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My biggest advice is to recognize that while one can learn a substantial amount of the basics of web development in 3-6 months, the same is less true for games. Because you could spend 3-6 months learning basic 3D modeling, or 3-6 months on the game programming part, or 3-6 months on game networking.

So there are games you can make over 3-6 months that will give you a tiny foundation in a bunch of different areas, but it's just way easier to get a little taste of React and taste of working with a database and a taste of a backend framework and a taste of HTML+CSS over a few months than it is to get a taste of all these different parts of game dev. Or at least it felt that way to me. So easy to get sucked into the wormhole learning about just one aspect of game dev for months, or letting scope creep or an over-ambitious design distract you.

So even though everyone says to aim for the world's dumbest, smallest project first, and then everyone immediately ignores that advice, I still have to look at my own experiences and pain from that lesson and recommend doing so for you as well.

There are a lot of courses that take you through creating an entire small game and hold your hand through the process, and I would recommend doing one of those first. Whether its an Unreal or Unity or Godot thing or whatever. Because jumping in head first and learning what you need on the fly from google and youtube can be easier from a motivation POV but putting in the work to follow an entire course that teaches you how to make an entire game will give you a broader view and help you avoid getting bogged down writing shaders for 6 months. Ofc, if you want to just follow passion and get sucked in, then off to those types of rabbitholes you go.