20. Develop Games

Assuming you have the skills – whether you’re officially qualified as such or self-taught – you could develop games yourself and make money from it. Of course, developing games isn’t strictly making money from playing them, but what better way to know what makes a good game than by playing them a lot?

Once you’ve developed a game, you can make money through both game sales and in-game purchases. For example, Minecraft was developed solely by Markus Persson under his company Mojang – which was ultimately sold to Microsoft for a whopping $2.5 billion.

If you do have the skills to do this, creating the games and testing them yourself can be just as fun as playing them.