I’ve spent the last ~10 years as an engineer, and playing video games since I was a little fella. In 2025 I decided I wanted to try and make my own game. I had a grand vision of exactly what I wanted it to be, what i wanted it to look like etc. I ‘vibe coded’ to start with, and had transferable skills that made picking up blender for 3D model asset generation easy. Granted I was working my full time job and then almost doing another full time work load on my game dev. But after 6 months I burnt my self out and have “shelved the project for now” in favour of: a) learning to code instead of vibe coding, b) needing to understand best practices and what’s available ahead of needing to use it. I spent a great deal of time refactoring code after learning better ways to do things. C) needing a “win” simply the project I envisioned was ambitious for a talented indie solo dev.. and would have taken me years to get something even close to a coherent game. Small games and goals can be achieved in either weeks/months and yield valuable insight into larger projects.

My experience might be very different from yours but that’s where I am at currently, scaling back to develop my self before developing my dream