Founder of Wonderful Elephant + jmtb02 Studios. Formally Armor Games CEO, previously at Kongregate, 100+ Flash games many of which featuring a little blue elephant
Age 38, He/Him
Game Developer
UC Davis
Northern California
Joined on 3/1/04
Posted by jmtb02 - November 11th, 2007
I run circles when I drink Red Bull or Monster. When I drink it at work, I don't know what it is, but I can sit down and blaze through hundreds of lines of code in a matter of hours.
Is it the energy, the sugar? The alertness? I can't tell.
But anyway, I feel fidgety and giddy, but I can sit down and get a huge amount of work done... more than normal. I would have thought the opposite.
They're not really healthy though..
full throtle is good
I've never dranken energy drinks while working.. I don't honestly like the taste of coffee so I generally stay away from it. My bud works at the 7/11 a few blocks away maybe I'll grab myself a few cans of RockStar, Beaver Buzz, and whatever else I can find and run a test on this over the next few days to see if they really do give enouph energy to work for long periods.
I spend usually 3 all-nighters on NG on weekends anyway so I got the time. :P
Also: Have you ever done anything not nice in your life Mr.Nice Guy? :3
I'm not totally convinced that they have such a big impact on your energy, I think that the placebo effect plays the biggest role when drinking them.
..or maybe it's just the sour taste they usually have that 'wakes' you up =P
awesome dude
I get that way on tea. Hmm...
I like the Monster coffee drinks. I'll go through two on a bad morning.
Maybe it's your spinage o_O, keep drinking it, we want moar games :D!
Gives you a burst of energy for a while then you feel weary after?
Red Bull and Monster make me sleepy...
O_o
JUSTIN-BAILEY
Maybe it just for some reason helps you concentrate.