Regarding the OPs comments on the non-transferability of learning Godot and Unity to marketable jobs skills as compared to learning about AWS, GCP etc. in your

Regarding the OPs comments on the non-transferability of learning Godot and Unity to marketable jobs skills as compared to learning about AWS, GCP etc. in your spare time - I somewhat agree with this. A potential way to make learning game programming potentially more useful on the job/marketable is when you get into the multiplayer gaming aspects of game development. There's a ton of realtime networking concepts (web sockets for realtime chat, etc.) as well as potential investigations into cloud management and realtime databases for multiplayer game state/sync etc. that could be useful during a technical interview. It might even be that multiplayer games are probably on the leading edge of the application of some of this technology and would give you a leg up compared to other candidates. There's also the potential you could end up with a more social game that broadens the potential audience for the game in terms of players and code contributors. Specifically with godot: Godot Multiplayer Docs https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/networking/index.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/networking/... Godot with Firebase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDNk7BzOGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDNk7BzOGc