I mean, it's either that or I quit software development completely; it would be a shame to throw away two decades of experience in the field.
you could have chosen indy/solo dev in general. solo game dev in my understanding is very hard to make a living in.
The itch I want to scratch is that I'm on Linux, and our native image editing apps are very clunky, or you have to spend a weekend every time reacquainting yourself with ImageMagick.
The other project in the back of my head is a font repository, manager and downloader for Linux. It's an unserved niche, and there is no popular central repository of fonts, despite a large majority of them are released with permissive licenses. I just want to be able to do `font-app install Inter Iosevka "IBM Plex"` and they appear under ~/.local/share/fonts