Bitsy style game in godot and some ways I deal with self doubt

I have been working on making a bitsy style game in Godot since January and 13 prototypes/more completed games later I have finished it. Its a minute in length and I'm happy with how it turned out.

I'll keep this brief. I had a goal to get a job as a gamedev and I started to really feel like I was not good enough. Before I didn't care that much if my games were bad but now that I thought that people would see my games and accept or reject me because of them caused me to doubt myself a lot.

Some things I do. In no order:

1. I work on internal problems

   I think my doubt is justified and don't do anything about it but it completely takes over my judgment. I have some mental health skills I use and I research exercises to do for my self doubt and it helped. (check out  the 'Feeling great' youtube channel)   

2. I don't change genre

   I build up a lot of knowledge and code in narrative games and I changed to make something challenging and I was a beginner again. I changed back and I felt better and I wanted to go deeper into the interactive fiction genre.

3. I iterate, learn and take things from my prototypes

   I used to completely throw my prototypes away and now I try and apply what I learnt to my next prototype. The art style from this game came from previous ones as well as the concept. 

4. I don't let people play my games

   In a previous version of the book 'game design workshop' by Tracy Fullerton it mentioned playtesting a personal game may cause harm because if someone  doesn't like it you feel like you need to change it but you shouldn't because it is your art and it's there for you to express yourself.

This can't be done with every game. And I'm planning to playtest my next game more but I didn't playtest this one.

   5. I study more

   I know how to program and I think I don't need to google things and I can just jump in but when it came to game design, writing and poetry I wasted a bunch of time because I thought I knew enough already.

6. I stop and come back later

   I took a break from this project and did a poetry ttrpg jam and that helped.

I hope I can do better my next game and thanks for reading and checking the game out.

Here's a older version of the tree from the start of the game: