Great post and definitely useful tips! I tried tipping my toes into gamedev a couple years ago when I was home and pregnant - I took a C++ & Unreal Engine course on Udemy and was pretty into it until I started having issues with space on my drives, etc. I kind of stopped and didn't look back. Still, I feel like I would love to work on at least one game in my life, be it by writing code, designing or writing stories, and so on.