A lot of the advice given to beginning game developers is exactly to put out a few generic arcade games at first. It's a great way to learn a stack and actually

A lot of the advice given to beginning game developers is exactly to put out a few generic arcade games at first. It's a great way to learn a stack and actually ship something, plus the end product is instantly recognizable, and the barrier to entry in terms of graphics can be quite low. Once you're comfortable in your output and skills, doing more original artistic work is a great next step, but many aspiring devs get hung up on doing something awesome and never finishing it at all. (I know, because I made the same mistake, despite knowing all this!)