Hello there 
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hope this place is okay for posting stuff like this, but anyways here go:
So hey I’m Tarvish from Germany and this is my story:
I have a background in computer science where I am also working for a few years now (unrelated industry to game development). Last year I thought it’s time to switch things up a bit and since I’m also an passionate gamer I thought let’s merge those things together.
The initial spark came from when I played Subnautica: Below Zero for the first time. It bought it spontanousley last year and didn’t know it’s predecessor back then neither did I watch any videos of it before. And well it was such a great experience what a great jounrey - and I thought to myself: I want to make a game, create an experience, too!
A few weeks later I stumpled upon this video about the development of the original Subnautica game and I finally decided to start and bought a few courses from GameDev.tv including the Unreal C++ coruse which I already finished and currently I’m repeating it for the refreshed UE5 topics.
Besides Subnautica I’m a huge fan of Factorio and the Anno Games (games about work, how typical 
). So the game idea that motivates me and drives me forward doing all this evloves somewhere from or in between those games. Writing down all ideas about game mechanics and how to implement them in UE is a lot of fun for me, but I have to slow down myself a little here, too^^.
That’s about my stroy I would really like to hear what your motivation for game development is?
And if you share a similar motivation then me (even if it is so slightly) then I would like to chat with you about it, maybe we can have call in discord and potentially we can even team up for something great! 