{"id":91066,"date":"2019-03-29T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/339778"},"modified":"2019-03-29T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T22:24:00","slug":"video-how-devs-can-maintain-their-sanity-for-crunch-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/video-how-devs-can-maintain-their-sanity-for-crunch-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: How devs can maintain their sanity for crunch and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2018 GDC session, The Deep End Games&#8217; Amanda Gardner explains how developers can deal with difficult emotional states on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner presents fast and easy strategies for changing emotional&nbsp;states without having to take a &#8220;time out&#8221;, and leads a few short guided meditations that can take those&nbsp;from frazzled to fine in under 5 minutes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was an insightful talk that&#8217;s definitely still worth watching, so developers&nbsp;shouldn&#8217;t miss the&nbsp;opportunity to do so now that it&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aACSkV-xXF8\">freely available on the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/contact_us.php\">contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2018 GDC session, The Deep End Games&#8217; Amanda Gardner explains how developers can deal with difficult emotional states on the job. Gardner presents fast and easy strategies for changing emotional&nbsp;states without having to take a &#8220;time out&#8221;, and leads a few short guided meditations that can take those&nbsp;from frazzled to fine in under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}