I don’t have any energy or motivation to play games anymore, even though I used to play avidly.

That sounds like me. You know what was happing to me. I was diagnosed with depression. I’m not a doctor so I can’t diagnose you over a internet forum post, but you might want to to see a doctor for potential health issues, or perhaps you might be dealing with a mood issue.

I used to write and worldbuilding for my story, but ideas have run out and I just have no energy to continue writing. That’s probably due to depression.

Asking for the meaning of life? Lemmy’s great and all, but I don’t think I’ll find it here lmao

The meaning of life is what you want it to be. The universe has not given us one.

Biologically? It’s to reproduce. For your DNA to continue existing (or at least part of it).

Evolutionary? For out species to survive and go on conlonizing the solar system, galaxy, universe… etc.

Technologically? To achieve immortality.

Philosophically?

To find happiness. Do what’s pleasurable to you (Hedonism).

To be a good person. Make the world a better place (even if only slightly).

To acquire more knowledge for yourself and share the knowledge to progress humanity. (Eg: Conduct science experiments, find fossils, identify unknown species (there are still a lot of unidentified species, oddly enough), etc.)

If this is to close for comfort for rule 3, feel free to delete mods

There’s also another community where you can just talk !chat@beehaw.org life and stuff.

Also, I know you are busy with college and stuff, but when I had an existential crisis, I found this show called The Good Place, it helped me process some thoughts regarding existence and stuff. You might want to watch it when you find the time to do so.