I wanted to learn game development instead of playing because I got bored. I used to do programming as a hobby at hs, but I havent coded for 18+ months. Now I am back, slowly learning and trying not to use ai (hard)
I am 19 and I have a blue collar job, decent pay but all my money goes to savings for an unrelated reason, I left with little money to spend. I have 4-5 hours everyday for this hobby.
Should I start see it as a side part time job? Maybe save enough to buy an used old civic after couple of years? I watched some youtube videos about it and it may be doable, I am not trying to become the 1% or the next schedule 1/stardew valley/minecraft. I am unaware of the current market what are my expectations should be.
I dont have anyone to feed ahah, what harm to try right?
Anything you do for fun stops being fun the minute you do it for money.
That’s mainly because when you do anything for money you usually have to do all kinds of other crap that isn’t fun at all.
I think that is only partly true. I’m in the creative field and field and while there are parts of the job, part of projects, clients etc that are certainly not fun I’m still overall very happy that I chose this path.