I first made some games in eighth grade computer class using qbasic; a rocket ship of words, hang man, things like that, that's the first programming I can remember.
That was in the 90's, by 2006 I was in a rock and roll band and had learned some web design in college and was using what I knew to make a site for the band.
The band had the idea of making a game, so that there would be something unique on the site. I found flash, and specifically a rickety program called swish max, lol, and using nothing but if else statements and a very procedural pattern I made a ship shooter, I think I stayed up for 24 straight hours making that game, I was hooked. And that also happened to be around the start of the glory days for flash, so I went fully into the flash game dev world, eventually learning to code in AS3 with classes and interfaces; actual programming, which also propelled me into other languages like Java and C++.
And since then I've just really enjoyed making games, playing them and having others play them.