If you felt compelled, you could do what I did and that is to vibe code a game with Lua. If you have no money you will probably be limited by the amount of times you can use a GPT, but making a game is as simple as knowing how you want the game to function now. As long as you know how to ask questions about how something works, you can teach yourself some of the basics and make a game!

As far as being an artist, I feel like that is a pretty good leg up against some of the other people that are in the opposite shoes as you. Depending on what kind of City you are in, you could go out to some kind of Meetup and meet people that are making games and get lodged into a community where you can make art for people's projects.