Game dev took my ability to have fun gaming.

Anybody else have this issue? I been developing for 6 months now. Loving it. Until I realized; i can't get myself to game the way I used to.

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The only way I can make sense of it is comparing it to when I learned guitar (17 years of guitar experience).

Very quickly upon learning music; i started to lose the magic of listening to music. Its like I am constantly deconstructing, and losing the ability to just hear things for their whole.

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Similarly with gaming; once I started learning the underlying mechanics of how games work; its like it took away the wow factor of games. Like a magician knowing how a trick works, so its nothing to him. Meanwhile the people watching the trick are amazed, BECAUSE they dont know how it works.

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Anybody else get this effect? I will say for music this went away eventually. Im wondering; is this normal?