Wow, that's really awesome for a self-taught person using GMS2 for the first time. I saw GM1 around before, but it didn't have the capabilities that I needed and I didn't want to drop that much money for it (I also didn't really have a "message" I wanted to say yet); however, I recently resolved myself to try to make games, because I have so many ideas, and I finally realized that I shouldn't have listened to my college advisor who discouraged me from my original dream of being a game developer (like in 2005 or something like that). So I'm kind of behind everyone else, but I think my experience with programming has thankfully helped me adapt faster to catch-up.