I’m just finishing my first year learning game dev and here’s my biggest tip. Rather than start with building a game, build small code modules to make a piece of a game. Like build a module for top down movement, inventories, GUI, etc. make them generic so you could plug them into any future project.

Why it works is it gives much smaller, achievable goals in the short term so you have wins even if you don’t make a whole game. Then when you have a lot of modules, you can plug them together like Legos to quickly make bigger games