What got you interested in game development?

When I was younger, I always enjoyed playing video games, and I thought it would be pretty cool if I could make one. When I was around 10 years old, I started out making a few small programs in Visual Basic (keyloggers, screen recorders, etc…) I enjoyed this quite a bit. At the time, I was still experimenting with other software like Game Maker & Engine001. For the next few years, I was still playing around with Visual Basic, and at the age of 14, I started to learn AS3. After around a year of working on Android Apps in flash, I was nearly fluent, and had published a few apps. I was very proud of my progress as far as computer programming goes, and I decided that AS3 wasn’t a low enough language to make any game with potential, so I started to learn some C++ on YouTube with a tutorial series that someone made. After around a month of messing around with C++, I still wasn’t feeling like I was ready to attempt to make any sort of game, or really anything for that matter. While I was on some forum for c++, someone mentioned that companies pay big bucks for those who knew C++ and UE4, I just ignored this post. After a long while of thinking, I realized that my dreams of making an awesome 3D game in just C++ were pretty unrealistic if I wanted it to happen within 3 years, so I took a look at Unreal Engine 4, this was around March. After doing some research, I realized that UE4 was the right thing for me, and coincidentally, this was 2-3 days after they made UE4 free. I have to say that I am very happy that I made this move, and I am excited for what’s ahead.