There are really good marketplaces for buying game assets.

Especially if you adopt a low poly style, you can get very far with bought meshes.

My go-to sites are CGTrader for meshes, SoundSnap for sounds.

I’ll have to look into it. If I ever put any amount of effort into one of these ideas, I don’t think I’d mind paying commission for some stuff either, but at the end of the day I’m just a guy who can write code ok and has some neat game ideas. I don’t have a massive budget for my side projects.

Creative assets are what's holding me back from pursuing a lot of my game ideas too.

Someone should make an AI to generate art and sound assets for those of us without the skills. That way I can just do something like spore where I feed it inputs and out pops a bitmap.

Someone I know mentioned wanting to do something similar to this. I guess the hard part is how to get the model to generate what you want and also generate it in the format you need.