As a developer making a 'high stakes' game how is your work/life balance when you know there is so much riding on everything you do?asked by DeltaOhio

That is a, that is a very intense question. And I may be the wrong person to answer this question. Striking a work life balance when you're working on something you're passionate about, is incredibly difficult. Prioritising life is very difficult to do. We are all very passionate about what we're working on here.We're working for someone who is also very passionate about what he is creating, and I think it rubs off on all of us. We all want to be here until we know and this thing needs to be done. There is so much to do, and so much we want to do, I rarely go home and feel like I accomplished everything I planned for, for that day. But I do feel like I made a chunk, I've gotten a chunk doneGaige Hallman: That's the best feeling. You feel like you made a difference that day and you're ready for the next one.

That's right, that's right. So sometimes you just got to put your pencil down and go home because you've been here so long. Sometimes you have to plan life. Make sure you take a vacation, make sure you use some of that PTO time that we've got, those wonderful benefits. Sometimes hey you got to put in all the hours and do what you got to do what you got to do. It's really tough, I don't know, It's hard to explain when you're working on something you love. When do you want to stop?I think the goal is, you want to do something you love so much, that you never want to stop doing it! So we have to force ourselves even more to take a break, step away from it, go have fun, go do a team event, have a little holiday party. Whatever the case might be, go out see a movie have a break when you can.

I think you've been a big part of that too. Like since you came on board the environment has definitely improvedEKD: Cool, thank you. And then on another note, I think to speak to this question. The Management team, the Executive team, they're incredibly supportive on just life happening. If something occurs, or something goes on, you know they've got your back and you can take the time you need to make sure life's sorted out, and it just seems like, and I know this from the leadership side of me.We are always proactively trying to look at: are people burning out?, Are they working too hard?, Is it what they're working on what they should be working on?, and how can we simplify that to make their lives better?, when do we tell them to just go home, be away, take time off. Because those are all the things we're trying to look out forGH: That just happened, I remember earlier this week when trying to work on 2.4 Forest and Sean kept telling me "Go home, you've got to go home".

That's right. So we try to do it for ourselves but then for those that we are also responsible for we also try to take care of them. The ultimate goal is to not crunch and if we're doing our job and we have a good understanding of the schedule, which I say it but it it's very hard to do! It is trying to get reduced any kind of crazy over time needed. Be able to do your job within the hours allotted to you that's fair and equal to your, whereever you live but also for our mental state. The reason those exist, it gets to the point of diminishing returns.You've got to be healthy and if something happens CIG totally supports it and i've seen that happen time and time again even since i've been here. When I hurt myself I had the support of Chris and those to just heal and get back to where you need to be and then come back to work and go from there.