The Restart Spiral: Why You Keep Restarting and Never Finish Your Game

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Are you stuck in tutorial hell, constantly restarting your game project, and never finishing anything? This video breaks down the Restart Spiral, the beginner game dev loop where you start a new project, follow a tutorial, hit one problem the tutorial never covered, then restart and convince yourself it was the smart move. It feels productive, but it quietly resets you to day one every time.

If you keep restarting your game when you get stuck, you will never ship a game. Real game development has no step by step path, and the moment you feel confused is usually the moment you are finally doing real learning. Tutorials often turn learning game development into passive learning, which creates an illusion of progress without the problem-solving skill you need to finish a game.

In this video I show you how to break the Restart Spiral with the Struggle Build Repeat method. You keep the same project and build one tiny mechanic you already half-remember, then you intentionally tweak it and break it for a short focused session, and when you get stuck you only Google one specific solution instead of switching projects. Over time, that active learning loop is what turns you from a tutorial watcher into a game developer who can actually finish and release a first game.

This works whether you use Unity, Godot, or Unreal, because the real problem is not the engine. The real problem is the learning loop that keeps you restarting instead of building.

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0:00 The Restart Spiral
0:23 The Loop That Stops You Shipping
2:01 Why Tutorials Don’t Teach You
3:46 The Fresh Start Trap
5:19 Why Real Projects Feel Impossible
7:35 Struggle Build Repeat Method
8:13 The Tiny Mechanic Challenge
9:50 Google One Specific Thing
11:14 Expand, Don’t Restart
11:40 The 60 Day Plan

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