 - Section 4 Introduction.mp4

03:02

43 - Share Your Project On GameDevtv Community.txt

43 - Your MVP.mp4

06:30

44 - Create Your Backlog.mp4

09:35

45 - EventBased Milestones.mp4

09:46

45 - GameDevtv Community Commitments page to share your commitment.txt

46 - Beeminder.txt

46 - Committing To Inputs.mp4

03:45

47 - Sharing Is Caring.mp4

05:55

48 - Who To Share With.mp4

09:51

49 - GameDevtv Community Commitments page to share your commitment.txt

49 - How To Share Projects.mp4

19:07

49 - Indie Game Developers Group.txt

50 - Negative Feedback.mp4

03:59

51 - Iterate Not Zig Zag.mp4

08:21

52 - Dealing With Scope Creep.mp4

06:58

53 - Analysis Paralysis.mp4

10:04

54 - Being Concrete.mp4

08:48

5 - Getting Results

55 - Section 5 Introduction.mp4

02:05

56 - A Quick Note.mp4

01:37

57 - What If We Ask What If.mp4

11:19

58 - The Four Whys.mp4

07:23

59 - Left Side Right Side.mp4

07:25

60 - Marathon Not Sprint.mp4

01:53

61 - Manage Your Physiology.mp4

10:59

62 - Marketing Your Product.mp4

08:51

63 - When To Stop.mp4

19:57

6 - Continuous Improvement

64 - Section 6 Introduction.mp4

04:00

65 - Using Your Workbook.mp4

02:57

66 - More To Come.html

67 - Being Driven.mp4

04:17

67 - David Goggins Driven.txt

68 - State Of Work.mp4

01:58

7 - Continuing Your GameDev Journey

69 - BONUS LECTURE.html

Description

Tools & Techniques For Staying Motivated & Productive When Creating Video Games Or Apps.

What You'll Learn?

Specific strategies for finishing your technical and creative projects.
Methods for identifying why you are getting blocked on your project and what to do about it.
The What-Why-Who-How-When process for professionally completing projects.
Agile development processes for planning, scheduling and completing tasks.

Who is this for?

Anyone who could use some help and support to stay focused, motivated and productive while working on their project.

What You Need to Know?

You should have a game, an app or a course that you are either currently working on or plan to start.

You want to be more efficient, productive or motivated when working on your creative or technical projects.

More details

Description
If you have a technical or creative project that you want to finish (or start!), this course will help you to identify why you are getting blocked, how to stay on track and ultimately help you FINISH IT (your project that is).
We often use the word "motivation"Â to summarise the process of staying focused and getting our work done. But finishing challenging projects requires far more than just motivation - it requires systems, strategies, tools and planning.Â
In this course we start at the high level and explore how this project fits into your overall career or life goals. We look at what, exactly, your final product will look like and why on earth you are even working on your project. Often its not for very powerful reasons which can lead to some funky unproductive behaviour on our part.
We continue to drill down through your project to look at what are your very next actions, where you are blocked, what you plan to accomplish this week, this month and the next 90 days. You will learn techniques such as:
The Very Next Thing tecnhique
The Clear Your Cache technique
Your own personal approach to Finding Flow
The Work-Or-Dont-Work philosophy
The Work Breakdown Structure technique
The Accountability Buddy approach
And many more techniques for success
The goal of this course is very simple: Get you to Finish your project.
Some examples of projects that our students are working to finish are:
Video game project
App development project
Portfolio building project
Online course / study project
Looking for specific technical content? Check out our comprehensive range of game development courses.
The course follows a step-by-step Workbook which will guide you through your specific set of circumstances and help you finish your project.
The instructors of this course have spent years studying and teaching personal development. They have completed many projects as well asÂ not completed many projects and have an acute understanding of what it takes to achieve success when you are in charge of your own milestones and deadlines.
You might be working solo on your project, but you don't have to do it alone. Come and get plugged into our communities of amazing developers on Facebook (nearly 20k), in our own TA-curated Community (17k views/day), and our student chat group (10k live at any one time).
We hope you allow us to contribute to the completion of your project!Â
Come join usÂ now, you won't be disappointed!
Who this course is for:
Anyone who could use some help and support to stay focused, motivated and productive while working on their project.

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GameDev tv was created to help anyone learn how to develop, design and sell indie games. We have some of the best-selling and highest rating game development courses on Udemy. We have more than a million students, and our aim is to make and maintain high quality courses that are engaging and entertaining for them.GameDev tv offers comprehensive courses on Unity, Blender, Unreal, coding in C#, C++ and more. Looking to learn about a topic that we don't cover? Get plugged into our communities of amazing developers on Facebook (nearly 20k), in our own TA-curated Community (17k views/day), and our student chat group (10k live at any one time).

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As an instructor, Rick has taught more than 1 million students, creating more than 20 of the most popular online courses here on Udemy. He is a founding partner of the GameDev-tv team whose mission is to helping aspiring game developers to create and grow.Rick has a long history of managing teams, growing businesses and teaching technology. For more than 10 years Rick worked within the video game industry as Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director, and Executive Producer, creating games for console, mobile, PC and Facebook. He founded an Indie game studio, Inspirado Games, which was acquired in 2012 by Electronic Arts / PopCap. He has worked on cool IPs such as Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat and created successful new IPs from scratch (such as "GardenMind" which was nominated for Canadian Game of the Year in the social / mobile category).As a qualified Career Coach, Rick has helped thousands of people achieve their dream of making games for a living - both as Indie Game Developers and as valuable game industry employees.Rick lives in Australia with his wife and 2 daughters. He likes to tell Dad jokes. You've been warned!

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