[phil917]

I developed/published mobile games for awhile during and immediately after college. I think my games saw somewhere in the ballpark of 500,000 downloads and I made "OK" income from them for 1 - 2 years (roughly on par with a minimum wage job in the US).

I briefly considered going full-time into solo game dev. But once I got my first "real" job offer after college, I quickly let go of that idea.

Many years later, as a SaaS founder now, I have a strong itch to get back into game development. One of my dream goals is to some day exit my company and then comfortably/leisurely "retire" into a career as a solo game dev.

[robertlagrant]

That is definitely not the world's worst plan. I've started building a tiny, rubbish Pong clone in PixiJS for my son to play with me, and it is pretty intoxicating.