Comment by snarf21
3 days ago
I have a suggestion for you. Try making a board game instead. No complex technology to learn, way different than already being burnt out from coding all day, you can iterate on the fly by writing on your prototype, some can be tested solo (but having some friends come over once a week isn't insurmountable and is very social), lots on online testing available using "no rules" engines that let you just move "objects" around (a little tech to learn but done in a few hours), etc.
If if your game never gets published, etc. you could have a game that you and your friends got countless hours of enjoyment from. I personally get a lot of enjoyment from it. Good luck!
Heh, I started working on a board game with a couple friends and then got caught up reading card descriptions from a shared Google Spreadsheet and generating images to work with Tabletop Simulator.
It's a different kind of work from my usual though, and it was fun to see my friends in awe that they could write arbitrarily many new cards and almost instantaneously see them in the game.