Yeah, some people who complain have never tried to make anything. Even a short story can take tens of hours to write, and writing is something you can do anywhere, anytime, just pull out your notepad or phone and start writing. You have to actually set aside specific time to make a game, and it competes with everything else:
- 8 hours of sleep
- 8 hours of your actual work
- family time
- meals
- chores
- some time for yourself to recharge your batteries
If you're lucky, you can get two hours of work on a weekday. Maybe ten more over the weekend (but that's unsustainable in the long run). Twenty hours a week. How much money is having a second part-time job worth to you? Yes, it's a job you love, but if you can't get a breakthrough that lets you quit your day job and concentrate on making interactive porn, scaling your effort down to 10 hours a week starts looking more and more reasonable, especially when it pays less than a minimum wage.
