Hobby programming

I was on my way home from out of town today and I was thinking how strange it is to be a hobby coder.

Most of my coding takes place in 20-30 minute intervals when I have a bit of spare time. Depending on work I sometimes only get a change to sit down for 10 minutes a couple times throughout the day to put down a line of code or two for a function I've been working on.

It seems like a really wierd way to go but at the same time it's pretty productive. There's nothing like only having time for a few lines to make those few lines count.

It almost seems stranger yet to be able to put a good 6-8 hours straight coding or programming in general (planning, debugging and whatnot). Once in awhile I'll get around to devoting 3-4 hours of straight work and I find those always end up being the times when I spend  an hour and a half running through call stacks and engine source codes only to learn that I really just mucked up a variable. Always the optimist, however; I always find when I'm knee deep in engine source I always learn something neat that changes the way I look at my design.

As an indie developer without a budget, I've got that white hot image in my mind of when I get enough games under my belt to stick it out at home full time, 3-6 hours a few days a week and make ends meet.

But for now, I'm loving what I've got.

Cheers.