Can Game Development Be A Hobby? (Spoiler: No)

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Can Game Development Be A Hobby? (Spoiler: No)

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Oh honey, you thought game development could be a "hobby"? PLEASE! The top shows you joyfully balancing your YouTube channel with work and life, while the REALITY lurks below - your forgotten skeleton on the ocean floor, completely consumed by Twitch streaming and uploading to Itch.io! What started as "I'll just make a cute little game on weekends" has transformed into a 24/7 obsession where you haven't seen sunlight in WEEKS! Game dev doesn't want some of your time - it wants your SOUL! Your friends are sending search parties while you're debugging collision detection at 4AM muttering "just one more fix" for the 87th consecutive night!

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