We all start somewhere and we all have someone that usually grabs your attention and you think they are a celebirty or a rockstar. Sometimes its not that amazing and you don't think they are a rockstar persue, but its that one thing that a programmer, a gamer, a host, an article, a video game, or an animator has done with a unique twang which just inspired you to do what you do.

I am abig web developer person. I love the web, I love making custom program and 90% of the stuff I make never sees the light of day. But to me thats OK cause I like to make it. While brushing up on my VML skills. (don't laugh, DHTML was the in thing at the time), I stumbled across a game portal known as Newgrounds. The first game that I played there was PICO. I was amazed thinking this was all done in Actionscript and I quickly learned it was from a technology known as Macromedia Flash 4/5.

You mean I could put images together, add music, objects, buttons and make games? It had its own IDE, a time line, and you could script. Amazing. I tried to learn it but I just couldn't get into it. I started then to just play with more and more website making stuff until I stumbled across Edmund McMillen an animator and small game/clicky game creator. I watched his simple animations and played his little games more and more and everytime I looked at it, it made me smile. The Art Style was so unique and awesome to me to see something so violently orchestrated(sp) yet smooth with results that made me smile. Soon after I started to animate with Flash again, but still had a problem making my own games.

Not to long ago while lurking what McMillen was doing, I heard he created a game known as Super Meat Boy. Of course, my favorite artist made a game! Of course I would buy it. So I played it. I want to thank Team Meat as they pretty much was what insipired me to just rough it out, keep working at it, and start making my own game of course.

To stick back to the topic and not make a fan boy post for someone, what insipired you? What was the one thing which made you go, you know what I am going to stick to it, and I am going to finish this? What made that little click in your head go to ON for making games?

-Mayple