Ask HN: What do you do when you get stuck while working alone?
I'm in the process of learning Obj-C and the cocos2d framework in my free time after work. I'm building a game incrementally.
I spent about 3 hours troubleshooting why one of my layers was not displaying sprites while another layer would even though they were seemingly identical. Turns out that by overwriting the init function to enable touch for the layer I overwrote something that dictates sprite behavior (seems obvious in hindsight).
This led me to ask, how do you guys manage bugs and problems when you're on your own and inexperienced?
I spent about 3 hours troubleshooting why one of my layers was not displaying sprites while another layer would even though they were seemingly identical. Turns out that by overwriting the init function to enable touch for the layer I overwrote something that dictates sprite behavior (seems obvious in hindsight).
This led me to ask, how do you guys manage bugs and problems when you're on your own and inexperienced?