After a long journey, I've reached a deep burnout

Short summary

A self-taught indie game developer shares an 8-month journey through online communities, discovering they're driven by learning itself rather than shipping projects. Social media metrics obsession, over-reliance on AI/Discord, game jam competition stress, and repeated boundary failures triggered severe burnout; they now question whether to continue development.

• •Indie dev realized they prefer the learning process over actual coding and shipping
• •Social algorithms, external metrics, and community competition became addictive and unhealthy
• •Cycles of boundary-setting followed by relapse led to burnout and self-doubt

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