Literally, and for practical reasons: Nothing. Nothing pushes me to Dev, because I don't Dev anymore. Back when I was makerofthegames for the first couple years maybe, then for the next bit just from GMC Jam yes I devved. But my passions ended up lying elsewhere.
And that's fine!
Having a passion in general
at all is something to be admired. Sure, maybe it won't end up exactly where you're currently thinking,
..or, who knows..
..maybe it will..
, but at the very least, having energy and a drive to do something creative already puts you ahead of the crowd. Just make sure that if you lose the energy to make games specifically, you at least carry on with something creative. I'm extremely biased unfairly, but I believe wholeheartedly that a creative effort is more important than a non-creative effort.
I very rarely struggle with motivation for game dev, if anything I have the opposite problem. If I dont spend enough hours per week on my project or make decent progress I find myself getting real time-related anxiety.
This is a good problem to have. I mean, it's also bad, it means you're not able to utilize your productiveness.
You know what my advice is when you're underutilizing your productiveness? OK, so, you know you're very productive, right? You wouldn't have written that post if you were't productive, right? Come up with a new project, any project, that capitalizes on things you already know how to do. Something that will only challenge you very sparingly, something that since you already understand the base processes you can pump it out quickly, and even though you don't have much time you're still able to get something out at all which is important.
...
Of course,
if you're someone who has yet to acquire enough skill to know how to get something base out,
then I recommend surfing tutorials, looking at past GMC Jams, and being an active part of new ones.
I say.
Not having made a game in years.
Without any intention, literally without any intention of creating a
game anytime in the near future or otherwise.
I say.
I say while mostly drunk.
Makerofthegames has got your
ing back, alright? Remember that.