Fun beard fact:
When I was in 4th grade, I was given a free writing assignment. Instead of doing something normal I decided to write an entire walkthrough for Star Fox 64 from memory of each path. My teacher asked me to cut it down to a certain amount of pages so that she could grade it so I stuck with the middle path.

That was the same year I wrote a short story about Sonic and Shadow racing each other and a ~200 page fantasy book that was basically a poorly disguised Zelda fan fiction. My teacher let me teach a little writing class once and I roasted some people not knowing that they probably wouldn't take it as healthy criticism lol. My b.

Actually, also the same year I found RPG Maker too. Before then, I would draw out entire games on paper. Each screen would be a different paper and the player character was a cut out you would move around.

Yeah I wasn't a normal kid. Truly.