Does anyone else spend most of their hours contemplating on ideas and game design? This is how I spend most of my day, while driving, at work, etc, and a lot of it is involuntary. I’m not worried at all with this habit, as it’s something I truly enjoy and have a passion for. Some say its an obsession, maybe it is. As long as I make sure I take breaks and make sure it doesn’t affect work negatively, however, I don’t see the harm.
Anyway, I’m just wondering if others share this habit.
Yes but my ideas spread across the mediums of game, film and animation. I think it’s a good thing!
It could well be obsessive, but almost everyone is obsessive about something. Soap operas, reality shows, the color pink, football, model trains, Justin Bieber, Michael Buble, garden gnomes. As long as it’s not affecting your work, family and friends, I’'d say there is no harm.
I wouldn’t call it an obsession, but in everyday life I often see things and immediately start thinking of how they could possibly made into games.
It is what we do, creating virtual kingdoms and universes inside our minds. Our idea of a ‘perfect’ world gives us the drive to push forward to simulate life in our thoughts. We always want to make our virtual kingdom a place of paradise, and by doing so, we give our utmost dedication and commitment to form these ideas and try to implement them into reality. We get simple satisfaction just by thinking about it.
But of course, the downsides of a virtual kingdom is that we’ve distorted reality and fantasy to the audiences and ourselves who experience our own creations, oddly enough that gives us a form of cognition that leaves us morbid about our reality. Hence, the idea that we can be obssessed into the power to create, the power to control life and death in a world where we can safely play god, that we push ourselves to form the fantasy that we want to live in.
That is our greatest strength and our weaknessess as game developers.
obsession is the base of all passions , its what drives people to do great things and because doing great things require a lot of work, only an obsession is capable of managing that kind of task, a person without passion is dead inside and doesnt have any future in this life
but definitely , one thing is being passionate about your work and other is obssesive compulsive disorder
passionate about your work : good
eating only 12 perfectly aligned and symmetrically distributed peas : bad
Perfectly healthy so long as it doesn’t break your sleep pattern or present a distraction when your attention needs to be elsewhere. My wife and I might be watching tv, and I’ll be there with the iPad browsing forums and looking what everyone else is doing in my field, half watching. A gentle reminder of the need to switch off and relax is often all it takes. This is a common trait in people who achieve. Embrace it.
I think I’m weird for doing this 
I’m more concerned about how my AI will turn out or what my next level design will be than my Geom. Homework
I think its great though.
Passion:
-you start thinking about your work the entire day.
Obsession:
-you dream with your work.
Dangerous Obsession:
-you even forget to eat properly, or even dress or shave.
Limit of the insanity.
-you are stuck in a loop.
The “loop” is pretty dangerous, you are neither trying to solve some problem nor getting out of it.
Both.
Guess I’m at passion then 
I don’t think anyone has gotten to “loop” with game design, but who knows…
Yeah, infinite loops can be nasty things 
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I pretty much think about game dev all the time. I’m in the same boat. So long as it isn’t interfering with other things you love in your life, I would say that its ok.
I’m beginning to think that we’re obsessed with our obsessions in games. =/
I do the same thing, but unfortunately, the time’s i’ve tried to bring my longrunning awsome #1 ideas into reality, they are too monumental to finish. I get a big chunk of the artwork done and then start to touch on the programming and 3 months have passed and i realize, I’m about 1/100th of the way finished. =( Thinking of ideas isn’t the problem. It’s implementing them.
Personally, I’d call it a hobby and passion, although at times it would be labelled as “obsession” by my girlfriend. But… whatever baby, me and my mind are a package deal! Suck it up or get out!
Glad I’m not the only one. I think I’m progressing great, the game seems to get itself done as I easily shell out tons Awesome artwork. Then I touch on the coding. 3 months will little progress in scripting, one thing leads to another, motivation is lost…
I always see stuff and then convert them to games. Just a passion.