Is this a bad way to initialise a struct in C?

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In my C program, I have a function that looks like this:

GameState cc_newGame(void) {
    // Create a new game state
    GameState* game = (GameState*)NULL;

    // Set the fields to their default values
    game->tick = 0;

    return *game;
}

Will creating a struct this way cause issues in my program?

EDIT: Thanks to a comment by u/whyeventrymore, I was able to figure out how to do this using malloc.

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